Tim Steward NZ

21/04/2024

24/04/2023

Running the Rock Guide Training course for . This is the last training course for prospective NZMGA Climb and IFMGA Mountain Guides before their first assessment course.

By the time IFMGA Guides are fully qualified in NZ, they would have attended 14+ formal training days and 56 formal assessment days as well as many additional days of first aid and avalanche risk management training and assessment, personal days of skiing and climbing, and work experience to ensure they have the technical and decision making skills, knowledge and experience for taking guests into the mountains.

22/03/2023

Climb Guides Assessment. Candidates being put through their paces in the Remarkables, Upper Tasman / Haupapa and Fred Stream in the Ben Ohaus.

15/08/2022

Already lots going on in August but still opportunities to jump on board:

19th - 22nd August: 4 day Avalanche Skills Course 2: 1 place available

19th-20th August: Avalanche Skills Course 1: places available

Treble Cone Backcountry and Introduction to Backcountry Ski and Splitboard Courses are running weekly during August (subject to weather and minimum numbers).

Get in contact to register interest in these trips or upcoming glacier ski tours.

21/07/2022

18/07/2022

08/06/2022

It's snowing in Mount Aspiring National Park and a few more days of storm on it's way! It looks like winter 2022 has arrived in Wanaka.

26/04/2022

Rock Guide Training Course for prospective mountain guides in Wanaka and the Remarkables for the New Zealand Mountain Guides Association. Great to see candidates developing their rock climbing and scrambling guiding and rescue skills.

18/04/2022

A backyard adventure on a long weekend of jet boat camping and exploratory cragging in the Aspiring region.

17/03/2022

Winding it back a bit for some summer trekking (and relaxing) at Whare Kea Chalet thanks to Aspiring Helicopters and Wānaka Mountain Guides Looking ahead to winter, this is a great venue for a unique NZ ski touring experience. Get in touch for info.

19/02/2022

A February of summer adventures rock climbing in the Darrans, tramping through the Hector mountains and a film shoot caputuring the work of glaciologists working to understand changes on the upper Haupapa / Tasman glacier.

(Shoot photos courtesy of Rob Morgensten)

25/11/2021

Excellent conditions on the SW Ridge of Mt Aspiring this week with Rob, Dave and Wānaka Mountain Guides

06/10/2021

Foot accessed spring ski touring at Caroline Hut with Alpine Recreation

27/09/2021

A few days at Tasman Saddle Hut and Ohau on a Glacier Ski Touring course with the New Zealand Alpine Club. Powder, corn, sun, wind, lightening, snow, rain...

08/08/2021

A few days camping and instructing ice climbing at Wye Creek with a crew from New Zealand Alpine Club

03/08/2021

The last few weeks of putting ski patrol students through their paces in avalanche risk management, rescue, ski touring and first aid. Their next step is 6 weeks work placement at ski fields round the country. Best of luck team!

07/05/2021

A snap shot of what 22 people on the 1000m long (450m vertical) 'Lord of the Rungs' looks like.

07/05/2021

Heaps of fun today on Wanaka's own highest waterfall climb on the planet!

Today was a day for the record books! 15 medics
From the New Zealand Army Southern Health Support Squadron, 2 Wildwire guides, 4 NZMGA Mountain guides and an outdoor adventure student climbed the Lord of the Rungs, finished off with 4 Heli loads with Aspiring Helicopters back to the base.

Phew what an amazing day! 😎