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New member perk: unlimited training at Queenstown Fight Centre.Queenstown Fight Club opened in Frankton in June, co-foun...
31/08/2026

New member perk: unlimited training at Queenstown Fight Centre.

Queenstown Fight Club opened in Frankton in June, co-founded by Mountain Club member Liisa Koskinen; she has designed a Mountain Club perk that gives you unlimited access to its full class timetable for $35 a week. Muay Thai, boxing, MMA, and strength and conditioning and Women only specific sessions are all included.

If you have never had the opportunity to try something like this before, now is the moment. No experience is required, only the willingness to show up.

Details are live on the Mountain Club app and in the channel on Slack.

MC x Snow Farm NZ || Thursday 24 September || 0915 - 1500 || Snow Farm, CardronaOur annual cross country ski day is bac...
30/08/2026

MC x Snow Farm NZ || Thursday 24 September || 0915 - 1500 || Snow Farm, Cardrona

Our annual cross country ski day is back, and it's still one of the true highlights of the Member Events calendar. Expect to spend more time laughing than gliding gracefully across the snow, which is really the point. The day includes rental gear, your full-day trail pass and a lesson to get everyone feeling confident and on their feet. Afterwards, enjoy a well-deserved lunch and toast at the historic Meadows Hut to celebrate whatever you'd call your technique by the end of the day.

Meet at Snow Farm at 9:15am for a 9:30am lesson start (self-drive or ride-share). Cardrona Pub afterwards for anyone keen on a proper drink and feed before we head back over the hill.

$165 per person || Members and Guests welcome || Book via our experiences page.

Not a member yet? We'd love to show you around. Reach out to [email protected] to find out more. 300+ events a year. Global network. Brilliant people.

Our first session of How I Built This brought together Mason Kingdom (Mason's Queenstown) and Harriet Watkins (Dr Watkin...
26/08/2026

Our first session of How I Built This brought together Mason Kingdom (Mason's Queenstown) and Harriet Watkins (Dr Watkins' Essentialsls). We asked when they knew they had to build it, when they thought it might not work, and what they'd do differently with everything they know now.

Mason started at 17 with $1,000 and a Facebook post. His takeaway: spot the gap, then back it with focus and modern marketing.
Harriet built her skincare range while managing an autoimmune condition, solving her own problem first. Her takeaway: stay small batch, stay science backed, and listen closely to your customers.

Thank you Mason and Harriet for sitting down with us and being so open about the highs and the hard parts of building something from nothing. Conversations like this are exactly why we started this series, and there are more founders and more stories still to come.

Not a member yet? Reach out to [email protected] to find out more. 300+ events a year. Global network. Brilliant people.

25/08/2026

Web In Travel (WIT) Queenstown brought CEOs, tech founders, and tourism leaders from all around the world to Queenstown to talk about the future of travel tech.

In our latest Mountain Club Podcast episode, Paddy sits down with Roger Sharp, founder and chair of Technology Queenstown and former chair of Webjet.com.au, for a conversation on bringing WIT to Queenstown, building a travel tech ecosystem, and what comes next for the region's economy.

Roger shares what it took to convince global CEOs, from agoda, Air New Zealand, Expedia, and more, to fly to Queenstown for the event, and why not one of them said no. He talks through the 343 million dollar Webjet rescue that first convinced him Queenstown couldn't rely on tourism alone, and what's already moving because of WIT, from a new university tech campus to global investors taking a serious look at the region.

Thank you Roger for sharing how WIT came together and what it means for Queenstown's future. This is a grounded, ambitious listen on tech, tourism, and where the region goes from here.

Listen and watch the full episode on the Mountain Club Podcast.

We're taking Mountain Club over the hill, for two separate days in Lake Hāwea and Cardrona. Both days built around what ...
24/08/2026

We're taking Mountain Club over the hill, for two separate days in Lake Hāwea and Cardrona. Both days built around what our members have been asking for: proper time in the mountains, followed by proper time to recover in them. Book onto either day, or both.

