Travis Gloyn Michael Instone (Scribe) We had a plan to climb Mt Aspiring, the “Matterhorn” of the Southern Hemisphere.  It took a bit of negotiation to decide on a date.  Eventually we found that we both had time during Christmas, when we would attempt the Northwest Ridge of Mt Aspiring. We arrived at Wellington Airport for a 12.15 ...

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A Monday afternoon in the rain at Rasberry Flat.  Quentin, Emma and I met Eric and Graham and sorted our gear.  Emma was a late addition to the team so we threw in a bivy bag and tents for 4. The Matukituki was a usual slog up a cow valley, and at Pearl flat we headed up to Liverpool biv which was a nice quick climb with heavy ...

NW ridge is left, SW ridge runs from centre right, W face in centre.  Mt Bevan at left foreground.

From Waipara Saddle

How to Get Lost on your Way to the Olivines and End up on Mt. Aspiring Jan 2008   One hot sunny January day six of us (Kieran, Sophie, Guy, Alyn, Jeremy and I), with 10 days of food and gear each exploded out of Pearl. Then with heavy packs, that could barely be lifted and ambitious plans of getting to and from the Olivine Ice Plateau we ...

Six of us headed up the Matukituki Valley about 2pm one fine day at the start of January (me, Jeremy, Guy, Terra, Alyn, Sophie), made our way up to Aspiring Hut with ridiculously heavy 10 day packs and decided to keep going up to Cascade Saddle. Oddly enough the steep slopes were kinder on the feet and back than the flats (me and Jeremy had rigid ...

10 January 2008

What you've all been waiting for. Really bad photo - most of blackness was actually on the bottom

Photo - Dave Manning