Qualmark Enviro Award Silver Visitor Activity

Your Trip - Jet, Walk, Heli

Helicopter (available)

Showcase

  • Meeting the Jet boat!
  • Lifting off for the Glacier.
  • Waterfalls under the ice
  • Close up of Glacier with the Heli
  • Close up of the Glacier from Helicopter.
  • It's a happy place!
  • The Roller coaster, Where's that Jet Boat?
  • Back to the Jet boat!

This is a great opportunity to capture a close up look at the huge glacial area beneath Mount Aspiring with this unique combination of jet boating, helicopter flight, and wilderness walk.

Board the helicopter from the river bank for a scenic helicopter flight. See hanging valleys where glaciers once lay and waterfalls that cascade from under giants of ice into the streams and rivers that feed into the Matukituki River. During this unique New Zealand glacier tour experience a high altitude snow landing overlooking Mount Aspiring. Disembark the helicopter for photos before flying down into the Matukituki Valley to join the guided wilderness walk and return leg of the Jet Boat tour.

What You Should Bring

  • Camera- Important!
  • Sunglasses
  • Hat and sunscreen in summer
  • Warm jacket
  • Warm layers and warm jacket in the winter

What We Supply

  • 25 minutes with helicopter for views of Glaciers and Mount Aspiring
  • High Altitude snow landing
  • Informative local pilots from Aspiring Helicopters
  • Hats and Gloves
  • Fantastic photo opportunities 

To book

"Mo te Tangata mo te Whenua" - It's about the people, it's about the place