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Route Guide: Otira to Mt Cook Village (pt 1)
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12 – 21 days. Hard. One way.
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Distance: 258m away
One possible route down the main divide from Otira on the Arthur's Pass road to Mt Cook Village.
Otira Hotel to ...
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Route Guide: Otira to Mt Cook Village (pt 2)
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12 – 21 days. Hard. One way.
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Distance: 258m away
One possible route down the main divide from Otira on the Arthur's Pass road to Mt Cook Village.
Otira Hotel ...
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Ball Shelter Hut
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Distance: 258m away
Tasman Valley, Mount Cook National Park. View to range on other side of the Tasman Glacier.
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A fine day to view Mt Cook
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Distance: 258m away
Anyone who has driven between Christchurch and Wanaka / Queenstown area on a fine day would surely have this photo.
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Munted Feet
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Distance: 1.9km away
May my thoughts be like at evening an Otago sky where detonated clouds in calm confusion lie - Glover
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view from mueller hut route
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Distance: 1.9km away
In winter there is usually little sign of a track after passing Sealy Tarns, the hill is covered in snow, ...
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Hooker Valley Track
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Easy. Return by the same track.
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Distance: 2.0km away
Mostly flat, easy and touristy track along the Hooker River from White Horse campground to the Hooker Glacier. Great views.
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Sealy Tarns
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Easy/medium. Return by the same track.
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Distance: 2.0km away
Steep track with lots of steps, but easy and well-maintained. The tarns are roughly half-way to Mueller Hut. From the ...
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Fiordland National Park
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National Park. 12570.00km2.
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Distance: 2.8km away
New Zealand's largest park, with large areas of impenetrable wilderness. Includes the Glaisnock and Pembroke Wilderness Areas. Fiordland National Park ...
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Above Mueller Hut
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Distance: 3.2km away
Looking Down on Mueller hut and across to Mt. Cook from Mt. Olivier.
Photo taken in January 2008.
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Mueller Hut and Aoraki/Mt Cook
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Distance: 3.4km away
Mueller Hut and Aoraki/Mt Cook
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Mueller Hut
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Serviced Alpine Hut (DOC). Capacity: 28.
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Distance: 3.4km away
Mueller hut is surrounded by Mt. Cook and other 3000m peaks, making it a scenic place to stay. In summer ...
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Mueller Hut
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1 – 2 days. Medium. Return by the same track.
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Distance: 3.5km away
Day or overnight trip to an alpine hut with views of Aoraki / Mount Cook. Best walked mid-November to March ...
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Haast to The Divide
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Distance: 3.5km away
Andrew Barker's traverse 2009. From Pleasant Flat in the Haast to The Divide via Mt Aspiring National Park.
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Maori Saddle
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Distance: 3.7km away
Crossing of the Main Divide from the Okuru River to the Blue River. 1245m. This photo taken from Douglas Saddle. ...
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Tramp from the Haast to the Blue
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Distance: 3.7km away
Tramping the Burke, Howe, Okuru and the Blue rivers via the Douglas and Maori saddles.
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Hooker Valley Track
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Distance: 3.7km away
Hooker Valley Track walkboard, looking towards the valley
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Chancellor Hut
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Serviced Alpine Hut (DOC). Capacity: 12.
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Distance: 4.4km away
This historic hut is located 200m above Fox Glacier on Chancellor Ridge. The bunk room was formally the women's room. ...
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New Years on the glaciers -2003
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Distance: 4.4km away
Part of a four day traverse of Fox and Franz Josef glaciers starting at Pioneer hut on Fox and making ...
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View from Drummond Peak - Franz Josef Glacier
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Distance: 4.7km away
Looking North from around 2600m. Westland is to the left.
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Alma Hut - Franz Josef Glacier
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Distance: 4.7km away
Perched to the side of the glacier. This shot was taken in 2003. I believe it has been refurbished by ...
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A day on Franz Josef
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Distance: 4.7km away
A photo opportunity to impress his son. It's Jeremys first time on the ice
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Overnight Icefall from Franz Josef Glacier
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Distance: 4.7km away
Jeremy is dwarfed by some of the ice that has fallen at the terminal end of the glacier.
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Roberts Point Track
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1 day. Medium. Return by the same track.
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Distance: 4.9km away
Crossing the Waiho River at Douglas Bridge, this tracks leads up the valley true right to a viewpoint overlooking the ...
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Franz Josef Glacier / Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere Walk
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Easy. Return by the same track.
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Distance: 4.9km away
Follow the Waiho River to a viewpoint looking up to the Franz Josef Glacier.
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Descent of Fox Glacier
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Distance: 5.3km away
The icescapes of a glacier are everchanging, transformed by the the eternal battle between gravity and friction. They can only ...
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Almer Hut
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Serviced Alpine Hut (DOC). Capacity: 12.
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Distance: 5.3km away
Located on the top of Franz Josef Glacier, this was the first prefabricated and air-lifted hut in Westland National Park, ...
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Almer Hut
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Distance: 5.5km away
Almer hut is an old DoC hut, recently restored. Has 10 bunks, including 6 bunks in the "ladies room". Can ...
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Sitting above the Hooker Glacier enroute from Ball Pass
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Distance: 5.8km away
Looking southward toward MtCook Village you've got a clear view of the route leading up to Mueller Hut
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Cloudmaker
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Distance: 5.8km away
Mount Cook (Aoraki) forms a large cloud, seen from the Hooker Lake.
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Hendes Shelter (Historic) Oct 2011
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Distance: 5.9km away
This shelter is on the Roberts Point track above the Waiho River on the way to a viewing platform above ...
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The Head of the Young Valley
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Distance: 6.2km away
The Head of the valley shortly before leaving the valley floor to begin the climb to Gillespie Pass up the ...
