Early morning rays illuminate Mt Cook as the crew prepare to head into Wilderness Heli country.

Last winter served up bugger all powder days on the resorts down South, so it was pretty easy to talk Nick Hyne, Will Jackways, Joram Makura and Mitch Brown into getting aboard the bird to head into New Zealand’s premiere heli destination in search of that elusive white gold…. Hyner spills the beans in our August issue…