Mt Aspiring – Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club

Pete Goodwin – Life Member

3 Nov 2015

I mentioned to Pete one weekend at Ruapehu Lodge that I was doing some Life Member interviews and he promptly said ‘Right we’d better bloody get on with it then’. So he regaled me with decades of club adventures over coffee surrounded by kids playing and with stunning views of Taranaki out the window. When … Read more

South west ridge of Aspiring

6 May 20161 Feb 2011

Date: November 2010.
Trip type: Alpine.
Location: Aspiring National Park.
Author: Yibai He.
Trampers: Yibai He and Bruno Geldermans.

I remembered vividly the sleepless nights I had in Plateau hut at the base of Mt Cook last year, also in November, the wind was shaking the hut so violently the first thing I did next morning was to climb underneath the hut to make sure the cables holding the hut were still in place, … Read more