Mountaineers from all over the world attempt to climb the highest peak on each of the world's seven continents including Australia's Mount Kosciuszko. Whether it is in winter on snowshoes or summer in hiking boots SMBC will take you to the top of Australia! Not restricted by altitude difficulties, Kosi is a reasonably straight forward objective but can be often plagued by extremely strong winds, poor visibility, snow & ice.

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Enjoy a great day out anytime of the year with Australia's leading adventure specialists to bag Australia's highest peak & one of your seven summits! SMBC will guide you to the top whilst sharing natural & cultural interpretive information with you & discuss contingency plans & strategies for backcountry survival. We believe it’s always good to take a few learning experiences away with you but this isn’t a course & we will gauge just how much knowledge you would like.

 

Guiding Topics

• Safety Brief

• Equipment familiarisation

• Route Overview

• Snow shoeing techniques

• Route selection

• Emergency shelters, Hypothermia

• Backcountry etiquette

 

Route:

• Mt Kosciuszko from Thredbo, 13km return

• Mt Kosciuszko from Charlotte Pass, 18km return: summer route

 

Rating: Moderate to Arduous, route dependent. Requires a good level of

fitness. Distance13km + with climbs generally less than 500 vertical meters.

 

Duration: 6+hrs approx 

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Meeting Place

• Thredbo Ticket office at Valley Terminal:

  • 8:00am WINTER

  • 8:30am summer

• Other routes from Charlotte Pass are available for summer​

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Experience Required

• No previous experience required

• Minimum age is 16yro unless booking as a private group!

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Group Size

• 1:10 guide to client ratio

• Minimum numbers apply

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Included

• Snowshoes & Walking Poles

• Guiding & Instruction

• Guide will carry all necesary safety & communication gear.

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Note:

This tour requires a lift ticket to be purchsed on the morning of the tour at Thredbo

We will meet at Valley Terminal in Thredbo by 8:00a.m. It is essential that the group leaves as soon as the chairlift opens at 8:30am sharp & has returned at a suitable time to ride the chairlift down. Each person must have a return ticket to ride the Kosciuszko Chair lift at the beginning & end of the tour. This tour is 13km return & without the chairlfit support the summit is not achievable. The tour is entirely in the treeless Alpine terrain which affords very little shelter & can experience incredible wind speeds. Suitable conditions will be required on the day & correct equipment as per the SNOWSHOE EQUIPMENT LIST is essential.

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MT TATE ALTERNATIVE: If you have already summited Mt Kosciuszko, Mt Tate is another great route or an alternate route to Kosi! This journey commences from SMBC HQ at Guthega & is a more scenic & arduous 13km return route. Rating is...TOUGH MORE DETAIL