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Mount Cook has been the crown jewel in the New Zealand mountain chest since people first realised it was the biggest mountain in the country. It is where Sir Edmund Hillary learnt to climb before...
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The buildings of Mount Cook Village blend into the landscape, their green and brown roofs designed not to distract people's eyes from the mountains that tower around it. The only thing that...
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Day three was easy compared to day two. But the best thing was that we didn't have to get up until 7am... pure bliss.
It was a leisurely stroll down the Cinerama Col. The mountains we had...
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There have been 70 people killed while climbing Mount Cook, and the fact that I am here writing this proves that I was not one of them. There is a memorial near Mount Cook Village that remembers...
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The descent was relatively straightforwards. We just followed the same line we had used to come up. Our crampon marks lay like a traintrack under the sun, and our steps were still well formed in...
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After lunch the climbing got a bit tougher. We had to ascend a vertical ridge, pulling ourselves ever higher with our ice axes.
We climbed unroped, each aware that the other could plummet at...
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The warm sun touched our necks as we pulled ourselves onto the West Ridge. Mt Tasman rose seemingly from just across the valley, its massive flanks fat and inviting. During a break I traced my...
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I awoke just before midnight to an unusual sound. I lay in the darkness, my eyes closed, trying to place it. It wasn't rain or snow. It wasn't an avalanch. It wasn't the sound of breakfast.
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I was up at 5am, as the morning chorus of creaks, groans, and farts echoed from the slumbering hostel. I brewed up and munched on muslie and condensed milk. Pubdy joined me a few minutes later,...
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I almost forgot to take gas cylinders. How was I going to get a brew going up on the mountain without gas? Luckily, I met an American guy in the hostel the night before my climb who had a couple of...
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The mountains were still there when the sun came up, so I decided to go for a walk.
The Hooker Valley walk is mostly flat - well, more kind of flatish - and took about 4 hours return....
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It was another early morning, and steam rose from the cows in the field as I thumped warmth into my body. And I was wearing another wetsuit.
This time I was white water rafting, and my hosts...
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