At 3,724 metres, Aoraki/Mount Cook is not an especially high mountain by global standards. It is considerably lower than Mont Blanc and more than 2,000 metres lower than Kilimanjaro. Set beside the giants of the Himalaya, Karakoram or Andes, its altitude appears almost modest. Yet altitude alone is a poor measure of the seriousness or … Continue reading Aoraki/Mount Cook: Why New Zealand’s Highest Mountain Remains a Mountaineer’s Summit