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Alpine Grandeur Zone's    Main Attractions

Alps of the World - in a day

Interested groups can climb among them learn about their life cycles, geology, erosion, weather influences, settlements, recreation, flora and fauna, tourism, conservation managements and transport factors.

Experience the Andes, Himalayas, European Alps and Rockies and all their wonders . Walking trails lead us among these awesome giants. Interested groups can climb among them following safe trails yet gain insight to their grandeur and challenge they can give for climbers   

There are snow avalanches, hanging glaciers, slips, screes, fans, rivers of rock, glaciers icebergs and forming lakes.

Studies  learn about their life cycles, geology, erosion, weather influences, settlements, recreation, flora and fauna, tourism, conservation managements and transport factors.
Interested groups learn of the causes and effects of the direct collision impact of the world's 2 largest tectonic plates that compresses and uplift these solid rock giants.  We see how the Roaring Forties deliver the ice and vast amounts water that then gouge and dismantle these hard edifices and deposit the debris material into ancient glacier valleys and coastal alluvial plains   

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More about New Zealand's Mountains

Link images Southern Alps

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