The Remarkables. : January brings the snow

Coronet Peak. : January brings the snow

The Remarkables. : January brings the snow

Rachel Shirley (left) and her son Ethan Shirley (3) of Lake Hawea and Justine Weatherall of Dunedin with her son Thomas Weatherall (3) on the Crown Range. : January brings the snow

Lachlan (9), Katelyn (11) and Courtney (13) Preston from Perth - the children have never seen or touched snow before. : January brings the snow

Rachel Shirley (left) and her son Ethan Shirley (3) of Lake Hawea and Justine Weatherall of Dunedin with her son Thomas Weatherall. : January brings the snow

Snow on the mountains as downtown Wanaka is blazing in midsummer sun. : January brings the snow

Tourists stop at the top of the Crown Range to play. : January brings the snow

Tourists stop at the top of the Crown Range to play. : January brings the snow

Tourists stop at the top of the Crown Range to play. : January brings the snow

Johan Lie and his wife Fafa, of Jakarta, Indonesia, show off their souvenir. : January brings the snow

Nigel Crisp, of Perth, fits daughter Hayley with a snowman hat. : January brings the snow

Katrin Einax, of Leipzig, Germany, dodges snowballs in the carpark at the top of the Crown Range, between Wanaka and Queenstown. : January brings the snow

Wanaka i-Site team leader Michelle Smith answers one of thousands of questions brought about by disrupted tourist travel plans. : January brings the snow

Newmans driver John Hamilton unloads bags at Wanaka after driving a full coach load of passengers from Franz Josef. : January brings the snow

Atomic shuttle driver Stu Evans loads up Alabama bound tourists Caleb Waddle, Darren Abbott [obscured] and Alisa Waddle. : January brings the snow