More Mt Cook

This is Jos looking out to Mt Cook, part of the way up Mt Ollivier at a point called Sealy Tarns. We camped at the DOC campsite the night after skydiving and set out early the next day on this 7 hour return walk in absoloutly perfect weather. The route was pretty busy with it being Good Friday bank holiday, but well worth it never the less. Apparently this was the first hill Edmund Hillary climbed before going on to scale Everest years later. What a place to start mountaineering!

We reached the Mueller hut after about 4 hours and stopped for lunch and then I headed on to the summit whilst Jos watched huge avalanches falling off Mt Sefton accross the opposite side of the Mueller Glacier. I could think of far worse places to eat sandwiches and hard boiled eggs! We then headed back down the hill, knees tiring, to the campsite. The evening was spent in the dead nice "Old Mountaineers Cafe Bar and Restaurant" in Mount Cook village, eating pizzas and drinking fine wines. How civilised!