Advice & Beta If the route is completely dry it would be possible to simply go with running shoes, no crampons or ice axe would be...

Tears welled up in my eyes. With each step I choked them back. 50m from the summit several escaped and with no one nearby I simply let...

Petit Dru South Face Ordinary Route Approach and Route Beta The approach to the South Face of the Petit and Grand Drus is best made from...

Three of our other options for our biennial brothers trip had been abandoned due to weather or conditions. An idea which had been mooted,...

A contender for the worst rock in the Alps would have to be Mt Huxley, which sits at head of the Ahuriri River with the Chosspile Peaks...

Cyclone Luci was making her way south across the Pacific, bearing down on the north island and due to hit land on Saturday. I too was...

I’d been wanting to go into the Central Darrans for years. Ever since I stood on the top of Barrier Knob – a Darrans neophyte on my way...

One night, sitting around the fire in the Warden’s Quarters at Homer Hut and listening to the heavy rain that signaled the end of the...

Mater Dei, 1000m, 20, first ascent. Trip report and video from the ascent. Its not often I find myself checking the weather forecast for...

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Youtube Videos & Expedition Report Expedition Report New Zealand Alpine Team Expedition Cerro Torre, Torre Egger 1st December 2013 - 6th...

I looked down, for the thousandth time, at the crampon points kicked in as far as I could tolerate, my toes aching and bruising with...

The term 'For the LOLs' and its variations speak to the deeper reasons of what motivates us to climb. It is not infrequently that a...

The forecast was for one of those weak westerly flows that come in right after a clearing SW storm. Although the weather for the weekend...

Resistentialism noun: The apparently perverse or spiteful behavior of inanimate objects. It had been almost 3 weeks since the accident,...

On the 26th May 2014, part of the New Zealand Alpine Team headed to Denali National Park in Alaska for a five week expedition. The...

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