On Wednesday, we're at the original The Secret Sauna, Lake Hāwea, Wānaka, a wood fired sauna where you step straight from the heat into the lake's clear, cold water, mountains and water framing you from every side.

On Thursday, a crew of us will head up for an optional morning ski touring at either Treble Cone or Cardrona, then regroup at 2pm at The Secret Sauna Cardrona. Hidden deep in the Cardrona mountains and reached only by troop carrier truck, three 15 minute guided rounds, cold plunging between each one straight from a mountain creek, the first two rounds for easy conversation and the last held in silence, finished off with a complimentary herbal tea. From there we'll close the day properly, with kai at the Cardrona Pub on the way home.

Limited spaces for both days, don't wait on it.

The Secret Sauna, Lake Hāwea, Wānaka || Wednesday 2 September || 1130 - 1300 || The Secret Sauna Cardrona || Thursday 3 September || 1400 - 1530

Not a member yet? We'd love to show you around. Reach out to [email protected] to find out more. 300+ events a year. Global network. Brilliant people

Two weeks at Mountain Club, in one wrap.The Women in AI Meet-Up brought a room of women together to swap notes on tools,...
20/08/2026

Two weeks at Mountain Club, in one wrap.

The Women in AI Meet-Up brought a room of women together to swap notes on tools, projects and upskilling in the quickly evolving AI space. Impact100 Whakatipu welcomed Olivia Wildey for an honest conversation on building inclusive communities and spending the $100,000 grant. Our first speaker series: How I Built This, sat down with Mason's Queenstown and Dr Watkins' Essentials for real stories on building a business from scratch.

Weekly wellness continued with a second Watershed Saunas and lake plunge, as well as Ski Touring and Reform Pilates moving our members.

We danced our way through After Hours: Salsa & Margs led by Billy and Michala, and rounded the fortnight out with a Bitcoin Journey workshop where Francisco led a Hands-on intro to sending and receiving Bitcoin.

And the big one: our CEO Peter Fullerton-Smith featured in both the Financial Times and the NZ Herald this week, on New Zealand's Active Investor Plus visa and the part Mountain Club plays in it. As Pete puts it, arriving is easy, belonging is everything — and helping this many brilliant people feel like they belong, through our Summit tier, is the best part of what we do

Not a member yet? We'd love to show you around. Reach out to [email protected] to find out more. 300+ events a year. Global network. Brilliant people.

19/08/2026

Esther Cronin, founder of and Brand & Marketing Director at in Queenstown, on the real reason membership matters to her:

"You don't realise how much you miss real connection until you have it again."

As a contractor who spent years working alone, Esther found that a simple conversation with someone from a completely different industry can spark an idea. Your thinking expands. Your circle grows. Suddenly you're capable of things you couldn't have done on your own.

In a world where most of our connection happens through a screen, having people around you, really around you, isn't a luxury. It's what keeps us thinking bigger, growing further, and feeling well.

Curious what membership could do for you? Reach out to [email protected] and we'll show you around. 300+ events a year. Global network. Good people, everywhere.

18/08/2026

Mountain Club is at New Zealand Fashion Week, and ahead of today's Kathryn Wilson Footwear runway show we're revisiting a moment from our live podcast recorded for NZFW: the future of fashion in Aotearoa, and the moment Lou Heller Stylist knew she had to become a stylist.

Watching a woman rebuy a piece she already owned, tags still on at home, Lou saw the real gap. Not more clothes, but knowing how to wear what you have. She built a styling business on buying less and wearing more.

That's the future of fashion in New Zealand. Not just what ends up on the runway, but how we buy, wear, and keep what we already own.

It's New Zealand Fashion Week. The industry is here, the conversations are happening, and this is one you don't want to miss. Hear the full episode with Lou Heller, Hamish Acland, Christina Perriam, and Nat Newlands on the Mountain Club Podcast.

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Tuesday 8:30am - 6pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 6pm
Thursday 8:30am - 6pm
Friday 8:30am - 6pm

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