Canada Ice Climbing 2023
Blog 1: The first week of ice By Mason Gardener Well, we are into it, albeit off to a rough start, as Mason's bag was lost on a...
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nzalpineteam
Nov 2, 20229 min read
The Right hand Icefields of Mt Hicks
The weather window presented itself: a good clearance from Thursday to Sunday in mid September. I had been playing tour guide for my...
nzalpineteam
Sep 15, 20226 min read
Remarkables NZAT Training Week 2022
Every year in the week before the Remarkables Ice and Mixed Festival, the team gets together to climb hard, have some yarns and organize...
nzalpineteam
Jan 24, 20223 min read
Aoraki/Mt Cook Para-alpinism
Can we actually foot launch our paragliders off Aoraki from the High peak? It’s been on my mind for 10 years after seeing a photo of my...
nzalpineteam
Oct 5, 20213 min read
Douglas Peak – South Face – Beta
The guidebook raves that the South Face of Douglas Peak is one of New Zealand's great ice climbs. We too can attest this is a classic ice...
nzalpineteam
Jan 17, 202113 min read
Evolution of the Arthurs Pass to Mount Cook Traverse
“Many Canterbury men know that a tough trans-alpine crossing can be a harder test of competence in unorthodox travel and stubborn...
nzalpineteam
Nov 1, 20207 min read
Variations on a Theme: alternate versions of classic routes on Aoraki and Mt Dixon
It seemed like the first reasonable break in the weather for weeks. I’d like to call the response an orderly mobilisation of the troops,...
nzalpineteam
Oct 26, 20203 min read
Mt Hicks South Face – The Curver
More like the Learning Curver ! Lighter packs and a better looking weather window had myself and Lionel walking up the Hooker for the...
nzalpineteam
Oct 13, 20206 min read
New route Mt DArchiac South Face: Lust
Accompanied by Elliot and Luke doing all sorts of things I would never have guessed you could (or should) do in a stock standard Grand...
nzalpineteam
Aug 19, 20204 min read
Remarkables Ice and Mixed Festival instructor's wrap party: Tititea/Aspiring South West Ridge
The lead up to the Remarkables Ice and Mixed Festival is always an intensely satisfying, full on week for the NZAT. Day after day we head...
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nzalpineteam
Aug 4, 20203 min read
New route Tititea/Aspiring South Face: Kia rapu i toku maramatanga [Seeking the Light]
A couple of days of high pressure were forecast; the weather window looked like it was wide enough to sneak through on Tuesday. Gavin...
nzalpineteam
Jul 21, 20202 min read
Mt Hicks South Face – The Curver
The faces were looking dry as Alastair and I made the journey up the Hooker Valley - as we picked our way through the rocky moraine we...
nzalpineteam
Nov 7, 20192 min read
Climbing Dasler Pinnacles – Hopkins Valley
Ben Mangan, Lionel Clay, James Hobson With the freezing level rapidly rising all over the Southern Alps - it was time to grab the...
nzalpineteam
Oct 7, 20194 min read
Remarkables Ice and Mixed Festival: Team Training Week
The interns, the young ones, newbies, bottom of the pecking order… whatever anyone wanted to call us, we were the new kids on the block...
nzalpineteam
Apr 26, 20193 min read
Walker Spur in Winter – Grandes Jorasses
This is a trip report for an ascent of the Walker spur by Kim Ladiges & Daniel Joll on the 22/3/2019 (first day of spring so not quite a...
nzalpineteam
Apr 23, 20199 min read
A Winter in the French Alps
Spending a whole season in a place as dynamic as Chamonix in the heart of the French Alps is an interesting experience. Observing the...
nzalpineteam
Dec 12, 20178 min read
The Salathe Wall
Salathe Baby! There were people everywhere! Coming up underneath us, rapping down on top of us, jugging fixed ropes and haul bags from...
nzalpineteam
Aug 10, 20175 min read
Bugaboos Alpine Rock: The Beckey-Chouinard
Eyeing the next thin slot above, I jammed my fingers in deep and wedged them into the constriction. Far above my last piece of...
nzalpineteam
Jul 31, 20175 min read
The Nose of El Capitan
My legs hung over the edge. Daisy chains reined me in taught to the wall. I reeled myself back onto the ledge, shortening the tethers...
nzalpineteam
Apr 21, 20174 min read
A New Alpine Rock Route on Cloudy Peak
The Expedition Climbers Club (ECC) recently organised a rock climbing trip to Cloudy Peak in late February this year with the intention...
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