News of Oceania and Pacific Islands

Something on the North Island for a change and not even in the Taranaki or Tongariro areas: The Kauaeranga Valley Pinnacles. Hope it's useful.

Still working on writing up my trip to Tassie earlier this year. Latest addition is Ben Lomond and Legges Tor near Launceston. This is the second highest point in Tasmania. You can almost drive up but I wrote up a route that at least makes it a bit more effort and worth doing. Hope it's useful to anyone heading that way.

Interesting... check this out:

Austrian Skiers Bid On Caroline Face
11:06 am, 07 Nov 2006

Two Austrian skiers hope to be the first to ski down the icy, avalanche-prone Caroline Face on Mt Cook.

The attempt has been likened to trying to stay upright on a pane of glass tilted on a 55 degree angle.

Andy Salek, from Queenstown-based company Making Movies which plans to film the bid, says the pair will climb the east ...

Has anyone heard of anyone climbing Mauna Kea from sea level? I'll be doing this in the coming weeks and was hoping to hear of how it was done. I have a plan of action already but a little help never hurts.

Two climbers have been rescued on Mt Tibrogargan. They were winched off after managing to reconstruct a shattered cell phone to call out.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/20 ... 758104.htm

Can a regular 2WD car make it to the summit area of Manua Kea?

Anyone interested in joining a Puncak Jaya trek November 2006 please contact me for further details.
Fly from Timika to Boega then trek to Puncak Jaya and climb the mountain and trek back out again
Kind Regards
Roger

Gruezi

Since I am a very lucky person and able to spend 2 month (September and October) in New Zealand, I'd like to take the opportunity and climb Mt Cook (and maybe other peaks) some time during October (if weather permits). The standard route seems most reasonable, going up as high as possible with the skis and then trying to peak.
Since I am coming from the other end of the world, i.e. from Switzerland, ...

A crampon was the cause of New Zealand
climber Dawn Wood's accident after a slip on Scotts Knob
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3757581a10,00.html
She will go back
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story ... D=10395346

Good news, the Glasshouse mountains have just been listed as the 32nd site in Australia to be listed as a world heritage conservation area.