The Maori name for Mount Cook is Aoraki – Cloud Piercer and is very apt; at 3,753m it’s New Zealand’s highest mountain.
Mount Cook towers above the other snow clad peaks that make up the Mount Cook National Park. This region, sometimes called Mackenzie Country after the renown Scottish sheep rustler, Jock MacKenzie, is in fact an inland basin beneath the Southern Alps and Mount Cook. The area has vast open spaces and numerous glacial lakes including the turquoise coloured Lake Tekapo, famed for the view of the Southern Alps through the alter window of The Church of the Good Shepherd. The Tasman Glacier, one of the longest outside the Himalayas, can also be found here.
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