Our Fabulous children organised this for us for Christmas, thanks again kids it was awesome.
The Drive from Cromwell to the Glacier was just beautiful
Climbing our way along highway 8 through rolling hills that look like they have velour blankets draped over them
close up its hundreds of clumps of button grass swaying in the breeze
It could be the rolling Scottish hills that we’re passing through, as we approach Lindis Pass summit
960 mtrs – 3300 ft !!!!
Almost immediately descending to half that height we’re in a wide open bowl of hills everywhere we look, Hill Soup, you might say
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We even got a tiny glimpse of snow!!!!
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which bodes well for our upcoming adventure.
Passing by High Country salmon Farm
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we see the beautiful lake Pukaki and the majestic Mount Cook range in the distance
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rriving at Mount Cook airport we checked in and eagerly awaited our adventure.
3 of us boarded the tiny Pilatus Porter plane.
Sue was really quite nervous but didn’t allow it to spoil what lay ahead. Quite a rattly noisy journey meant there was next to no commentary just scenery with the odd thing pointed out, so we’ll do the same here
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lacial melt below
bout 7000 ft high now
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our highest now, c12000'
About halfway through the video below you can see 2 helicopters below us, they look like dragonflies, amazing
turned the corner at the top W O W
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elow Is the TOP of Mount Cook amidst swirling clouds at a height 12,218′
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w we head back down to earth !!!
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at a day!!!!!
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