Mt Cook is the highest peak in New Zealand, at a height of 3754 m. Sir Edmund Hillary climbed it in , and used the area as a training ground for his Mt Everest expeditions. We were staying at Lake Tekapo, about an hour and a half from Mt Cook, so we took a day trip to do some hiking around the mountain.
It was pretty cloudy for most of the day so we didn’t get many great views, although the peak did make a brief appearance before we left for the day. We did a 4hr hike to the Hooker Valley, and at the end we were rewarded with some icebergs floating in the water. I’m not actually sure if they count as icebergs, but chunks of glacier that had broken off and was floating in the glacier lake. It was so totally random and unexpected. We just turned a corner and suddenly there they were. A great surprise at the end of the trail.
Mt Cook peeking through the clouds.
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