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...

The weather window presented itself: a good clearance from Thursday to Sunday in mid September. I had been playing tour guide for my...

Every year in the week before the Remarkables Ice and Mixed Festival, the team gets together to climb hard, have some yarns and organize...

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...

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...

“Many Canterbury men know that a tough trans-alpine crossing can be a harder test of competence in unorthodox travel and stubborn...

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,...

More like the Learning Curver ! Lighter packs and a better looking weather window had myself and Lionel walking up the Hooker for the...

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...

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...

A couple of days of high pressure were forecast; the weather window looked like it was wide enough to sneak through on Tuesday. Gavin...

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...

Ben Mangan, Lionel Clay, James Hobson With the freezing level rapidly rising all over the Southern Alps - it was time to grab the...

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...

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...

Spending a whole season in a place as dynamic as Chamonix in the heart of the French Alps is an interesting experience. Observing the...

Eyeing the next thin slot above, I jammed my fingers in deep and wedged them into the constriction. Far above my last piece of...

The Expedition Climbers Club (ECC) recently organised a rock climbing trip to Cloudy Peak in late February this year with the intention...