Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park is the home of the country's highest mountain and a lot of glaciers, passes and big alpine valleys. It is a long way from Wellington, so trips here tend to be longer ones.
The club's reports here are mostly alpine: Alpine 1 is the most common grade. They include a week at Tasman Saddle, trips to Ball Pass, and climbs of Mt Footstool. Several reports date from the late 1970s and 1980s. November and December are the busiest months, in the early summer climbing season.
Highlight trips
Mountains, helicopters and a knife-ridge proposal2017 · Alpine 1
Aoraki Mount Cook2018 · Alpine 3
A week at Tasman Saddle2013 · Alpine 1
Ball Pass – Mount Cook2010 · Alpine 1
A trip to the Gardens2009 · Alpine 2- Trip reportMetaphorically SpeakingWhen it is the middle of the night and you are lying in your sleeping bag in a tent and it is cold and drizzly outside and you hear someone get up for a pee and then you realise they aren’t peeing, they’re lighting a primus because they don’t realise it is…