Just as I thought what lay above wasn’t the prettiest icescape I’d seen, Simon paraphrased for me. “This ice is sh#t.” He was busily hacking away at brittle rime ice on steep volcanic rock. Ice fragments flew everywhere.
The moonless crystal clear sky offered the most vivid view of the Milky Way I’d ever seen.
Climbing Australia's highest peak in winter
Going with the flow, or in this case, snow at Arthurs Pass on Mount Temple and Mount Rolleston
Since Guy Mannering and A. P. Harper first crossed it in January 1890, Ball Pass has become one of those better known spots than most in our Southern Alps.
An attempt on the southwest ridge of Cloudy Peak, a little beyond Erewhon Station in the Canterbury mountains
A round trip in winter from Homer Hut, climbing Mt McPherson via Talbot Ladder, then over Traverse Pass to Gertrude Saddle and down.
In pursuit of the Tararuas' fifteen points above 1,500 metres
Experiencing the Fiordland story of survival from the intimate details to the grand landscapes
Roaming over passes and camping beneath the stars from Falls Creek to Hut Creek
Just one client and his guide with the Linda Glacier route all to themselves (December 2012)
Tramping solo on a club trip and later on meeting friends from your town, that you normally tramp with on other club trips? Yes, that was one of those trips with surprises.
Kane Hartill shares the story behind his magnficent photo; of mountain adventures across generations and being there just at the right moment.
A summer climb of Mount Earnslaw's east peak and adjacent Mount O'Leary (March 2013)
A four day tops circuit across some of the highest peaks of the Ruahine (March 2017).
As four friends from the Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club we were very fortunate to be the first recipients of the Simon Bell Memorial Scholarship.
A visit to Annette Plateau via Sebastopol Ridge, exiting over Mount Kitchener on a route not initially intended.
A short account of the winter climbing meet based at Homer Hut in the Darran Mountains (July 2015).
Mt Somers is a fantastic outdoor playground that has something for everyone at all times of year. Join Tomas Sobek on an Otago Tramping and Mountaineering Club trip.
Trampers go the darnedest places, here Peter Lee-Johnson and his Katikati Tramping Club mates find a view in the southern Kaimai.
It’s said that life’s a journey. Actually, I think it’s is a series of journeys, where some can be travelled on the back of others. That’s how I see my trips to the Khumbu in Nepal with my sons.
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