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New Zealand Alpine Club

Index New Zealand Alpine Club

The New Zealand Alpine Club (NZAC) was founded in 1891 and is one of the oldest alpine clubs in the world. [1]

26 relations: Arrowsmith Range, Auckland, Australia, Bouldering, Christchurch, Dunedin, Edmund Hillary, Ice climbing, International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation, Kaikoura Ranges, List of alpine clubs, List of mountains of New Zealand by height, Mount Everest, Mount Ngauruhoe, Mount Ruapehu, Mount Taranaki, Mount Tongariro, Mountain hut, Mountaineering, New Zealand, North Island Volcanic Plateau, Rock climbing, Southern Alps, Sport climbing, Tenzing Norgay, Traditional climbing.

Arrowsmith Range

The Arrowsmith Range is a mountain range in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Auckland

Auckland is a city in New Zealand's North Island.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Bouldering

Bouldering is a form of rock climbing that is performed on small rock formations or artificial rock walls, known as boulders, without the use of ropes or harnesses.

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Christchurch

Christchurch (Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region.

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Dunedin

Dunedin (Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago region.

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Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary OSN (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist.

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Ice climbing

Ice climbing is the activity of ascending inclined ice formations.

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International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation

The International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation, commonly known by its French name Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA, lit. International Union of Alpine Clubs) was founded in August 1932 in Chamonix, France when 20 mountaineering associations met for an alpine congress.

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Kaikoura Ranges

The Kaikoura Ranges are two parallel ranges of mountains located in the northeast of the South Island of New Zealand.

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List of alpine clubs

The first Alpine Club, Alpine Club (UK), was founded in London in 1857.

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List of mountains of New Zealand by height

The following are lists of mountains in New Zealand ordered by height.

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Mount Everest

Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmāthā and in Tibetan as Chomolungma, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.

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Mount Ngauruhoe

Mount Ngauruhoe is an active stratovolcano or composite cone in New Zealand, made from layers of lava and tephra.

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Mount Ruapehu

Mount Ruapehu, also known simply as Ruapehu, is an active stratovolcano at the southern end of the Taupo Volcanic Zone in New Zealand.

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Mount Taranaki

Mount Taranaki, or Mount Egmont, is an active but quiescent stratovolcano in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island.

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Mount Tongariro

Mount Tongariro is a compound volcano in the Taupo Volcanic Zone of the North Island of New Zealand.

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Mountain hut

A mountain hut (also known as alpine hut, mountain shelter, mountain refuge, mountain lodge, and mountain hostel) is a building located high in the mountains, generally accessible only by foot, intended to provide food and shelter to mountaineers, climbers and hikers.

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Mountaineering

Mountaineering is the sport of mountain climbing.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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North Island Volcanic Plateau

The North Island Volcanic Plateau (often called the Central Plateau and occasionally the Waimarino Plateau) is a volcanic plateau covering much of central North Island of New Zealand with volcanoes, lava plateaus, and crater lakes.

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Rock climbing

Rock climbing is an activity in which participants climb up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls.

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Southern Alps

The Southern Alps (Kā Tiritiri-o-te-Moana) is a mountain range extending along much of the length of New Zealand's South Island, reaching its greatest elevations near the range's western side.

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Sport climbing

Sport climbing is a form of rock climbing that relies on permanent anchors fixed to the rock for protection.

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Tenzing Norgay

Tenzing Norgay GM OSN (tendzin norgyé; 29 May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi and often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepali Sherpa mountaineer.

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Traditional climbing

Traditional climbing, or trad climbing, is a style of rock climbing in which a climber or group of climbers place all gear required to protect against falls, and remove it when a pitch is complete.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Alpine_Club

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