Avalanche
Mueller Hut walk
Hooker lake Iceland ?
bivouac Hooker glacier. Dodgy rock everywhere...
We seemed to breathe a
heavenly atmosphere,
To live a new life in
another and a better world
Where is the man who
can come into contact with these surroundings and
Not be better in body
and soul ?
G.E Mannering 1891
Mt Cook is a place of power – like Chamonix (France ), The Matterhorn (Switzerland ) . It both humbles and
uplifts and connects one to the transcendent.
The mountain dominates at 3724m, framed by the Hooker valley
and a glacial lake with icebergs which looks like Greenland …
Sacred to the Maoris as Aoraki (son of the Sky Father) ,
similarly to Mt Everest/ Chomolunga (Goddess mother of the world).
So the connection of big mountains to the sacred goes across
time and culture.
I certainly was affected by it. One night when I was bivying
in an old hut, the bright moon lit up
the snows and the beauty brought tears to my eyes.
Walks I did:
Mueller hut - 3 hours up to 1800m no
probs excellent views;
Copland ridge part way. The latter involved walking across a
steep moraine left of Hooker lake for hours with my 25kg plus pack . Exhausting
and dangerous. Lots of route finding and decisions. Bivied under the ridge ,
under a huge rock . Next day up at 5am. At 7am went up the dodgy narrow ridge
barely marked with cairns to 1500m before turning back, wisely. A
dangerous ridge to come down in foggy weather. Made it back to the tourist
track south of Hooker
Lake
NZ is not as plain sailing as the French alps with its clear
tracks and solid rock.
The training ground
for Hillary who conquered Everest in 1953, as a humble bee-keeper.
There is an excellent alpine museum with 3D cinema which I
visited. I venture to say that people were more happy-go-lucky in the 50s and
60s than they are now. We are living in tense, confused and slightly insane
times. To much love of comfort and materialism and utopian ideology and not
enough tolerance, friendship, smiles, carefree adventurers and spirituality.
Freda du Faur went up
tough mountains in 1910 and had a peak named after her, another woman became
the first female mountain guide in 1929. The more I learn, the more I see that the Feminista
theory of (European) male “oppression” is a load of crock. Set women against men, children against their
parents, blacks against whites. Divide and conquer – such is the strategy of
the power hungry elitists who want to allocate Victim status to some and rule your ass. Wake up and don’t be a puppet
for these power-mad destructive freaks. Students revolt against the zombies who shut
down debate and brainwash you at Uni… “Take the red pill” (the Matrix) and see through the web of lies and
manipulation the chattering classes have weaved to enslave you.
The world we’ve been
born into is a cleverly designed story-factory to keep us from the truth so
that we stay in neat little boxes, all lined up in a row. We do what we’re told
like little soldiers afraid to test what happens when we claim our own power.
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