It’s the hardest climb _I’ve_ ever experienced. And that was sitting on my couch watching _other_ people do it! 😶

@writerconsidered

27 күн бұрын

Gold star comment.

@trevorhoward7682

26 күн бұрын

I had my eyes closed when I did it.

@Whoooora2024

23 күн бұрын

Ha, ha, ha, ha, brilliant ! 🤣

@Axgoodofdunemaul

22 күн бұрын

Me too. It was hell, I tell you, hell!

@johnlmcgary

22 күн бұрын

Tell me about it, I almost dropped my sandwich.

The Aoraki Ridge ascent is the hardest, toughest, steepest, most challenging climb that I've ever refused to attempt.

Lived there at the time, flew over and around the debris the next day, very impressive, debris went all the way across Tasman Glacier and up the other side

@OutThereLearning

Ай бұрын

That would have been a memorable flight!

This obsession with biggest and highest. Once it was on the sea floor, and maybe one day it could return there. Just enjoy the moment and the craggy beauty.

@OutThereLearning

16 күн бұрын

@@nicholasturner5146 thanks for your comment

I remember in 79 Cook lost a similar amount off its peak possibly a bit more well reported by the Star and NZ Herald.

The ridge is one of the hardest climbs I’ve done. Bloody scary.

@gaius_enceladus

Ай бұрын

@morganspencer-churchill2136 - I'll bet it is! You wouldn't get me up there!

@uncletiggermclaren7592

Ай бұрын

What part of 'This shape is the result of eons of mountain-slides' escaped your notice ?. :P

@MeppyMan

Ай бұрын

Many Aussies have died trying.

@robertgreen5217

Ай бұрын

I done it in my trainers and swimming shorts not even a rope did I have , I had a litre of eldorado and six supers I drunk the cargo on the summit that’s when it collapsed 👍

@davidyardley512

Ай бұрын

Respect to anyone who can climb up there.

Hiking mountain trails is a challenge that tests your endurance. However, the reward for overcoming these difficulties is unmatched :)

@norbertschmitz3358

26 күн бұрын

Did the NZ Copeland trail in the 80is....one of the very best!

I love the word greywacke. Cool word.

@morganspencer-churchill2136

Ай бұрын

A lot of Hawke’s Bay is greywacke too, eg the stone beaches in Napier/Hastings.

@luciddaze248

Ай бұрын

Cool word but dull rock. And it's everywhere! Makes finding interesting rocks a true hunt.

@Shaun.Stephens

Ай бұрын

@@luciddaze248 Dull rock? I reckon it would make a great name for a rock band. :)

@patroberts5449

Ай бұрын

@@Shaun.StephensYes!! When do they tour the US?? 😅😅😂

@Geomanps

28 күн бұрын

When you hear greywacke think dirty sandstone.

What goes up must come down over millions of years. 😊

@BillMurrey

24 күн бұрын

Not over millions of years. They kept repeating that the mountain is eroding, and all mountains do, so it must have been eroding all those 'millions of years'? How much mountain you think would remain after millions of years of erosion?

My wife and I visited the New Zealand South Island in the early 90's. When we were in the area of Mt Cook it was cloudy so we weren't able to see it. I ended up buying a picture of Mt Cook while we were there.

Gravity: That’s why the young mountains are tall and the older mountains are much smaller.

@CountCraigula

24 күн бұрын

Or erosion, either one.

@spikespa5208

22 күн бұрын

For a "collapsed" mountain, it still looks pretty tall. Hyperbole abounds.

Planet doing what planets do. No crisis.

The wind and water wins every time. Prove me wrong.

This is what comes from making your mountains out of sandstone. 😁

@OutThereLearning

26 күн бұрын

🙂

@k.chriscaldwell4141

23 күн бұрын

Should have gone with Roman cement?! Next time?!

@reuireuiop0

8 күн бұрын

​@@k.chriscaldwell4141 Could've sent some Pacific outrigger seamen to go get it

lesson: don't buy cheap summits - go ahead and spend the money on a quality summit

I'm so glad I did not hear how millions of years ago this Mt. was formed, just simple science. Thanks

What a great bedtime story thank you

Another great upload, thanks OTL

@OutThereLearning

Ай бұрын

Cheers!

