NZ Ski
Adventures
Is it time to head into the backcountry this winter? Everyone here knows - The best part is untracked terrain and getting away from the crowds. Whether you’re looking for something luxury, a single day or to get out on a glacier, we’ve got many ski trips to choose from. Located at the foot of the Southern Alps, Wanaka provides outstanding access and facilities to create a fantastic winter ski touring & backcountry snowboarding holiday.
Let’s go to the peak of adventure.
This is the real world. Come and see it for yourself—dip your toes into adventure and sink your teeth these incredible places.
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Venture
beyond the
beaten track
Professional care leads the way
Let us take care of the logistics so you can enjoy the thrill of the adventure knowing you’ve got professional, experienced, and qualified guides alongside you every step of the way.
Curating memorable experiences
Uncover an appreciation for the environment that you’ll want to hold onto with both hands, and never let go. Descend from the crux ready to go again—we’re here for your next adventure; have this moment again and again. We promise you; this never gets old.
What our Customers say
about us?
Hear directly from the adventurers who’ve joined us. Their stories of success and transformation highlight the extraordinary experiences that await you with Aspiring Guides.
Aspiring guides delivered an amazing adventure for our group. Our guides, Jimmy and Dean, gave us the confidence to explore the back country and delivered exceptional hospitality, adventure and laughs for the whole trip! Highly recommend these fellas.
We had a great Black Peak hut trip of four days with our excellent guide Andrew - and this despite one day of very high winds and rain. The upside of that day was good fresh snow high up. Andrew was a great guide - very friendly, combing both a customer and safety focus, not to mention cooking skills. I learned a lot from him about the practical aspects of avalanche risk detection. The hut is small but very cosy with all one needs for a few days stay. A back-country trip there is highly recommended. Robin
Great trip, great people. Perfect trip to gain back country experience and confidence. Our trip was affected by the weather but AG had a great back up plan which worked out really well.
Can't rate this crew enough. Magic adventure overnight ski touring at Black Peak with Sarah and Deano. You beauties!
Perfect course was run for avalanche awareness. Couldn't have asked for anything better. Couldn't recommend enough if you are looking at doing any ski related touring activities or courses around the Wanaka region. Thanks again
10/10. These guys are a pleasure to work with. Super accomodating and the guides made everyone feel comfortable and safe on our avalanche course. We came away feeling equiped with the knowledge we need moving forward and also had a super fun time with this lot! Couldn’t recommend more.
Fantastic trip - great guide, great organisation behind the scenes. Will definitely be back for more!
Recently completed 4 day Robrosa ski tour and split boarding tour. Excellent guiding and teaching from our guide Sarah, and all together a great company to deal with. Would highly recommend these guys
For those looking for a challenge and a unique experience, I would highly recommend booking a trip with Aspiring Guides. The team are very professional and my time on the Mt Cook Glacier was awesome. My guide Kim came with heaps of experience and technical competency and made the week both enjoyable and a good challenge. The admin support, supplied equipment and pre-planning made everything easy, especially coming from overseas.
The experience lived up to my highest hopes. I have been looking at Black Peak for years from my lounge window thinking how cool would it be to get to the top of it one day.
Aspiring Guides helped me achieve that dream
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We’re at our best when we’re scaling rock, ice and snow but we give this email thing a crack every so often (Monthly-ish). If you want to hear about new adventures and trip updates, we'd love for you to join our newsletter.
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Our Partners
Aspiring Guides is a guiding company based in Wānaka, New Zealand. We help people form a real connection with the outdoors. Whatever your adventure aspirations, we’re here to get you there. Here are the partners that help us make your adventure possible.
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