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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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Backcountry ski touring on the peaks overlooking Lake Tekapo
The Two Thumb Range near Lake Tekapo is a backcountry skiing paradise with an amazing landscape providing a good variety of terrain in a series of parallel valleys which allows for a different ski tour each day.
Lake Tekapo mountain retreat
Rex Simpson Hut is located in a beautiful setting on a glacial moraine terrace at 1300m in the Two Thumb Range.
A high level ski mountaineering traverse with stunning views and steep terrain
The Sealy Range above Aoraki Mount Cook village is a remote and exciting ski mountaineering venue surrounded by New Zealand's highest peaks.
Previously known as Avalanche Awareness.
Lightweight Backcountry Tours in the Two Thumb Range
If you can walk, you can ski nordic!
A backcountry ski touring adventure based at Caroline Hut
The Mount Cook Range is a spectacular ski / split-board mountaineering destination.
A true Kiwi wilderness experience and crossing of the Southern Alps
Explore a seldomly visited part of the country as you stand on the Main Divide and look over into the vast Landsborough Wilderness Area.
New Zealand's best hut-based glacier ski & split-board touring destinations
Backcountry Ski & Split-board Touring amongst the glaciers of the Mount Cook and Westland National Parks.
Backcountry tours in the Liebig and Gamack Ranges near Lake Tekapo
The Liebig Range near Lake Tekapo is an exciting new backcountry skiing venue in the middle of an impressive landscape with a good variety of terrain.
Alpine Recreation owns two private mountain huts - Caroline Hut and Rex Simpson Hut.
A Mountain Saftey Council (MSC) accredited course
Learn how to analyse the snowpack, assess slope stability and develop safe travel techniques with expert tuition from avalanche professionals!
Adventurous multi-day trekking in the Mackenzie High Country
The Gamack Range near Lake Tekapo is a spectacular alpine trekking venue in the middle of an impressive landscape carved by glaciers and waterfalls.
New Zealand's ultimate trans-alpine backcountry ski tour!
Linking together New Zealand's 4 main glaciers and traversing the Southern Alps from east to west, the "Symphony on Skis" is New Zealand's ultimate multi-day trans-alpine ski tour.
Explore new terrain and learn backcountry skills!
Improve your skills and go further more safely efficiency with track-laying and handling equipment, avalanche awareness and rescue, snow shelter building, navigation....
New Zealand's ultimate freeride destination
Erewhon Hut at Mt Potts sits at 1750m on the historic Erewhon Park Ski Field.
New Zealand's best freeride destination
Mackenzie high country adventures
Ski lodge based day tours on the peaks and ranges around Lake Tekapo
Freeride, ski and split-board touring for those wanting to be based out of Lake Tekapo, but still access the backcountry for rewarding ski tours.
The perfect mountain escape
Soak in a hot tub under the stars