New Zealand is the world's greatest open air museum for geologists

@OutThereLearning

Ай бұрын

Aye!

@adambane1719

Ай бұрын

Its not the first, but definitely the turd

Ah, New Zealand, travelled there first of June and already fall in love at first sights. Although i experienced real life "frost stun" like the Lich King in Dota for 2 minutes due to lowest temperature i ever experienced in my life, 9 degree Celsius

This is so good. 👏👏

I'm so old I was educated pre-metric. 12,349 is burnt in my brain, though I know it is not that now.

@hadz8671

Ай бұрын

Now you will have to remember 12,218.

@flamencoprof

Ай бұрын

@@hadz8671 I may be old, but i can and did save that to my phone. 🙂 So the plains are made.

Very educational. Thanks.

@OutThereLearning

24 күн бұрын

Cheers!

Our country is so intresting love learning about home

1:02 Looks like a glider soaring there.

Bob Harvey disappeared climbing the Zubriggen in 1988. I still miss you Bob.

Very interesting, thanks

@OutThereLearning

26 күн бұрын

Cheers!

40 meters is like 2 inches isn't it.

Thanks. 👊🏼✌🏻

Very beautiful.

I remember when that happened in 1991....

Great video

@OutThereLearning

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

Beautiful places = Dynamic

Geology in action

Need to do one about Mt Ruapehu

A soothing voice

@annegiorgio5602

24 күн бұрын

With,a slight lisp

I remember when it happen,😢

Mountains, Gandalf!

climb a dangerously crumbling peak with 1000s of feet sheer drop? the mind boggles.

You can see how Hilary cut his teeth before venturing over to Everest..In fact, Mt Cook's summit looks far less forgiving than that of Everest..

@captainspock6221

Ай бұрын

the death rate on everest shows that everest is far less forgiving. comparing 12,000 feet to 29,000 feet is ludicrous.

@fraserthomson5766

Ай бұрын

@@captainspock6221 Very true, but I was alluding to the sheer 'jaggedness' of Mt Cook's vs Everest's peak.

This just collapsed. Let's go climb it.

There are many obscure peaks throughout the High Sierra that are extremely scary to ascend.

I’m just convincing myself if a handful of Hobbits can climb it, I can climb it.

@OutThereLearning

23 күн бұрын

@@MrKent84 for sure!

The Top of the Mountain just fell off . . . . . . . . . . . . Lets Climb it !

@justdoi8909

22 күн бұрын

at least the front didn't fall off, Justsaying

@OutThereLearning

21 күн бұрын

😏

Staying for Kmart version of Sir David Attenborough

It’s eroding and collapsing, cool let’s go stand on it!

@OutThereLearning

24 күн бұрын

@@GNeyland 🙂

Pretty ballsy, it could have collapsed again while you were there.

@trainman1209

24 күн бұрын

Yeah!

I dont like your face! Cook- "ok, I'll change"

Ein sehr guter Beitrag. Germany

@OutThereLearning

24 күн бұрын

Danke!

Known as "Cookie Mountain" to those in the know.

Only shilly shausagers would climb thish !

@tomwilkinson392

25 күн бұрын

Shoundsh like he needsh new denturesh!

@justdoi8909

22 күн бұрын

@@tomwilkinson392 dine chewers?

What do you expect from an uplift that occurred in the middle bronze?

So did the mountain shrink 40 meters because of the rock fall, or because it was mapped more accurately? Also, heard theres a cave near the top called the hotel, is that true?

@OutThereLearning

22 күн бұрын

Because of the rock fall and following erosion of the unstable lowered summit. Yes there is a crevasse called the middle peak hotel, where climbers have camped in emergencies!

@reuireuiop0

7 күн бұрын

Going out camping in an emergency, that's one thing, doing that inside a crevasse _is_ another bit, slightly suicidal sounding enterprise. Calling that emergency overnight crevasse a _Hotel_ , must rank as one supreme Kiwi exploit!

Interesting video. Why did they need to climb to measure the height? Helicopter could have done it without the risk.

@OutThereLearning

Ай бұрын

For millimetre precision the GPS units have to stay in place for atleast 20 mins, cheers

@MeppyMan

Ай бұрын

@@OutThereLearning sure. I figured that would still be possible if placed there from the helicopter. I guess I prefer flying than climbing 🤣

@nebuchadnezzar6894

Ай бұрын

​@@MeppyMan A helicopter wouldn't have been able to land on the summit.

