Hi and thanks for your email. If you go to our website mtcook . com all the info and booking information is available plus times. Best wishes Charlie Hobbs

TASMAN GLACIER HELI-HIKE AND GLACIER HIKING with Southern Alps Guiding Hi Melvin Thank you for your email regarding our heli hiking trips on the famous Tasman Glacier. Our company offers unique personalised heli hiking without being around big groups. We are the pioneers of heli hiking at Aoraki Mount Cook and the operation is Aoraki Mt Cook family owned. Our guides, Charlie and Ant, are the “Legends” of Tasman Glacier Guiding and have vast amounts of experience and knowledge of the area. Our classic fly-in, fly-out heli-hike combines the excitement of Glacier Hiking on the mighty Tasman Glacier and two helicopter flights. With a helicopter (or sometimes in the famous Mt Cook Skiplanes when we have lots of soft snow and snow shoes are used for glacier hiking to access the big ice formations!), we are able to access and explore the “white ice” of the world famous Tasman Glacier where it runs beside the biggest mountains in New Zealand, including Aoraki Mount Cook, and where it often creates spectacular ice formations. Our helicopter flights are twice as long as the Fox or Franz Glacier flights therefore offering a great scenic flight of Aoraki Mount Cook and the Southern Alps. The Tasman Glacier is the longest glacier in the Southern Hemisphere outside of the Antarctic and the ice is hundreds of metres thick. Equipped with crampons and walking poles, we board our aircraft. Traveling high above the amazing icebergs of the Tasman Glacier Lake, we fly past the famous Hochstetter Ice Fall and the mighty Aoraki/Mount Cook. The landing on the Tasman Glacier is surrounded by the biggest and the most impressive mountains in New Zealand. And this is where we begin our adventure and exploration on the glacier ice. Outfitted with specially designed crampons for these ice conditions by your guide, the adventure of hiking on the glacier begins. Your guide cuts steps in the ice, which enables you to explore the amazing ice formations on the glacier. The guide will also give informative facts about the Tasman Glacier, how it flows and what makes the crevasses, caves and sink-holes appear. Weather permitting, ice-walking time is about two hours. Please note that this is a natural and ever-changing environment, so there is no guarantee that specific features will be seen. Check out our Facebook page Southern Alps Guiding for some recent photos of trips and our Trip Advisor comments. We meet and check in at The Old Mountaineers’ Café Bar where the Southern Alps Guiding office is situated, next door to the DOC visitor information centre at 9.00am. Credit Card details (Visa or M/card only) are required to secure bookings. Please go to our website to make the booking. Please supply the following when making your booking: - Tick the trip and your preferred date in the comments. - your accommodation details while in the area. - your mobile phone number if you will have one with you. Fitness level required: low to moderate Trip Duration: Approximately three - four hours Cost: NZ$575 PER PERSON. Includes two aircraft scenic flights, guide fee, any equipment that is required, DOC permit fees and GST. Southern Alps Guiding – ph: 0274 342277. Situated at The Old Mountaineers Café Bar, next door to the DOC Visitor Information Centre, Aoraki Mt Cook. IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Cancellation Policy We reserve the right to cancel or change any part of any trip. This could be due to adverse snow, avalanche, mountain or weather conditions or any other mountain related scenario. We have a strict 36 hour cancellation policy which means that if WE cancel the trip due to any of the above conditions will give you a full refund. If you decide not to do the trip within 36 hours of the trip start time for any reason (you sleep in, have a vehicle breakdown, an unexpected illness or injury etc) or we cancel your booking because of client unsuitability due to poor fitness or health there will be no refund. Please ensure you have travel insurance to cover all potential cancellation scenarios. We also reserve the right to cancel because of inadequate experience due to ability and conditions. Credit Card details are used only to hold the booking. No money is taken from your card except if the cancellation policy comes into force. We are Safety Audited Certified. Warmest regards Charlie Hobbs

