About
Alpinism & Ski
Alpinism & Ski guiding company has been taking clients into
the mountains since the Millennium year, providing safe and adventurous
guided mountain experiences.
Gary (Gaz) is the leading assessor and trainer of
professional guides in both New Zealand and Iceland and has literally
'written the book' on key elements of mountain instruction. His
sought-after instruction skills reflect almost a quarter of a century
in the guiding industry, starting as a glacier guide on Fox Glacier
on the West Coast through to a few years as chief guide at Aoraki/Mt
Cook before starting Alpinism & Ski as New Zealand's leading
boutique mountain guiding company based in Wanaka. His work with
clients as diverse Australasia's elite special forces, the New Zealand
Mountain Guides Association and Icelandic Mountain and Glacier Guides
speaks for itself. If he can help them, think what he and his hand-picked
team of professional mountain guides can do for you!
Originally from Switzerland, Iris has extensive experience in the
tourism industry and with a commercial and administrative background
runs the Alpinism & Ski base operations. Her mountaineering
experience enables her to offer sound and practical advice and in
between she runs the Alpinism & Ski soft recreational trekking
excursions.
Alpinism & Ski operations started in September 2000 with a
ski touring trip in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. Extending
the alpinism activities to the Northern Hemisphere with guided ascents
and mountaineering instruction courses in the Swiss, French and
Italian Alps during June, July and August each year was a natural
thing to do with the obvious Swiss connection.
During the first ten years, the team has built a small, high quality
global enterprise providing a professional mountain guiding and
instructional service to keen climbers, aspiring mountaineers and
future mountain guides, ski tourers and hikers.
Need any help to organise
your very own mountaineering or trekking adventure?
Given the nature of the business it is very obvious
that sustainability
and environment friendly ways of operating are a must and keenly
pursued. The team is proud of what they achieved so far with projects
of improvement still and always on-going at the Alpinism & Ski
base in Wanaka as well as in the mountains, more on our blog here.
We are looking forward to share our paradise with
you.
