The northern lights over Mt. Cook Lakeside RetreatCourtesy Mount Cook Retreat Perched atop a high mountain plateau in the sparse terrain of New Zealand’s South Island, the Aoraki Mackenzie ...

The rarely climbed Jones Route is found in the centre of the massive East Face of Aoraki / Mt Cook. Its characteristics lie in series of spines; a 500 m spine leads up the edge of the entry snowfield ...

Less than a month after the historic first ski descent of the SE Face of Mount Cook, better still, of Aoraki as it is referred to by the indigenous Maori people, a new route has now been forged up the ...

Police have recovered the bodies of an internationally-recognised mountain guide and their client who died in an overnight fall on Aoraki Mt Cook. The climbers were in a party of four, roped together ...

An internationally-recognised Wanaka-based mountain guide who died on Aoraki Mt Cook has been remembered as a careful and diligent climber. Wānaka'sThomas Vialletet and a United States client were in ...