What’s in my pack: Gear for a 1 month mountaineering expedition 

thanks Andrew!

Thanks Jan!

Good idea perhaps will do another in winter time Gear would be fairly similar to be honest! Perhaps softshell pants instead of lightweight waterproof pants for extra warmth

Absolutely, trimming unnecessary weight is a task for everyone not just elites

You feel much less guilty about plastic with the compostable bags! I used compostic brand

Great stuff Nathan

Doco is on its way later this year!

@@NewZealandAlpineTeam epic! Can't wait!!

thanks Elliot! its all you need for summer with the right down jacket!

glad it works for you!

Never have frozen boots in the morning again!

we have plenty of jungle style mountains too! greetings!

Check it out on utube...very shaky at first...

its a nifty tool!

in NZ we have solar panels at huts so solar panels were not needed, you would have to calculate which is lighter based on how much power you need for how many days... sounds like an engineering problem.

Good question, forgot to include in video about anchors. 2x 5m 6mm cord for anchors and can also cut for abseils. 4 locking carabiners is better.

All the NZ peaks above 3000m, there are 24 of them.

Macpac will be putting them out as an accessory soon, Inov8 used to make some, its a commodity item, have a search around !

Do it Seb!!

Standard glacier travel equipment, rope carabiners slings microtraxion etc

That's a personal preference, I prefer the reliability & durability of a foam pad and find I slide around on an air mattress if not perfectly flat slope. 7 panels of thermarest doesn't take up much room on side of pack, and is much quicker setup/pack down

I'd say it's more important to have weight on the hammer than the adze for snowstakes, pitons etc. I don't personally use the adze very much. But sure have more weight on the tool which you'll use more.

1. We wore trail shoes for the approach up copland and for sefton to snowline. Left at douglas rock hut as hut shoes. G5s all the way to tasman glacier, had trail shoes in tasman saddle hut drop. Boots got wet in wet snow but dried out in afternoons. 2. One per team for us 3. Macpac NZAT Pursuit 40L

@@NewZealandAlpineTeam awesome. Thank you. Really insightful vid, cheers.

Engineering consulting

Its the mont bell mighty dome 2, great little tent

I have used neo air xlite before, but in this case we went for the lightest option which was 7 panels (90cm) of zlite mat, considering we were only camping 5 nights, summer conditions, more reliable as no chance of puncturing, easier to set up/pack down. It comes down to personal preference.

X dreams are heavy technical tools for steep terrain, not all round mountaineering tools! Quark & gully saves a lot of weight, maybe 500g

When fully loaded with 5 days food, Id estimate 18kg, but did not weigh. Macpac Pursuit 40L pack.

Only two team members for the trip: Alastair & Hamish

yes its often suitable to go for quite a light harness for mountaineering, even with a full single rack. can't say I've tried a whillans but seems he was ahead of his time!

Showa Temres 282-02 www.alpineteam.co.nz/2021/showa-temres-282-glove-review

Yes it can do so try vent the steam outside, maybe boil water just outside the tent.

Its a risk analysis based on the terrain, season & expected snow conditions Shovel is useful for camp setup also.

@@NewZealandAlpineTeam yeah, no I get that. Maybe youtube comments isn't the best place for it. Hopefully i don't appear like a knob arguing on the internet. I meant more specifically. With your chosen approach, if you were to encounter a burial scenario where one climber is fully buried, only 50% of the time could that person be self rescued. Ergo did you decide to take the transceivers because you were taking the shovel anyway? It just seems that you were very much gram counting, so I was puzzled how you reached the 50%, for such a weight penalty. It's not like you would have been stopping to swap the shovel between yourselves in avi terrain. I had thoughts transceiver and shovel each, or just skip it. Trying to understand, not critique 😄

@@hugh4658 the person with the shovel can walk at the back. Again, make your own decisions based on the terrain and conditions.

@@NewZealandAlpineTeam gotcha re the system. Makes sense. Cheers for the replies. Always learning.

@@hugh4658 as always the best strategy is to avoid getting avalanched in the first place! Summer mountaineering is typically done so early while snow conditions are frozen and ideally you finish the descent before things heat up too much. Also storms in this trip were fortunately all warm rain so we didnt have to worry about waiting long for settling.

Macpac

Good question, I find merino dries very slowly I never wear it. I wear synthetic tshirt or long sleeve with hood. Wear less clothes to avoid sweating. If you still get sweaty when it gets cold ie above the bushline, take off the tshirt and put on a dry baselayer next to skin and wear the shirt on top to dry it out on the outside.

@@amcd061 great advice. Thank you

Strip layers off until you stop sweating, I’ve had to strip all the way down to may base layer at 0 degrees just cause I’m moving that much and I’m imagining you are too

​@@HeightsChasing Yeah I think it's basically just move slower or strip layers. Merino does dry slowly but at least it feels better than plastic against your skin, I can't stand a polyprop base layer.

You should have to adapt your clipping technique and they are fine!

The hardest peak to climb would be either Torres or Hicks.

The amount of sodium flouride toothpaste an adult male would need to consume to poison himself is something like two to three tubes in an hour.....and even that is easily reversible for many hours. The "do not swallow" warning is a much bigger deal with children and important for adults massing fewer than 50kg. Using the dried tabs Alastair chose is perfectly safe and reasonable. (Hydroflouric acid on the other hand is dangerous stuff. You won't feel the "burn" and it will kill you anyway. One should also avoid swallowing too much diatomaceous earth, it can really tear you up.)

I would if I was not allergic to peanuts!

@@NewZealandAlpineTeam oh man :(