Description
Mt Aspiring Full Day Canyoning Adventure tour isn’t just canyoning – it’s your golden ticket into one of New Zealand’s most untouched and awe-inspiring wilderness areas: The Mt Aspiring National Park, part of the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Te Wāhipounamu. Surrounded by glaciated peaks, native beech forest, and crystal-clear alpine water, this canyon is only accessible with our expert team – and only by a handful of lucky adventurers each season.
You’ll explore an environment shaped by ancient water, still wild and largely unseen. No crowds. No queues. Just pure, unfiltered Aotearoa.
Included:
- Swimwear and a towel
- All canyoning equipment
- A professional and experienced guide
- Return transfers from Queenstown or Wanaka
- Picnic style lunch
What to Bring:
- Swimwear and a towel
- A bottle of water
- Personal medications
Experience Level
You don’t need any prior experience, but you should have a medium level of fitness and good swimming ability. You’ll need to be physically able to strut your stuff in a wetsuit for up to 3 hours navigating through the terrain with walks, climbs, swims, jumps and moves that’ll leave you feeling totally accomplished! The time spent in the canyon can vary depending on the groups ability, but is usually up to 3 hours of canyoning time.
Mt Aspiring Full Day Canyoning Adventure (Level 1) Tour Itinerary
- 8.15am – Meeting at our central pick up location, OUTSIDE the Eichardts Hotel, 2 Marine Parade, Queenstown
- 8.20am – Participants check in and are given a verbal safety briefing on the adventure
- 8.30am – Depart Queenstown and transfer through Wanaka to Makarora
- 9.30am – Arrive at Wanaka, pick up any guests at our one central Wanaka pick up location, OUTSIDE the Wanaka iSITE, 103 Ardmore Street Wanaka
- 10.30am – Arrive at Makarora for a toilet stop, here we take a 30 minute break
- 11.20am – Arrive at the canyon, participants are issued equipment to get dressed for the adventure.
- 11.35am – Hike up and into the canyon, approximately 20 minutes, followed by safety demonstration and explanation
- 12.30pm – Canyoning time, walking, abseiling, sliding, jumping, swimming and climbing into and through the canyon
- 3.15pm – Undressing and changing
- 3.30pm – We take a 30 minute lunch break
- 4pm – Depart Makarora through Wanaka for Queenstown
- 6pm – Arrive back at Queenstown, participants are dropped off
Important Info
Safety
Canyoning New Zealand is an adventure activity that is safety audited annually to the highest standards. Part of our responsibility is to ensure all participants understand the risks of participating prior to booking their tickets.
The trip is mentally and physically demanding and requires the participants to be English speaking, comfortable and confident with moving over uneven and possibly slippery terrain, being in the water and dealing with heights.
Cancellation Policy:
All cancellations must be made in writing via email: info@canyoningnewzealand.co.nz
All tickets are 100% non-refundable within 48 hours of departure for any reason.
All tickets will be 100% charged at the time of booking.
All tickets are not transferrable.
Cancelled tickets include customers unable to travel due to not meeting suitability requirements.
Terms & Conditions:
All cancellations must be made in writing via email.
Full payment is required at the time of booking.
Booking a ticket does not guarantee you to be a suitable participant. If you book a ticket and are found to be un-suitable all tickets are non-refundable within 48 hours of departure.
It is at the guide’s discretion to screen all participants to determine suitability requirements are met and that clients are physically able to participate.
Clients must be physically able to complete the activity in the allowed time duration.
Unsuitable people include and are not limited to those with severe heart conditions, severe back conditions, those who are pregnant and those that are under the influence of drugs and or alcohol.
If recovering from an injury or on medication it is advised that you seek medical advice on your suitability before commencing on a trip.
This activity requires all participants to have specific ability requirements that are location specific:
– Gibbston Valley Beginner Tours – Medium fitness, water confidence and English speaking.
– Glenorchy Paradise Beginner Tour – Medium fitness, water confidence and English speaking.
– Mt Aspiring Beginner Tour – Medium fitness, good swimming ability and English speaking.
– Queenstown Cliff Jumping Abseiling Beginner Tour – Medium fitness, good swimming ability and English speaking.
– Aspiring XXL Intermediate Tour – Medium fitness, good swimming ability in moving water (like the ocean), comfortability with heights and English speaking.
– Aspiring MAX Advanced Tour – High fitness, good swimming ability in moving water (like the ocean), comfortable with heights and moving around exposed edges and English speaking.
Where multiple tickets are purchased, any cancellations made within 48 hours of departure resulting in only 1 person now travelling from the multi purchased tickets, will result in cancellation of the trip with all tickets charged and not refundable.
Damage or loss to any equipment will be charged.
If the equipment is soiled a cleaning fee will be charged.
If clients do not cancel and simply do not show up, the booking will also be 100% charged.
Minimum numbers are required on every trip and Canyoning New Zealand reserves the right to cancel any trip when these numbers are not met.
Canyoning New Zealand reserves the right to cancel any trip due to weather, customers suitability and guiding ratios.
All customers must be well for travel, any customer seen to be unwell cannot travel and these tickets will not be refunded.
This activity holds age restrictions per location:
– Gibbston Valley Beginner Tours – age limits are 10 years minimum and 60 years maximum.
– Glenorchy Paradise Beginner Tour – age limits are 10 years minimum and 60 years maximum.
– Mt Aspiring Beginner Tour – age limits are 12 years minimum and 60 years maximum.
– Queenstown Cliff Jumping Abseiling Beginner Tour – age limits are 10 years minimum and 60 years maximum.
– Aspiring XXL Intermediate Tour – age limits are 16 years minimum and 60 years maximum.
– Aspiring MAX Advanced Tour – age limits are 16 years minimum and 60 years maximum.
All participants 16 years and under require their legal guardian to sign our risk acknowledgement form prior to travel or at check in.
All participants ages 10-14 years require a supervisor to accompany them on the trip aged 16 years or older.
Participants 14 years and under that wish to travel without a supervisor accompanying them require further screening from our reservations team before the departure date.
When booking in larger groups, we can’t guarantee you will be traveling as one group, this split is dependent on the days numbers and groups ability.
Time spent in the canyon is approximate and will vary depending on the group’s ability.
Photos either pre-purchased or brought on the day of departure are non-refundable after they have been emailed to you. Please make sure you view them on your tour so if you’re not happy with the quality, you can request a refund before they are emailed to you.
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