Tag Archives: Private Mountain Guiding

Guided Mountain Guiding

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Mid March had Gary and American client Paul head into Bevan Col and glacier trek across to Collin Todd Hut to spend the night in preparation for a guided ascent of Mt Aspiring.  The weather was a little tricky in the morning, but after  1 hr delay for the mist to clear, the climbing day commenced. The full shipowner ridge and full NW ridge was the route( and standard at this time of year).  It was an 11 hr day , successfully summited and great satisfaction for this climb of one of NZ’s classic and moderately challenging peaks. Pauls previous climbing experience over the years in the USA was evident and added alot to the enjoyment and success of the climb. Well done Paul. What a great thing to do in your early days of retirement..

The team then flew out and next day did some local rock climbing – Paul rekindling his passion and skills for this, and then followed up the next day with  a traverse of the remarkables – a super classic alpine rock traverse, before Gary dropped Paul off in Queenstown.

Great Autumn non busy climbing conditions. A great 5 days of Alpinism

Summit pose on Mt Aspiring, Autumn 2019 NZ Southern Alps

Lunch time on Single Cone, classic NZ alpine rock climbing traverse

Private Swiss Mountain Guiding Lagginhorn

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Over the weekend, Gary and Anand climbed the classic 4010m Swiss peak, the Lagginhorn.  Mainly PD alpine rock, with crampons being worn on the last hour of the ascent. A dusting of fresh snow and a very breezy and fresh  North wind greeted them on the summit  slopes. A great vista was quickly admired as it was below zero degrees  on the summit and the wind chill made for a short summit stop.

Private Swiss summit mountain guiding - Anand ontop the summit of the Lagginhorn 4010m, Switzerland

Private Swiss summit mountain guiding – Anand ontop the summit of the Lagginhorn 4010m, Switzerland

 

Switzerland Guiding

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July and August , there is still a bit of space available to book IFMGA mountain guide Gary Dickson for some mountain guiding or a climbing instruction course in the Swiss alps.

Warm summer alpine rock, Swiss glaciers, snowy ridges, Swiss cheese, cow bells. Come and enjoy Switzerland with us.

Mountain climbing in Switzerland

Mountain climbing in Switzerland

Classic alpine Swiss mountain ridges

Classic alpine Swiss mountain ridges

Alpinism in Switzerland with a Mountain Guide

Happy Swiss times

Private mountain guiding Switzerland

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All the way from Hokitika to Switzerland. Jono and Clara have been enjoying a big trip to see the sights of Switzerland and booked a trip with me to experience the big mountains of Switzerland.

A quite tricky week of weather was the challenge , however we managed ascents of the 4000m Weissmeis and the  4000m Allanlinhorn plus a day on inspirational rock near Leysin.

private mountain guiding in Switzerland

Descending the Allanlinhorn – private mountain guiding in Switzerland

inspiriational rock climbing switzerland

Rock climbing that is inspirational, Switzerland

Switzerland summit – Allalinhorn 4000m , private mountain guiding

Swiss private climbing instruction

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In the middle of the July/August Swiss climbing season , Grant and Gary spent a week in the Swiss Alps working on developing Grants intermediate and advanced climbing techniques/skills for smooth, efficient ascent and descent of big peaks.

mt-blanc-de-cheilion

Climbing on Mt Blanc de Cheilion, Switzerland

matternhorn-skyline

Matterhorn skyline, Swiss Alps

2016 specialized mountain training in Iceland

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Again this year , Mountain Guide Gary Dickson travelled to Iceland in June and worked with Icelandic Mountain Guides and this year some other glacier guides from Iceland with their training and certification requirements for the Icelandic glacier guiding industry.

specialized mountain training in iceland

specialized mountain training in iceland

the power of icelandic milk for mountain training

the power of icelandic milk for mountain training

Iceclimbing in iceland

Iceclimbing in iceland

Switzerland climbing 2016

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Grant has just booked with me a week of mountaineering  in the Swiss alps in August.  You too can come and join the alpinism and ski team and enjoy the massive supermarket of mountaineering peaks and routes with good  access, light packs, excellent mountain accomodation in Switzerland.

On his recent trip in the NZ Alps, Ant is inspired to get into more mountaineering again and will maybe join me in the swiss alps too………………… what about you?

Nadelhorn, classic summit, Switzerland

Almageller hut. Sass valley, Switzerland

2016 classic mountaineering west coast nz

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January 2016, Ascents trip to the West coast, based at Centenial Hut. Great weather and we had the whole of the 8000ha of the Franz neve to ourselves! and the end of the week , a fantastic traverse of the Remarkables, above Queenstown….

Anthony on the summit of Single Cone, the third peak on the Remarkables traverse

Ant climbing on Mt Aurora, Franz Josef glacier, West coast nz

Ant climbing on Mt Aurora, Franz Josef glacier, West coast NZ

Leysin, Switzerland

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Leysin is a fantastic alpine village nestled in the pre alps of Switzerland, perfect as our base to launch mountaineering trips into the swiss alps from.

Leysin has all grades of rock climbing on superb rock

Leysin has all grades of rock climbing on superb rock

Leysin has excellent local hikes pre and post mountaineering

Leysin has excellent local hikes pre and post mountaineering

Awesome mountain veiws from this 1500m veiw point - Leysin

Awesome mountain veiws from this 1500m veiw point – Leysin

Leysin is easy to get to via the fantastically efficient and reliable Swiss train system or road if you have a rental car.

It is about the same size as Wanaka, NZ – a small alpine type town with cafes, restaurants, sports stores, supermarket, a variety of nice accomodation options  and importantly central to the main mountaineering regions.

  • 1.5 hrs from chamonix
  • 2 hrs from Zermatt, Sass valley region
  • 2.5 hrs from the Grindelwald  region
  • 3hrs from getting to Italy – Grand Paradiso National Park

So perfect for a warm up acclimatisation hike,  rock session or via ferrata if required for skills acqusition , skills tune up or best weather option, and then ideal for launching off to the best venue for conditions, weather, your skills and objectives….

guided climb of Matterhorn

Helicopter action recently rennovating the Hornli hut -Matterhorn in the background

UIAGM/IFMGA mountain guide

Me, Gary Dickson, IFMGA mountain guide on Swiss rock

Alpinism adventures, Leysin, Switzerland

Swiss alpine flora, on a rock climbing excursion near Leysin