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Help wanted!! Getting started in Mountaineering 10-Aug-2014 At 5:18:03 PM radson

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Howdy,

Disclosure alert - I am on the committee for the Aussie section of the New Zealand Alpine Club but have you checked out the benefits and contacts available with the NZAC. Check out the NZAC - Australia section on Facebook for more details or alpineclub.org.nz. Otherwise I am sure your university may have an outdoors club which may also have some cool contacts.

I was reading Andrew Lock's interview in vertical life magazine and he like many Aussie mountaineers went across the ditch and did a TMC (Technical Mountaineering Course with one of the NZ guiding companies. Check out alpine guides, aspiring guides, alpine recreation and adventure consultants.

If you are Australia bound for some time, check out this forum for people doing more multipitch or more 'adventurous' climbs rather than straight up sports climbs. Also have a crack at some of the more rugged bushwalks carrying all your own stuff as this helps with the quads needed for those extended trips up in the mountains.

Mountaineering like climbing can have a fairly established apprenticeship and you can progress in grades and/or altitudes and start to get a grasp of what niche of mountaineering you will enjoy.

Have fun

Brad