Tag: trans-alpine
Tag: trans-alpine
Features and editorials about Alpine Recreation and our adventures.
Around Mount Cook
Transalpine Journey around Aoraki Mount Cook
I have wandered up a few pointy bits of landscape in the past, usually by the easiest route, but often after a long approach march to a more remote peak.
The Symphony on Skis
Original article by Gottlieb Braun-Elwert
Christchurch Press 1986A ski traverse is like a well composed piece of music. It flows with harmony, surprises with the unexpected.
Symphony on Skis
Ski Mountaineering in the Southern Alps
Skier MagazineIn momentary surrender I hunched forward and rested my hands on my knees, breathing short and sharp, every expulsion filling the narrow band of light cast by my head torch…