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Those climbers interested in Fiordland will be aware that the Darran Mountains (2006) guidebook by...
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Reminder of the New Zealand Alpine Club AGM
Friday 28th October 2022
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Aspiring Hut is owned by NZAC and managed by Department of Conservation (DOC) under the...
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Nank has crossed the Main Divide for the last time. He will be relieved —...
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Anybody with more than a passing interest in New Zealand rock climbing should know a...
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Wānaka remains one of the most active areas in New Zealand for rock climbing, with...
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Here’s something that would be great to...
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By Christina Rivett
Back in March 2019 extreme flooding from a storm had washed away...
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It is one of those cold, dark nights you read about, when things go awry. ...
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The short film Link Sar, directed by Graham Zimmerman, is now available via EpicTV...
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Competition climbing has just appeared in the Olympic Games for the first time and by...
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Following up from the introductory article Rock Shoes 101, today I’ll discuss the idea of...
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Powerband Podcast is a podcast series conducted by John Palmer looking at New Zealand rock...
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Newish to climbing? Have you been hiring shoes in the gym up until now, or...
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New Zealand Alpine Club have now published our new Ōhau–Landsborough Alps guidebook. This 216-page guidebook...
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In The Climber issue #72 (winter, 2010) a feature ran with six of the last...
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In The Climber issue #72 (winter, 2010) a feature ran with six of the last...
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By Richard Waldin, President, Climbing New Zealand.
As we head into 2021, it is difficult...
![Mt Pembroke, Fiordland. February 2020. Photo: James Broadbent.](/sites/default/files/styles/grid/public/images/James_Broadbent_Vertical_World-2.jpg?h=f5c12990&itok=VK7QsrIK)
By James Broadbent
The Vertical World is an incredibly diverse one. It’s outdoors and indoors...
![Chris Oates on Rome Ridge Climber bout clouded valley](/sites/default/files/styles/grid/public/images/JB_D2A1897.jpg?h=5e2dd1f3&itok=5tIP2c68)
I don’t get out enough. I imagine that’s not an uncommon state of affairs, but...
![Rachel Musgrave on Disconnect at Flock Hill. Derek Thatcher Woman bouldering](/sites/default/files/styles/grid/public/images/DT_IMG_2238.jpg?h=f942fa7c&itok=xaET0B7A)
Rach ‘the Mus’ Musgrave is arguably one of New Zealand’s most enduring hard climbers. Despite...
![The Red Hold A resin rock climbing hold for indoor walls](/sites/default/files/styles/grid/public/images/TH_Red%20Pocket%20copy.jpg?h=af8a9798&itok=dL8IWFxY)
‘Aerobics for the 90s’ is how rock climbing was described in a magazine article promoting...
![Cirrus Tan competing at the Auckland NIBS event. © Eddie Fowke/The Circuit Climbing. Female climbing in competition with crowd watching.](/sites/default/files/styles/grid/public/images/NIBSAuckland2020%20EddieF%20%28Banner%20Crop%29.jpg?h=2b3b3fd0&itok=RVIjDdM1)
![Erin Stewart attempting Rubble, at The Cave. Woman climbing steep rock.](/sites/default/files/styles/grid/public/images/49077492741_29471a98e0_o.jpg?h=3a51b6cd&itok=Cjr4Vojs)
Throwback Thursdays will reproduce features which have appeared in past issues of The Climber magazine...