Certificate in Outdoor Adventure Skills and Leadership

Graduates will be able to undertake outdoor activities safely with their peers and will gain a wide range of outdoor experiences and will have learnt some technical outdoor skills. They will have team work skills and be effective communicators. They will also have met the requirements for unit standards to qualify for award of the national Certificate in Outdoor Recreation (Level 4).

Education at Hillary Outdoors goes beyond the boundaries of classrooms and subject areas and takes learning into an environment rich in opportunity.

Hillary Outdoors provides the ultimate New Zealand experience. In putting his name to the organisation (formerly The Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre, or OPC), Sir Edmund Hillary, the great explorer and first man to conquer Mt Everest, quipped that OPC (now Hillary Outdoors) provided the best outdoor learning environment available - a truly unique combination of environment and education.