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Picton to Aspiring
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Distance: 6.4km away
An aborted alpine traverse. Picton to West Cape, but aborted at Aspiring due to real world emergencies back home. Posted ...
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Pioneer Hut
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Serviced Alpine Hut (NZAC). Capacity: 16.
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Distance: 6.5km away
New Zealand Alpine Club hut perched on the rocky Pioneer Ridge over the Fox Glacier névé. The Pioneer Hut looks ...
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The boys, Gillespie Pass, Jan 2001
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Distance: 6.5km away
Aged 11 and 14, the lads proved remarkably resilient on the Wilkin/Young tramp, braving sandflies a the "Young Forks lunch ...
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Along way up
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Distance: 6.6km away
The track to Gillespie Pass climbs nearly verically towards the pass. This is looking back down into the Young Valley ...
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Gillespie Pass
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Distance: 6.7km away
Looking down at the Young side of the Pass.
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Gillespie Pass Circuit
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3 – 4 days. Medium. Loop track.
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Distance: 6.7km away
This is a 3-4 day track that is located near Makarora at the head of Lake Wanaka. Being a loop ...
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Wilkins - Young (Gillespie Pass) Circuit
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3 – 4 days. Medium. One way.
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Distance: 6.8km away
Crossing the Makarora river on foot to the Young valley. Ascending to Young Hut in the first day. 2nd Day ...
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Jamieson Saddle
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Distance: 6.9km away
Jamieson Saddle summit, 2187m - looking west across the upper Dobson towards the Sealy Range. Jamieson saddle is an unmarked ...
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Tasman valley from Jamieson Saddle
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Distance: 6.9km away
A look back towards the coast from Jamieson Saddle: views over the Tasman Valley, Lake Pukaki, Burkes Pass and the ...
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Ball Shelter
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1 – 2 days. Easy/medium. Return via same track.
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Distance: 7.0km away
Follow the old Ball Hut Road from the Blue Lakes car park along the moraine wall of the Tasman Glacier ...
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The Gillespie Saddle
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Distance: 7.0km away
Taken from the hightest point of the Gillespie Pass track on point 1629 looking over the saddle towards point 1726. ...
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Gillespie Stream and the Siberia from Gillespie Pass
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Distance: 7.0km away
Looking South West from the pass, the Gillespie Stream snakes its way down towards the Siberia Valley. The valley across ...
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Hooker Landsborough Wilderness Area
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Wilderness Area. 410.00km2.
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Distance: 7.0km away
Remote peaks and valleys around Mount Hooker (2652m) and the head of the Landsborough River. The area borders Westland National ...
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Main Divide south of Copland headwaters Oct 2010
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Distance: 7.3km away
This pic was taken about 15 mins above Douglas Rock hut. I think the prominent peak is The Footstool? Mt ...
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Jamieson Saddle
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Distance: 7.4km away
Jamieson Saddle, from the Birch Hill / Mt Cook Village side. This is an alpine route from Mt Cook Village ...
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DOC campsite at Young Forks
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Distance: 7.6km away
Located 2 minutes from the swingbridge up the Young North branch and about 2 hours from Young hut, this is ...
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Young Hut
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Serviced Hut (DOC). Capacity: 20.
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Distance: 8.0km away
A newly built hut (2006) with stainless steel benches. A inside sink with tap from rain tank. 2 rooms, one ...
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Centennial Hut
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Serviced Alpine Hut (DOC). Capacity: 20.
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Distance: 8.1km away
Located on Tusk Rock, Franz Josef névé, and named for the centennial of the New Zealand Alpine Club (established 1891).
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Lake Tasman and Murchison river
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Distance: 8.1km away
A very interesting situation here: The eastern lateral moraine of the Tasman glacier forces the Murchison river into a narrow ...
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Hooker glacier and Hooker Hut
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Distance: 8.2km away
On the west side of Ball Pass it is easy to view the Hooker hut and the beginning of the ...
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Hooker Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 12.
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Distance: 8.3km away
Historic hut built in 1909/10 and situated near the moraine wall of the Hooker Glacier. It has been shifted twice ...
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Barron Saddle Hut
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Serviced Alpine Hut (DOC). Capacity: 8.
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Distance: 8.5km away
An iron cylinder near Barron Saddle.
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Lake Wombat
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Easy. Return by the same track.
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Distance: 8.7km away
Short walk to a kettle lake near Franz Josef Glacier.
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Copland Shelter
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Shelter (DOC). Capacity: 4.
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Distance: 8.8km away
Copland Emergency Shelter on the east side of the Copeland Pass. This is serious country and should only be undertaken ...
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Copland Track
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3 days. Hard. One way.
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Distance: 8.8km away
Classic mountaineering route between Mount Cook and the West Coast. See Welcome Flat.
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Standing out on a pinnacle of rock near to the summit of Drummond Pk.
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Distance: 9.0km away
Above and on the north side of Franz Josef glacier. 2003
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Copland valley, Mt Sefton
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Distance: 9.2km away
mt sefton summit from the valley floor
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Mount Hopkins
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Distance: 9.3km away
Mount Hopkins, in the upper Dobson. Readon hut lies on the valley floor, to the left of the peak.
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Graham Saddle from the Franz Josef side.
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Distance: 9.8km away
Our other rope team begins the descent from Graham Saddle back down to our packs on Franz Josef glacier.
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View of the Tasman Glacier from Graham Saddle
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Distance: 9.8km away
Whilst returning to Centennial Hut from Alma Hut on Franz Josef Glacier we made a worthwhile side trip to Graham ...
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Tasman Glacier lake
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Distance: 9.9km away
The terminal lake of the Tasman Glacier from the eastern slopes of the Murchinson. I was picked up by the ...
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