Guidelines – Alpine Guides, Mt Cook, New Zealand

In Retirement

wildernessheli — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 21:37:08 +0000

Hello folks

We have retired our blog. Possibly forever.

With the growth of social media, and the nature of our updates, a blog has become less and less relevant for us.

If you would like to follow Alpine Guides you can find us on Facebook and Twitter.

Alpine Guides is Moving

artmcbride — Thu, 01 May 2014 23:17:37 +0000

We are exiting our location in the “basement” of the Hermitage at the end of May. We are all pretty excited about the change of scene for AGL. Our new location will be 98 Bowen Drive. This is right across the “street” from the DOC Visitor Centre.

We will be moving into what was the National Park H.Q. back in the 1960’s. It’s a fantastic location, with a great feel, and some of the best views of Mount Cook in the village. Once we get set up it will (of course) be the coolest pad in Mt Cook…

We have closed our store and rental facilities through May and June as we break down our current premises, and get to work on the improvements needed for the new location.

The new place will be perfect for running guided trips from. We will still provide our rental gear service, and retail, but with a much reduced focus on the shopfront.

TMC 15

jamieagl — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 01:30:09 +0000

What a week. Perfect weather for most of the week making great conditions for the TMC. After flying into Kelman hut on the 1st day we worked on skills to go and climb a peak. A East-West Traverse of Hochstetter Dome was the 1st objective.

Pitched climbing up the E ridge

Heading up the E ridge

Coming off the summit

Great day on out with calm, warm conditions on the summit. We climbed both peaks and returned back to Kelman on the track we had put in the day before.

Another climb the next day on Mt Alymer before an afternoon of self rescue in a cravasse.

How to get yourself out of a Cravasse

Next day was rescue day. The guys had asked for a big day on this to add to their rock and canyoning skills that they already had. The guys have done quite a few trips together out of Sydney and could adapt a lot of the rescue skills to other trips they are doing.

We did have one hut day but good timing after being out every day before that, so a rest day was nice and good to catch up on other theory skills.

Ice climbing skills training in the Icefall

Climbing training on Steep ice

Ice climbing on the way back to Mt Cook village, always a good time and again perfect conditions with a good freeze after the small amount of rain the night before. What a great week in the hills and look forward to spending time in the hills with Sam and Rick again.

Sefton Bivi in the sun

Dave McKinley — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:46:35 +0000

With summer here it was time to wander up to spend a night at the Sefton Bivi with Simon and Katie.

Magic