New Zealand Mountaineering Course

The New Zealand Mountaineering course is a 6 day technical climbing course designed to give you the skills to safely climb on glaciated mountains in New Zealand and around the world.

The 6 day course is based from a high mountain hut on a glacier in the Mt Cook National Park.

On this course you will learn the following mountaineering and climbing skills:

• Climbing knots
• Ice axe use & climbing techniques
• Glacier travel
• Cramponing technique on easy, moderate, and steep terrain
• Self arresting
• Belaying
• Use of a climbing rope on snow, ice, rock, and alpine ridge lines
• Crevasse rescue
• Rock climbing
• Ice climbing
• Decision making and judgment
• Weather analysis
• Map & compass use & route finding
• Snow anchors
• Rock anchors

As part of the course we will focus on climbing mountains to learn skills. Possible ascents will include:

• Hochsetter Dome 
• Mt Aylmer
• Mt Abel
• Glacier peak
• Grey Peak
• Mt Lendenfeild
• Mt Aurora
• Chancellor Dome
• Anzac Peak
• Glacier Dome Ridge Traverse