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This comprehensive tramping and transalpine route guide covers the Otago Southern Alps (Routeburn, Earnslaw and Aspiring), South Westland (the Hollyford north to the Karangarua), Haast Pass and the Ohau/Hawea valleys.

Moir’s Guide South was first published in 1925 as Moir’s Guide Book and is recognised as the definitive, classic guide to the tramping and hunting areas of Fiordland and the Eyre, Snowdon and Takitimu Mountains. This completely revised seventh edition describes every known track and route in these areas which include New Zealand’s most famous tracks – the Milford, Routeburn, Hollyford, Greenstone-Caples, Hump Ridge and Kepler Tracks. The less well known, but equally spectacular Dusky and George Sound Tracks are also described. The route and track descriptions are matched to the level of experience parties are likely to have. For the popular tracks, the information provided will enable those with little experience to enjoy their tramp; those travelling through more challenging country will find the route descriptions indispensable. Moir’s Guide South is published by Great Southern Lakes Press in association with the New Zealand Alpine Club and is the companion guide to Moir’s Guide North, which describes the area north of the Hollyford to Mt Cook.

New Zealand is dominated by dramatic mountains, from the volcanoes of the North Island to the magnificent Southern Alps. The most prominent of these peaks are featured in this revised, expanded and updated book. Each of the 17 chapters is a tribute to one mountain, whose character and features, mythology and mountaineering history is evocatively described. The lavishly illustrated chapters conclude with a route guide for one classic route on the peak.

Participation in the sport of rock climbing has exploded in New Zealand in recent decades, and New Zealanders and visitors alike flock to the diverse range of crags and alpline cliffs that are found all over the country. Rock climbing is now taught in virtually all outdoor recreation courses, and the interest in the sport is also reflected in the many indoor climbing walls that have sprung up in virtually all urban areas in New Zealand. Classic Rock Climbing in New Zealand is the natural response to this interest, the latest in the 'Classic' series. As always, these books work by wrapping a high-quality photographic essay around a reflective and informed text on the subject to create a beautiful memento. The author, rock climber and professional mountain guide Mark Sedon, has followed the obvious geographic structure for writing the book, starting in Auckland, moving to the limestone outcrops of the Waikato, and the volcanic buttresses of Taupo and the North Island volcanoes. Moving south, Wellington, Golden Bay and the West Coast are featured, while the wider Canterbury region has plenty of superb climbing. And in the deep south the often spectacular and highly scenic climbing areas around Dunedin, Wanaka, Queenstown and Fiordland are all covered. The images have been collected together from the best climbing photographers in New Zealand. They are of the highest quality, and on the strength of this alone they will create a stunning book that anyone who enjoys rock climbing in New Zealand will not be able to overlook.

This beautifully photographed and sensitive book covers tramps that are more challenging than the best known tracks, but which typify the essential New Zealand tramping experience. The twelve trips described range from moderate three day tramps to more challenging multi-day adventures for the more experienced trampers. They include such North Island classics as the Tararua Peaks and the Kaweka/Kaimanawa Traverse and well known South Island tramps such as Nelson Lakes to Lewis Pass, the Three Passes at Arthur's Pass and the Dusky Track in Fiordland National Park. In addition the book also provides up to date information, route summaries and descriptive maps to create a must-have book for all trampers and lovers of New Zealand's wild places.

Nine of New Zealand's classic back country tracks described in words and pictures by Craig Potton, one of New Zealand's best known landscape photographers. Walks covered include Stewart Island's North-west Circuit, the Kepler, Milford, Routeburn, Heaphy and Abel Tasman tracks, circuits of Mt Taranaki, Ruapehu and Lake Waikaremoana.

A guide to rock climbing and bouldering around Lake Wanaka. Published by the Wanaka Rock Club Inc.

Mixed climbing and, especially, leash-less ice and rock climbing has gained much popularity recently. This surge of interest has lead to the development of new equipment, terminology, and techniques that has not yet been recorded in book form. How to Climb: Mixed Climbing is the first book to provide the world climbing community with cutting-edge information and technical tips about simultaneously climbing both rock and ice.