Wednesday, 22 February 2017

Mount Taranaki is the New Zealand's greatest gifts

Mt Taranaki often draws comparisons to Japan's Mt Fuji.

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New Zealand's most distinctive mountain is also one of the most deadly.

More than 80 climbers have lost their lives on the slopes of Mount Taranaki since records began in 1891. The picture-perfect peak is a natural born killer for the inexperienced, and the ill-prepared.

Some end up falling to their doom. Others are hoodwinked by the mountain's rapidly changing weather conditions, and freeze to death.

But just like a cold-blooded homme fatale, Taranaki is as handsome as he is dangerous. The 2518-metre-high mountain is considered one of the most symmetrical volcano cones in the world.

It often draws comparisons with Japan's national treasure, the venerated Mount Fuji - and even stood in for its Japanese counterpart in the 2003 Tom Cruise blockbuster, The Last Samurai..... keep reading ....  http://bit.ly/2m78SHR

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