See Mount Aspiring National Park from the air — the Southern Alps west of Queenstown: a divide of ice, native forest, and hanging icefalls, with Mount Aspiring in the massif. The Wakatipu Basin falls away behind you.
Only the 50-minute Southern Glacier is built around this landscape. It follows the northern shores of the lake, then the Alps, and lands in snow among the peaks. The 25-minute Helicopter Tour with Alpine Landing and the 35-minute Grand Circle stay in the basin; they do not go this far west.
You do not walk a park track and you do not fly a fixed route onto a named hut. You see the icefalls from the helicopter, then a snow landing the pilot sets for the day.
Those extra minutes over the Grand Circle are the whole point of this product: glaciers and national-park ice instead of another Queenstown-basin precipice. If you want Shotover and Coronet, stay on the 35-minute flight.
Book the 50-minute Southern Glacier and see Mount Aspiring National Park from the air.
See Mount Aspiring National Park from a helicopter over Queenstown. Book the Queenstown 50-Minute Southern Glacier Helicopter Tour.