Things don’t always go to plan ….. I met up with Craig at the Adventure Consultant office in Wanaka. He’s fresh off the plane from Sydney and keen to get out into the the hills for a skills update and to try to sneak in an ascent of Mt Aspiring. The only problem we have […]
A fairly intense weather system had just rolled through and there was a significant amount of snow on Aoraki. At times we were concerned that the avalanche hazard might be too high and that the almost knee deep snow would slow us down too much but in the end we managed a 18 Hour Day […]
After being chased around by bad weather for the best part of 5 days, Domanic and I managed to get a sneaky flight into the Nun’s Veil. We were able to make a quick ascent and then dropped down to the head of Gorrilla Stream before walking out the next day. A pretty good trip […]
Despite the lateness and realtive dryness of the season, the end of February put on amazing weather and gave us the chance to get out amongst the peaks at the head of the Tasman Glacier. Access onto most of the peaks was actually reasonably good with excellent bridging across the bergshrunds. With basically 10 days […]