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Mount Cook

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Blizzard 13 Sep 2014

Have you climbed this mountain?

If so could you kindly email me through the forum, I would like to enter into a private gentlemanly dialogue with you.

Thanks

RudyTwoShoes 14 Sep 2014

In reply to Blizzard:

Did the East Ridge about 14 years ago...........fantastic

Alistair

radson 16 Sep 2014

In reply to Blizzard:

I made a little video on my trip. Look up Aoraki experience on Youtube.

neilwiltshire 16 Sep 2014

In reply to Blizzard:
I intended too last January but we had to change our plans when this happened:

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neilwiltshire 16 Sep 2014

In reply to Blizzard:

Actually I'm curious to hear from anyone who's been there this year, is the rock fall from Jan 2013 still visible or is it covered over by snow?

Removed User 16 Sep 2014

In reply to neilwiltshire:

I was stood on the top of Mt Dixon about a week before that happened! No effect on Mt Cook though.

Swampi 17 Sep 2014

In reply to neilwiltshire:

I was up there in both January 2013 a day or two after the rockfall, then headed up again during the next season in December 2013. All the debris had been completely eaten by the Grand Plateau glacier by the time of my second trip, so it's not an issue accessing the Linda/Zurbriggens/Tasman anymore. Hope that helps.

Morgan P 17 Sep 2014

In reply to Blizzard:

Check with DOC (The New Zealand Department of Conservation) about the situation with the huts. You can contact them over facebook or by their website I guess.

This happened really recently (July 2014) and so I'm not sure that there is an emergency shelter left any more.

http://www.odt.co.nz/news/queenstown-lakes/309901/likely-loss-alpine-hut-la...