Guides & Staff

Meet our friendly team at Alpine Recreation

Whether it's a friendly voice at the end of the phone or guiding you in the mountains, our enthusiastic team is here to look after you and provide advice. We pride ourselves in being a small, family-run business with high standards - many of our guests return year after year. Many of our guides speak a second language. Wir sprechen deutsch!

The New Zealand Mountain Guides Association (NZMGA), has international accreditation with the International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations, IFMGA / UIAGM.

Management Team

director

Anne Braun-Elwert

Anne helped her husband, Gottlieb Braun-Elwert, to set up Alpine Recreation Canterbury Ltd in 1981, initially based in Christchurch. By 1984 both had given up teaching careers and moved to Lake…

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director

IFMGA / UIAGM

Elke Braun-Elwert

Elke's passion is ski mountaineering, alpine climbing, mountain biking and her two active young kids.

She has climbed and skied throughout the New Zealand Alps for most of her life, represented…

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general manager

NZMGA Ski Guide

NZMGA Assistant Alpine Trekking Guide

Axel Reiser

Tena tatou katoa!

Ko te kupu tuatahi ki te Kaihanga
Koia ra te timatanga me te whakamutunga o nga mea katoa.
Kaua ma te waewae tutuki, engari ma te upoko pakaru.

E rere taku manu ki te tihi o…

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