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Aoraki/Mt Cook route conquered by hippies
Long-haired Christchurch mountaineers John Glasgow and Peter Gough became the first to successfully scale the 2000-m Caroline Face of Aoraki/Mt Cook, declaring it a ‘triumph for the hippies’
Painting of Aoraki/Mt Cook, 1846
Ngai Tahu's sacred maunga (mountain) Aoraki or Mt Cook, in 1846. Watercolour by Charles Heaphy
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