One Step Up

And two steps back as they say. Slippery Scree. Halfway up.

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January 3rd 2011
The world doesn't want you to climb Mount Ngarahoe and I'm not really sure why. If you have a look around on the net you'll hear how energy consuming and perilous it is. How the clouds can come out of nowhere and swallow you up like a wayward hobbit. Some pages go on about the dangers of the slippery 'scree' - loose, pebbly, frozen lava from the 1977 explosion (oh, it's an active volcano by the wa ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » National Parks » Tongariro National Park

The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more

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