Southern Alps
Heli-ski mountaineering in pristine alpine terrain
New Zealand's Southern Alps are a mountaineer's proving ground — raw, glaciated, and staggeringly beautiful. The ski mountaineering here combines helicopter access with serious alpine terrain: couloirs that drop from ridgeline to valley floor, glaciers that require roped travel, and descents measured in thousands of vertical feet.
What sets New Zealand apart is the scale and the emptiness. On a given day, your tracks may be the only ones on the entire mountain. The weather is maritime and demanding, the snowpack complex, and the reward immense — long, sustained descents through terrain that feels truly wild.
Based from remote lodges, each day is shaped by conditions, ambition, and the deep expertise of guides who've spent decades reading these mountains.
A certified IFMGA guide and lifelong Southern Alps climber, our New Zealand guide has made first descents on peaks most people have never heard of.
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