A science team climbs New Zealand's highest peak to get an accurate measure of its height. The summit fell off in 1991 and has subsequently been eroded down further since then.
Thank you for making this video. It gives a real insight into the climbing involved in getting to the summit to make the measurement - as well as showing the beauty and grandeur of Aoraki.
I've been using your updated measurement of the summit for a few years now when I'm guiding and talking to clients. This was an interesting look at how you did it and a really good overview of what climbing Aoraki Mt Cook is like. Thanks.
Our tibuna aoraki was the grandchild of kilikilikatata and aloalokaehe, when they arrived to tava'ipoenemu or south island a great calamity befelled the crew of the araitauru canoe as it hit a storm kilikilikatata swam and saved his grandson aoraki placing him on his back and swam to safety, this was at matakaea shag point otago, the survivors of this tradgedy went to waikowaiiti where they married into the local people , because our ancestors at this time were hunter gatherers and still are the time came to move inland. Kilikilikatata allways carried his grandson on his shoulders and his wife close to his chest, these are the three peaks of aoraki. Aoraki been the top, aloalokaehe the second biggest and kilikilikatata the final smallest peak. this story tells us that we stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. So my message to you is climb climb climb all the way to the top so as to replicate the deeds of our ancestors. The great ragatira allways comes last, KILIKILIKATATA
My cousins body is somewhere on Mt Cook, him and his friends got trapped in a snowstorm and buried under 2x avalanches. Our family were never able to recover his body, as the glaciers melt we hope he one we might have his body returned 💔
7:04 I watched this whole thing to find out how much the height had changed by. I couldn't understand the accent. is it 14m less than the 1991 measurement?
thanks. wow, that's significant. driving through Arthurs Pass every week, erosion is very obvious. I think the mountains must have formed fairly quickly to rise faster than they fall ?? ie. quicker than our current estimates.
Believe that would now make it 39th highest mountain on the planet, Seems it would have been far cheaper for you guys to have got a helicopter to the summit. ( Na good on yah lol ).
u fly a helicopter up there and your going to create another huge avalanche, we went to the fox glacier earlier this year and ever time a helicopter flew over ice crashed from the face
correct, it is 39th if measuring by prominence. If however looking at altitude above sea level then Mt. Trivor is the 39th highest mountain at at altitude of 7,577m.