@heli-crewhgs5285

Ай бұрын

@@nebuchadnezzar6894No, but the geologists could have been winched down. They could be retrieved later on, once their tasks were completed.

@MeppyMan

Ай бұрын

@@nebuchadnezzar6894 I’m aware. I’m an ex helicopter pilot. :) they don’t have to land.

Falling rocks and ice are far more dangerous with some mountains. I like rocks falling on me from safer mountains...

Get acrophobia just watching them stood on the peak.

Just like what has been happening for millions and millions of years…

Greywacke is a stone the splints of it are able to cut into leather shoes I have proved it with my walking shoes.

@OutThereLearning

Ай бұрын

😏

@Kiwigeo8339

Ай бұрын

Greywacke is a German word. It refers to a sandstone generally characterized by its hardness, dark color, and poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments set in a compact, clay-fine matrix. The name is an old one and under modern sandstone classification schemes a lithic rich sandstone is referred to as a litharenite

@reuireuiop0

7 күн бұрын

​​@@Kiwigeo8339Nah, prefer Greywacke, then, which sounds like one of the bad guy's cronies in Ring des Nibelungen, while Litharenite is more like a failed medieval scientist who tried to make gold, but came up with another sorta stone instead

So, you're saying i can't just rock up to the summit in shorts, singlet and jandals then?

@geoffbeyer1873

Ай бұрын

Yeah, yeah, na, na, she'll be right mate

@OutThereLearning

Ай бұрын

Hm, maybe not..

But what about the huge flocks of sheep on the summit? Didn’t that contribute to the collapse? In New Zealand, nothing happens without sheep!

@OutThereLearning

29 күн бұрын

Ah true! 🤔

If you are around when that mountain is not . Give me a shout..or two..

Natures way.

@ronsamborski6230

25 күн бұрын

That was a great song by Spirit way back when. 🎵🎶

Ah the Gap of Rohan 😂

Yep, this is what mountains do due to mechanical, and chemical weathering. So this is no big deal.

Seems too short to have that many glaciers

@OutThereLearning

2 күн бұрын

Fair point - it's due to the high precipitation and dynamism of the glaciers that they reach such low elevations all around the mountain.

Rut row.

Did they used this mountain in the Lord of the Rings The Two Towers when they lighted the Beacons?

There is some UFO which comes at 1:03 minutes and then it dissappears

@OutThereLearning

16 күн бұрын

Glider

Oh really?

If it can just collapse, why are climbers going back up?!!

@OutThereLearning

24 күн бұрын

Because it's there?

Well, this adds a little spice to the crazies' smorgasbord of risk....

:53!!! 🥴🥴, Sure!! 🥃

No video of the collapse mneans this is not a video, it's a magazine article with pictures.

@fraserthomson5766

Ай бұрын

@@mattic6no video of your comment mneans that was not a comment, it’s just a hater with no spell checker.

@simonmonto

Ай бұрын

​@@fraserthomson5766 😂😂😂 touchè!

KILOMETERS????? METERS?????

@skydiverclassc2031

26 күн бұрын

Welcome the the rest of the world.

It can’t have three peaks. It has two lower pointy bits and a higher pointy top.

@OutThereLearning

22 күн бұрын

@@pauljurgen-romrig9616 their called Lower Peak, Middle Peak and High Peak for that reason 🙂

Noway id risk my life to measure a mountain. Id stans at the bottom. Yup its 3 ft shorter. Good day.

@OutThereLearning

25 күн бұрын

@@eligebrown8998 🙂🙂

@ThePaulv12

25 күн бұрын

On the radio there was an Indian scientist that climbed Everest to confirm the height. As it turns out it was exact, but the didn't know for sure. Anyway he nearly lost his life on the descent. Somebody going up kicked him to see if he was still alive and it saved his life he was saying. Lost all his toes.

Pretty sure this was in lord of the rings?

Millions of years of erosion, eh!

@ACDZ123

28 күн бұрын

Yeah, it shrunk 40 metres in one minute lol

@clooktout

28 күн бұрын

Yes things like this do raise questions about other geological features claimed to have been sculptured over millions of years, may be need a rethink!

