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mountaineering courses in NZ 15-Aug-2006 At 2:48:20 PM JohnK

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another thing to consider is where the course is run. Ideally you want to do a course in the same area you are likely to go back and climb in. Same with the walking out bit. do a course where you have to walk out rather than fly out. The best part about the TMC courses by Alpine Guides is the location and the fact that mostly they fly in and walk out from the Upper Tasman. Getting experience in the Tasman Glacier area means that you will be confident after the course in venturing into an area on your own where you can spend many years afterwards ticking some of NZ's best peaks.
As someone else said, if you can get into a course with smaller numbers of people at your level that's the best. Simply find out from the school how many bookings they have for each date and what sort of people they have booked. So if it's a very large group with only begginers, then shuffle yourself to another date, or get together with some friends and hire a personal guide to teach you.