A private helicopter flight to the real, exclusively-accessible Earnslaw Burn glacier.
A private helicopter charter for your group, to the real Earnslaw Burn — accessible only through this operator's exclusive landing rights.
This is confirmed: "as the only company permitted to land at this hidden gem, Heliworks provides exclusive access." Real, genuine Earnslaw Burn glacier scenery is the destination.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Helipad meeting point in Queenstown.
Genuinely the only operator permitted to land here.
Genuine Earnslaw Burn scenery.
Genuine aerial access.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private helicopter charter for your group, to the real Earnslaw Burn — accessible only through this operator's exclusive landing rights. This is confirmed: "as the only company permitted to land at this hidden gem, Heliworks provides exclusive access." Real, genuine Earnslaw Burn glacier scenery is the destination.
Mount Earnslaw (Pikirakatahi in Maori) is the dominant peak at the head of Lake Wakatipu, about 25 kilometres north of Glenorchy, and is actually a twin-summited massif rather than a single peak — its East Peak reaches roughly 2,819 metres (9,249 feet) and its West Peak a near-identical 2,822 metres (9,261 feet), with the Rees Valley on one side and the Dart Valley on the other.
Earnslaw Burn is the real, documented glacial valley carved into the massif's southern face, where a substantial hanging ice field feeds meltwater waterfalls down into the valley below; a smaller, separate glacier (the Birley Glacier) sits on the mountain's eastern flank. It's genuinely remote terrain, well off any road, which is exactly why access here is realistically limited to helicopter.
The operator's own marketing describes itself as the only company permitted to land in Earnslaw Burn — a claim repeated consistently across its own booking pages and several independent travel-booking platforms, though it's the operator's own description of its access arrangement rather than something independently verifiable from outside sources. What is independently confirmable is the terrain itself: a genuinely secluded alpine valley, reachable only by air, with the kind of close-up glacier and waterfall scenery that most Queenstown-area scenic flights, which tend to stay at a distance from peaks like this, don't get near.
The route in also tracks over historic Skippers Canyon's rugged schist gorge country before crossing into the Earnslaw Range — scenery with its own 19th-century gold-mining history, and, more broadly, a recognisable Southern Alps backdrop that has featured across both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies.
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