@SvendleBerries

27 күн бұрын

Well yeah, thats how mountains work. Mount Cook used to be much taller, but millions of years of erosion has shortened it little by little.

@ACDZ123

27 күн бұрын

@SvendleBerries not really. We just witnessed evidence that it shrank 40 meters overnight...

@SvendleBerries

26 күн бұрын

@@ACDZ123 Yeah, and not all erosion happens like that. Most of it is a little bit here, a little bit there. I mean, they used to not exist at all. At one point, that rock was at the bottom of the ocean. Mountains are very large and they get smaller over long periods of time. Thats how erosion works. The Appalachian mountains, for example, used to be as tall as these mountains, but because they are much older they have eroded to where they are now.

The earthquakes did not cause the uplift. Uplift caused the earthquakes.

@BruceHayward1

2 күн бұрын

Yes the compressive forces between the tectonic plates caused the ruptures on the Alpine and other faults which resulted in the uplift on the Pacific side (Southern Alps) of the plate boundary.

Nah bro to many cook ups using gas

Of course. But how did the earth warm up from any of the ice ages over the millennia without us pesky humans interfering?

@Alex-ie1qu

24 күн бұрын

All the “robust scientific data” that basically all “climate scientists agree on is 100 - 150 years old at best. The earth is 4.6 billion years old and had gone through several ice ages and warming periods. None of that matters, all you need to know,is pay more in taxes and give up more of the wonderful technologies that have made our lives so much better and the govt will fix it for us. They would never lie to us right?

@donjacobs5813

24 күн бұрын

I'm not pesky. Petty, sure.

@ytmndman

18 күн бұрын

Natural cycles, which occur much more slowly than the current anthropogenic warming.

Pay more Tax to Stop it

Damn cow farts.

Great video, but you could have mentioned climate change when you said that glaciers on NZ are all shrinking, for people to make the link

Glay--seer. Correct pronunciation

@OutThereLearning

Ай бұрын

@@alan4sure nope, comes from the French, glace = ice,

@alan4sure

Ай бұрын

@@OutThereLearning nonetheless, nobody in the world except Brits actually pronounce it that way. Same idea as "alu-min-ee-um." Lol

@SvendleBerries

27 күн бұрын

Different areas of the world things are pronounced differently. Even within countries accents can change depending on where you are.

Never fear, as the Grand Solar Minimum bites, the glaciers will grow.

@neiltwaterhouse

Ай бұрын

unfortunately, it looks as though anthropogenic warming will greatly overpower any reprieve a solar minimum, grand or otherwise, might provide.

@mm-qd1ho

Ай бұрын

According to NASA: "The warming caused by the greenhouse gas emissions from the human burning of fossil fuels is six times greater than the possible decades-long cooling from a prolonged Grand Solar Minimum."

@SvendleBerries

27 күн бұрын

@@mm-qd1ho The "experts" make it seem like ice melting has never happened before in Earths history. Everything will be fine. Earth has been through a lot worse than us in the past 4.6 billion years. And the last several times ice ages had ended Humans werent around to be used as a scapegoat.

Apparently I missed it.

When will I be blamed for this because I drive a car?

@paulpaulsen7777

25 күн бұрын

After you paid your fine for extinction of the dinosaurs 🦕 🦖

@shawnarni8101

25 күн бұрын

Yeah definitely your fault, not mine. I only drive two cars and a bicycle

@carfvallrightsreservedwith6649

25 күн бұрын

After they fail at blaming cow farts.

@ronsamborski6230

25 күн бұрын

Your punishment is to eat bugs for the rest of your life. 🦟🐜

@paulpaulsen7777

25 күн бұрын

@@ronsamborski6230 And grass

On the top is the Best place in the world to get stoned

@guyincognito.

Ай бұрын

I think you've misinterpreted 'highest point in NZ'.

@Kiwigeo8339

Ай бұрын

@@guyincognito. Yeah that and New Zealand being "green".

@MeppyMan

Ай бұрын

lol. A few layers to that comment.

@catha.j.stuart2200

Ай бұрын

Or bouldered

@jakollee

24 күн бұрын

But remember, you’d still have to climb back down.

LouiseAustralia 🦘