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Alpine Recreation offer a range of climbing instruction courses and guided ascents throughout the year, catering to a range of experience levels, personal objectives and goals.
Alpine Recreation offers freeride, ski & split-board touring trips and winter skills courses in New Zealand's most spectacular backcountry locations.
Alpine Recreation owns a private lodge in Lake Tekapo and two private mountain huts.
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Season: November - April
Learn the skills to safely venture beyond tramping tracks and above the snow line!
1 - 4 per guide
4 - 5 days
from $2200 per person
Go beyond the basic skills of mountaineering and get into more serious alpine terrain!
5 - 7 days
from $2900 per person
Take your climbing further and learn advanced mountaineering skills under expert tuition from…
1 - 3 per guide
from $3545 per person
Season: June - August
Learn ice climbing skills at our stunning venue in the Liebig Range.
from $2965 per person
Season: July - September
Learn how to analyse the snowpack, assess slope stability and develop safe travel techniques with…
1 - 6 per guide
from $1900 per person
Improve your skills and go further more safely efficiency with track-laying and handling equipment…
from $2005 per person
Highlights from recent Alpine Instruction Courses adventures
Our guests are loving our mountaineering courses.
OUR NEW WEBSITE IS LIVE 🎉🙌😅 This has been a major project for quite some time and has had to fit…
Highlights from our latest Intensive Mountaineering Skills Course at Caroline Hut, Ball Glacier and…
“What a fantastic week with awesome people.
“Alpine Recreation must offer the best introductory mountaineering course in New Zealand.
