Aoraki – Mt Cook
Height :
3756m
Average Climbing Time :
17 hours from Plateau Hut
Crux :
The Summit Rocks
Allow 6 days for variable weather.
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- climbing through a very iced up section of Aoraki Mt cooks summit rocks
Summer Guiding NZ / Antarctica and Nepal 2017 – Back in NZ … Briefly!
With NZ currently in the grip of a strong disturbed westerly flow its feeling good to be re-gathering after returning from Nepal and the Cholatse Expedition rather than rushing back into the mountains to work.
The Mighty Mt Dixon (Instead of Aoraki)
In mid Dec – during the height of the Christmas weather, Trent came back to visit Mt cook for the 3rd time. Wx once again was not on Trent’s side for a summit attempt. SW – SE flows had put down at least 1.5 feet of snow over a 48 hour period and with poor […]
Aoraki Mt Cook January 2013
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 […]