Thanks for your email regarding our Tasman Glacier Heli Hiking. The minimum age is 8 years old. You can check our website for more information mtcook com Warmest wishes Charlie Hobbs

TASMAN GLACIER HELI-HIKE AND GLACIER HIKING with Southern Alps Guiding Hi Thank you for your email regarding our heli hiking trips on the famous Tasman Glacier. Our company offers unique personalised heli hiking without being around big groups. We are the pioneers of heli hiking at Aoraki Mount Cook and the operation is Aoraki Mt Cook family owned. Our guides, Charlie and Ant, are the “Legends” of Tasman Glacier Guiding and have vast amounts of experience and knowledge of the area. Our classic fly-in, fly-out heli-hike combines the excitement of Glacier Hiking on the mighty Tasman Glacier and two helicopter flights. With a helicopter (or sometimes in the famous Mt Cook Skiplanes when we have lots of soft snow and snow shoes are used for glacier hiking to access the big ice formations!), we are able to access and explore the “white ice” of the world famous Tasman Glacier where it runs beside the biggest mountains in New Zealand, including Aoraki Mount Cook, and where it often creates spectacular ice formations. Our helicopter flights are twice as long as the Fox or Franz Glacier flights therefore offering a great scenic flight of Aoraki Mount Cook and the Southern Alps. The Tasman Glacier is the longest glacier in the Southern Hemisphere outside of the Antarctic and the ice is hundreds of metres thick. Equipped with crampons and walking poles, we board our aircraft. Traveling high above the amazing icebergs of the Tasman Glacier Lake, we fly past the famous Hochstetter Ice Fall and the mighty Aoraki/Mount Cook. The landing on the Tasman Glacier is surrounded by the biggest and the most impressive mountains in New Zealand. And this is where we begin our adventure and exploration on the glacier ice. Outfitted with specially designed crampons for these ice conditions by your guide, the adventure of hiking on the glacier begins. Your guide cuts steps in the ice, which enables you to explore the amazing ice formations on the glacier. The guide will also give informative facts about the Tasman Glacier, how it flows and what makes the crevasses, caves and sink-holes appear. Weather permitting, ice-walking time is about two hours. Please note that this is a natural and ever-changing environment, so there is no guarantee that specific features will be seen. Check out our Facebook page Southern Alps Guiding for some recent photos of trips and our Trip Advisor comments. We meet at The Old Mountaineers’ Café Bar where the Southern Alps Guiding office is situated, next door to the DOC visitor information centre at 9.00am. Credit Card details (Visa or M/card only) are required to secure bookings. Please supply the following when making your booking: - Tick the trip and your preferred date in the comments. - your accommodation details while in the area. - your mobile phone number if you will have one with you. Fitness level required: low to moderate Trip Duration: Approximately three - four hours Cost: NZ$565 PER PERSON. Includes two aircraft scenic flights, guide fee, any equipment that is required, permit fees and GST. Southern Alps Guiding – ph: 03 4351 890 fax: 03 4351 293 cell: 0274 342277. Situated at The Old Mountaineers Café Bar, next door to the DOC Visitor Information Centre, Aoraki Mt Cook. IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Cancellation Policy We reserve the right to cancel or change any part of any trip. This could be due to adverse snow, avalanche, mountain or weather conditions or any other mountain related scenario. We have a strict 24 hour cancellation policy which means that if WE cancel the trip due to any of the above conditions will give you a full refund. If you decide not to do the trip within 24 hours of the trip start time for any reason (you sleep in, have a vehicle breakdown, an unexpected illness or injury etc) or we cancel your booking because of client unsuitability due to poor fitness or health there will be no refund. Please ensure you have travel insurance to cover all potential cancellation scenarios. We also reserve the right to cancel because of inadequate experience due to ability and conditions. Credit Card details are used only to hold the booking. No money is taken from your card except if the cancellation policy comes into force. We are Safety Audited Certified. Warmest regards Charlie Hobbs