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Climbing Moab’s Classic Desert Towers
After two months of fantastic ice & mixed climbing in the Canadian Rockies, finally the seasons were beginning to signal a change, with...
nzalpineteam
Apr 9, 20173 min read
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Arthurs Pass Ice
The words Arthurs Pass and ice are two words most climbers never use in the same sentence. The fact of the matter is, ice routes do exist...
nzalpineteam
Dec 24, 20164 min read
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Tears of Papatuanuku (East Face of Mt Talbot)
I'd done several of the classic rock routes up on Moirs and on the back of Barrier Knob over the past summer months but I'm ashamed to...
nzalpineteam
Nov 7, 20164 min read
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Alpine training in Australia
While there may be a lacking of high mountains or ice and mixed climbing, with some imagination, there is no shortage of opportunities to...
nzalpineteam
Oct 21, 20168 min read
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Ozymandias Direct – Mt Buffalo
It all started at the ‘Death Stairs’, a flight of 250 steps above Coogee beach, Sydney. The endorphins were obviously running rampant...
nzalpineteam
Apr 6, 20168 min read
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The Progeny: A First Ascent of the West Ridge of Percy Smith
From what is admittedly a very limited amount of experience, there's one thing about first ascents which stands out to me. Perhaps I do...
nzalpineteam
Jan 18, 20164 min read
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Summer Alpine Climbing – Aspiring, Douglas & Aoraki
Late spring and early summer often produce fine snow & ice conditions for mountaineering routes on our great peaks. Since the recent...
nzalpineteam
Jan 13, 20165 min read
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Aoraki South Face – Grand Traverse and Tasman Syme-Silberhorn
There is something aesthetic and satisfying about traversing over the top of a mountain and descending a different route. Whether on...
nzalpineteam
Jan 7, 20166 min read
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East Ridge Aoraki/Mt Cook
For a climb which the guidebook describes as a classic ice climb, perhaps the finest in New Zealand? There's remarkably little...
nzalpineteam
Nov 15, 20154 min read
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Rose’s Recovery
One Year – And Recovered It has been exactly one year to the day since my brother and I made that fateful decision to descend from Zits...
nzalpineteam
Dec 10, 201313 min read
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