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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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Explore Tekapo and its stunning mountain and lake views
Welcome to Lake Tekapo!
Lightweight Backcountry Tours in the Two Thumb Range
If you can walk, you can ski nordic!
High Country Snowshoe Hikes
The foothills of the Southern Alps undergo a magic transformation in winter.
Guided overnight hikes in the Two Thumb Range, Lake Tekapo
Hike above worry level in the foothills of the Southern Alps.
There are many things to see and do in Lake Tekapo.
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!
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....