Chopper Challenge

Mount Cook National Park is to host the 2008 World Heli Challenge over two weeks in August. After a six-year hiatus the competition, deemed the most legendary freeriding and freeskiing event on the planet, has returned to the South Island. The World Heli Challenge includes three days of helicopter-accessed competition during which the Big Mountain, Backcountry Freestyle and Downhill heats will take place. Thousands of people will gather in Wanaka to celebrate the two-week competition finale at the ‘Afterburner Party’. “Quite simply the world’s most unique and captivatingly exclusive snow event around, the World Heli Challenge is not to be missed!” The Challenge runs from August 9 through 24.