Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Climber Christian Hanson shares his experience with an avalanche while climbing Taranaki Maunga, New Zealand in 2012. His story reminds us to prepare and equip ourselves with the proper knowledge before any trip into Aotearoa’s mountains.

The New Zealand Avalanche Advisory (NZAA) supports backcountry participants such as mountaineers, climbers, skiers and snowboarders, and alpine trampers and hunters, in avalanche risk areas in New Zealand. The NZAA provides an avalanche forecasting system in thirteen key locations across the country during the relevant avalanche seasons.

The NZAA is owned and managed by the New Zealand Mountain Safety Council (MSC). Check New Zealand avalanche forecasts on avalanche.net.nz

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