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Evolution of the Arthurs Pass to Mount Cook Traverse
“Many Canterbury men know that a tough trans-alpine crossing can be a harder test of competence in unorthodox travel and stubborn...
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Jan 17, 202113 min read
Mile High Club, Airport Wall, Milford Sound
Short approach, many pitches, interesting and challenging climbing. Personally when it came to climbing in NZ I had always hoped I could...
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Nov 8, 202017 min read
Variations on a Theme: alternate versions of classic routes on Aoraki and Mt Dixon
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,...
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Nov 1, 20207 min read
Mt Hicks South Face – The Curver
More like the Learning Curver ! Lighter packs and a better looking weather window had myself and Lionel walking up the Hooker for the...
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Oct 26, 20203 min read
New route Mt DArchiac South Face: Lust
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...
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Oct 13, 20206 min read
Southern Alps Ski Traverse
The great virus of 2020 dealt a sweeping blow to anyone planning an overseas expedition. With our plans to travel to the Himalaya...
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Oct 9, 20209 min read
Tips and Tricks for Ground Up Lead Bolting
Developing new routes is a highly rewarding and often time consuming activity. Motivations for doing it range from from the personal...
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Sep 30, 20209 min read
The war against the wobble: Fixing loose heads in Petzl Nomics
An issue well known to Petzl Nomics (and some other models of ice axe) is the tendency for the heads to loosen and develop movement over...
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Aug 28, 20205 min read
Remarkables Ice and Mixed Festival instructor's wrap party: Tititea/Aspiring South West Ridge
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...
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Aug 19, 20204 min read
First Ascent South Face of Pyramid Peak
First ascent of the South Face of Pyramid Peak (2295m) - Ben Dare (solo), July 2020. ‘Frost Flower’, Grade 6- (M5, WI4), VI, (1200m). Ten...
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Aug 7, 20205 min read
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New route Tititea/Aspiring South Face: Kia rapu i toku maramatanga [Seeking the Light]
A couple of days of high pressure were forecast; the weather window looked like it was wide enough to sneak through on Tuesday. Gavin...
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Aug 4, 20203 min read
Packing Food for a Mountaineering Expedition
Nutrition on a mountaineering expedition can make or break the trip. Without the correct type of fuel, you cannot perform your best. In...
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Jul 30, 20206 min read
Gear review – Macpac Nazomi lightweight hardshell
I’d heard that the chaps planning head off to Changabang had been talking with Macpac about a new light hardshell jacket for technical...
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Jul 27, 20202 min read
Macpac New Zealand Alpinist of the Year 2020
The Macpac New Zealand Alpinist of the Year awards are judged over the 12-month period that follows the previous year's Remarkables Ice...
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Jul 27, 20202 min read
‘Antics’ – new route on the South Face of Mt Joffre
Team member Jaz Morris along with Ruari Macfarlane and Maddy Whittaker recently made the first recorded ascent of an often-looked-at line...
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Jul 27, 20203 min read
Mt Hicks South Face – The Curver
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...
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Jul 21, 20202 min read
Copper Point New Route – Straight outta lock down
Over two trips to Copper Point in Fiordland Merry and Daniel established a great new crack climb. Straight out of lock down is 175m long...
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May 29, 20201 min read
Life Compass – West Face of Mt Blane
First published in the AAJ – it has been reprinted here with their permission – http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/13201...
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Apr 11, 20204 min read
Canada Ice Climbing 2020
The New Zealand Alpine Team is spending three weeks ice climbing in the Canadian Rockies around Canmore, Alberta this February. Follow this blog to see what we get up to! Day 0 – 31 Jan We all make it to Vancouver. The others subsequently make it Calgary, but I get held up in Immigration. Should have been better behaved in my younger years… (I’m entering on a 2-year working holiday visa so there’s a load of faff) Anyway, I miss my connecting flight and the rescheduled fli
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Feb 2, 202021 min read
Change is coming
An interesting transition is taking place in New Zealand alpine climbing currently. We are in the process of a generational change. Like...
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Jan 28, 20205 min read
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