Mountaineering West Coast

What an awesome sunset – what to experience on your West Coast of NZ mountaineering trip

8 day mountaineering trip – destination, West Coast of the NZ Southern Alps. Base, Pioneer Hut 2400m.  Lots of glacier, snow and ice.

Great weather and Primo conditions were had by Mountain  Guide Gary and Australian mountaineers Fernando and Jamie.

Summit of Grey Peak, Main divide, Southern Alps

Descending to Chancellor hut, Fox Glacier

Outside Pioneer Hut, ready to go classic west coast mountaineering

West Coast of NZ, mountaineering

April 2017 and Mountain Guide Gaz is just back from a trip to the West coast neve of the Fox Glacier.

Excellent weather and great mountaineering conditions  and a couple of excellent ascents for a couple from Thailand.

lendenfeld

Mt lendenfeld, one of 26 peaks over 3000m in the NZ Alps – ascended this week.

Adventures start from Pioneer hut

Pioneer Hut, @2400m above sea level. The climbing base for the week.

2016 classic mountaineering west coast nz

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