Aoraki Mount Cook
For a true alpine experience, discover New Zealand’s highest mountains and largest glaciers in Aoraki Mount Cook National Park.
For a true alpine experience, discover New Zealand’s highest mountains and largest glaciers in Aoraki Mount Cook National Park.
Mount Cook is known equally throughout the world for its alpine beauty and harsh remoteness. At the foot of the mountain sits the village of Mount Cook National Park – an unforgettable haven in one of the most unforgiving parts of New Zealand. On every side, the Southern Alps scrape the sky. And even in summer, weather can change in the blink of an eye.
The Mountain is full of adventure, nature and mind-blowing beauty. Even if you visit this place once, the beauty of this place remain with you; calling you back again and again.
In 1949 New Zealand’s most famous mountaineer, Sir Edmund Hillary, along with Harry Ayres, made the first ascent up the challenging south ridge on the south peak. They also completed the grand traverse. On May 29, 2003, a bronze statue of Sir Edmund Hillary was unveiled outside The Hermitage, Mt Cook, looking out to the mountains he used to climb.
