[2] In 1976 it became The Mount Cook Group Ltd.[2][3] The company was split in 1989 with various operations progressively sold off, with Air New Zealand retaining the airline businesses.
In 1921 Rodolph Wigley leased The Hermitage hotel from the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts and began expanding it, installing electricity and telegraph, catering for skaters and skiers and employing mountain guides.
[2] The first skifield in New Zealand was developed on Ball Glacier in Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park; the company opened another at Ōhau.
[7] Mount Cook Line Skifields developed and operated the Queenstown ski areas of Coronet Peak and The Remarkables, now owned by NZSki Ltd.
[7] Now independently owned, Mount Cook Ski Planes operates Cessna 185s and Pilatus Porters, and is the only company to land scenic flights on the Tasman Glacier to this day.