Queenstown adventurer Erik Bradshaw completed the first ski traverse of the Southern Alps when he reached Fiordland after 800 kilometres on snowy ridges, glaciers and plateaus.
Bradshaw began his journey on August 8 from St Arnaud in the Nelson Lakes and finished on October 26 in Fiordland. He skied along the spine of the South Island - a journey with the vertical-metre equivalent of climbing Mt Everest 6 times.
Elie de Beaumont and the Minarets that Erik passed on skis. Photo: Bob McKerrow
This is the first time the Southern Alps have been traversed on skis and the second ever winter traverse. My old friends Graeme Dingle and the late Jill Tremaine traversed the Alps during the winter of 1971. In 1990,when I was working for NZ Adventure Magazine and NZ Geographic, Mike Abbott did a full solo traverse on foot. We ran his story in the geographic.
To complete the journey Bradshaw invented ski equipment including a unique exoskeleton binding that fits over a walking boot to transform it into a ski boot with crampons.
"Without doubt it is the hardest thing I have ever done," said Bradshaw.
"I had to know what would work and what was too dangerous. If I was too timid I would never succeed, but if I was too bold I wouldn’t make it home. I pushed myself very hard for 12 hours per day, skiing and climbing then camping in sub-zero temperatures."
Mt.Evans in winter. Photo taken from Red Lion peak. The Waitaha Valley and County stream are cold and inhospitable in winter.Photo: Bob McKerrow
The traverse was completed in several legs with Bradshaw stopping to restock and repair equipment. At one point he broke a pair skis and had to make a replacement pair.
During the traverse Bradshaw survived sub zero temperatures and raging storms in a tiny tent.
"Sometimes it was miserable, in a small tent coated in ice being flattened by a storm knowing you are a long way from home. But other times it was breathtakingly beautiful with towering snow capped mountains, blue skies and amazing snow."
Erik Bradshaw would have had stunning winter views of all the high peaks of the Southern Alps from Elie de Beaumont (left) to Aoraki Cook on the right.. Taken from Okarito trig. Photo: Bob McKerrow
Highlights of the trip were remote areas such as the Snowball and Volta Glaciers, the Upper Hunter and Te Naihi Rivers and the Garden of Allah and Eden Ice Plateaus.
“It was a real treat to visit such places and some areas such as the Te Naihi have probably never been visited on skis before. We have fantastic powder skiing in our mountains that I hadn’t experienced before."
One of the reasons I am so thrilled for Erik Bradshaw as I did quite a few winter trips myself on skiis, and one solo one. so I can understand the loneliness, the extreme temperatures and the avalanche dangers he faced. Mounts Haast, Lendenfeld, Tasman and Aoraki Cook, plasterd by heavy winter snows.Photo: Bob McKedrrow collection
Bradshaw started backcountry skiing when he was 15 and has been a keen mountain climber since he could walk. He has climbed and skied throughout New Zealand and Antarctica. In 2006, with partner Christine Ryan, he was awarded a Royal Humane Society Bravery medal for the rescue of trampers in the Matukituki Valley near Aspiring National Park. He and Ryan run a tourism-specific software business which provides comprehensive management systems for some New Zealand tourism companies. They have a 15-month-old son and live in Queenstown.
What a wonderful achievement for such a brave mountaineer.
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1 – 200 of 202 Newer› Newest»Hi Bob
Thanks for this inspiring story. What a journey eh! And we had some wicked storms that be mentally challenging alone, tired and with so little daylight.
Cheers
Donald
Donald,indeed an epic journey that will etched in our mountain folklore.
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