Mount Cook Heli Hike & Alpine Guided Treks
Alpine Guides offers customised, small group experiences across Mount Cook National Park, including the Tasman Glacier (New Zealand’s longest glacier).
Alpine Guides offers a variety of short, accessible mountain trips, including the Tasman Glacier Heli Hike and Mount Cook Heli Snowshoeing, as well as guided hiking and climbing, glacier trekking adventures, overnight hut stays, and single-day ice climbing experiences.
Alapine guides are highly trained experts who are driven to share their love of our beautiful scenery. They are all qualified through the New Zealand Mountain Guides Association’s training programme or through international guiding organisations associated with the New Zealand Mountain Guides Association. This ensures your safety and allows you to explore some of the world’s most challenging terrain.
Come and join Alpine Guides for a True Alpine Experience!
Alpine Guides – Tasman Glacier Heli Hike
Price: $499 per person
Duration: 3 Hours
Difficulty: Two out of five
Departs: 9:00 am – 11:00 am & 1:00 pm
Hike and explore the ‘white ice’ of New Zealand’s longest glacier at Aoraki Mount Cook. Heli-hiking on the Tasman Glacier offers easy access to the realm of the mountaineer. With your mountain guide, you will fly high onto the “white ice” of New Zealand’s longest and largest glacier – the mighty Tasman (Huapapa).
Your adventure starts when we meet at Mount Cook Airport, provide a safety briefing, and check equipment – then embark on a thrilling helicopter flight into the mountains.
An Amazing Landscape of Ice
This guided interpretative trek is on an amazing landscape of fluted ice, runnels, moulins, and sinuous winding streamlets. You will explore the gently undulating terrain, as your crampons bite into ancient ice. The highest peaks of the Southern Alps, Aoraki Mount Cook and Mount Tasman, tower above.
Your helicopter returns you safely to Mt Cook Airport, flying close to the massive 1,000 metre high (3,200 feet) Hochstetter Icefall to finish your incredible adventure.
Highlights of the Tasman Glacier Heli Hike:
- Up to 2 hours on the ice of New Zealand’s longest glacier
- Helicopter flight is twice as long as at Franz or Fox Glaciers
- Hike at over 1,200 m above sea level
- Amazing close-up views of New Zealand’s highest peaks
Please Bring:
- Sunglasses
- Sun block and lip cream (UV is high)
- Warm hat and gloves for cool days
- Small backpack with refreshments
- Camera with plenty of memory
