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Helicopter Line - Franz Josef Glacier HELI HIKE (Ex Franz Josef)

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Embark on one of the world’s most breathtaking alpine excursions and get up close and personal to the remarkable beauty and awe-inspiring environment of the Franz Josef Glacier.

Highlights

Breathtaking helicopter flight to Franz Josef Glacier
Glacier Landing included in your experience!
Approx 2 hour hike amongst ancient glacial formations

This once in a lifetime experience gets you to the very heart of this incredible glacial environment - exposing the most spectacular ice formations, mighty pinnacles, and pristine alpine terrain.

You’ll have the opportunity to experience this ancient glacial environment from astounding aerial view before exploring by foot, and even descending into the glacier itself!

A truly immersive experience that will be treasured for a lifetime, the Franz Josef Glacier Heli Hike is the ultimate journey into New Zealand’s alpine paradise!

Adult $795.00

Child $795.00 (8-14 years)

What's included

Scenic Helicopter Flight
Glacier Landing and Hike
Experienced Guide
All equipment (glacier boots, socks, ice crampons, waterproof jacket and pants)

Duration

Allow approximately 3 hours for the whole experience

Location

Check in is from the Franz Josef Glacier Guides office
63 Cron Street
Franz Josef / Waiau 7886.

Restrictions

Minimum age: 10
Minimum age is 10 years old.

Notes

Please Note: Moderate fitness required.
The Heli Hike experience is weather dependent.
Safety Notes:
Your safety is our highest priority so we reserve the right to cancel your booking depending on health and agility considerations.
For safety reasons, we have a weight limit of 120kg. This weight includes the gear we provide which can weigh up to 5kgs. Please be aware that if the gear takes your weight to over 120kg, you will not be able to participate.
Additionally, if you are pregnant you will not be able to participate.
We will do our best to accommodate you but occasionally cancellation may be unavoidable.
Departure Notes:
Check in times - please check in 1 hour prior to departure:
8:30am departure: 7:30am check in.
9:00am departure: 8:00am check in.
11:00am departure: 10:00am check in.
11:30am departure: 10:30am check in.

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Helicopter Line - Franz Josef Glacier HELI HIKE (Ex Franz Josef)

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etoneva from Bulgaria wrote on 20 March 2024

Nice tour

This tour is very professional made.

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laurettac from New Zealand wrote on 09 July 2023

Amazing day

We had an amazing day!! The tour guide, Jack, was very informative and fun. Will recommend this to everyone

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Jodie Thompson from United Kingdom wrote on 13 June 2023

The best experience ever

Found out about this trip over a year ago and finally got chance to do it. Was even better than expected and had the absolute best day! Alex our guide was great, such a nice guy and made the day so fun! Even took loads of pictures for us. We managed to walk through seracs and even crawled though an ice tunnel. Would recommend this to anyone, don't know what trip could beat it.

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scottw12 from United Kingdom wrote on 04 April 2023

Incredible Unique Experience

What an awesome activity! We thoroughly enjoyed our glacier hike and helicopter ride on a beautiful sunny day. Our guide, Cale, was excellent. He was super friendly, a great instructor and communicator. Not only did we feel very safe with him, but he also had a lot of knowledge about the glacier and answered any questions we had. The route we took was awesome, going through a stunning blue crevasse, past small icy waterfalls and over crunchy, slushy ice. Absolutely loved it, from the gearing up to the final walk back to base through the forest.

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Isabella Gamble from Australia wrote on 28 January 2023

Absolutely epic!

Enjoyed my time up at the glacier enormously, such a unique experience and the helicopter ride there and back is stunning! Big shout out to the crew that made it all happen, they come up to the ice every morning, assess conditions, carve new steps for us hikers and move the carabeena poles. Without a doubt worth the money and we are so glad we did this trip!!

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