The Collapse of Mount Cook
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Aoraki Mount Cook is New Zealand's highest mountain peak. Majestic from the distance, but how solid is this mountain really?
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Footage courtesy of GNS Science, Otago University and Making Movies, Auckland
The Aoraki Ridge ascent is the hardest,
toughest,
steepest,
most challenging climb that I've ever
refused to attempt.
It’s the hardest climb _I’ve_ ever experienced. And that was sitting on my couch watching _other_ people do it! 😶
Gold star comment.
I had my eyes closed when I did it.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, brilliant ! 🤣
Me too. It was hell, I tell you, hell!
Tell me about it, I almost dropped my sandwich.
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
That would have been a memorable flight!
The ridge is one of the hardest climbs I’ve done. Bloody scary.
@morganspencer-churchill2136 - I'll bet it is! You wouldn't get me up there!
What part of 'This shape is the result of eons of mountain-slides' escaped your notice ?.
:P
Many Aussies have died trying.
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 👍
Respect to anyone who can climb up there.
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.
I love the word greywacke. Cool word.
A lot of Hawke’s Bay is greywacke too, eg the stone beaches in Napier/Hastings.
Cool word but dull rock. And it's everywhere! Makes finding interesting rocks a true hunt.
@@luciddaze248 Dull rock? I reckon it would make a great name for a rock band. :)
@@Shaun.StephensYes!! When do they tour the US?? 😅😅😂
When you hear greywacke think dirty sandstone.
Sad that the previously iconic peak has gone. Brave of those geologists to climb to the summit to get new readings. TYVM for video posting.
@@AlistairKiwi thank you
Yeah fantastic effort thanks.
What goes up must come down over millions of years. 😊
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?
@@BillMurrey Plate tectonics hasn't stopped. Mountains can be rising and eroding at the same time.
Is there perhaps a whiff of creationist in the wind?
@@citetez I didn't say plate tectonics has stopped, but it is very slow. Erosion is quicker. Look up the erosion rate and see how 'fast' continents erode. They can't last for millions of years.
I distinctly remember flying my paraglider from the summit of Porter Heights in summer in late 1991. Flying as high as 12,750 feet ASL (which was illegal!) above the Craigieburn range, the ugly black scar on the northern side of Aoraki was easily visible 125km away. That afternoon I was able to look down 4,000 feet onto the top surface of a 747 as if flew down the Craigieburn valley. That gave me goosebumps. Later on I found a dragonfly that had been sucked up from ground level in the thermal I was in, and he must have been a bit confused at over 11,000 feet. He rested on my leg for a while, before flying away. The thermal activity that day was wild, with many exceeding 10m/s vertical climb rate. It was a very exciting day!
@@Chris.Davies what am amazing experience.
I have just started paragliding, so it is particularly interesting!
I used to flyfish in N.Z. back before 911, when the Air NZ pilots would bank their 737s up close to the peak....soooo awesome views.....it was like you could almost reach out and touch it they got so close.....this would be flights from Auckland to Invergargill or Queenstown. Those were the days my friends!
I'm so glad I did not hear how millions of years ago this Mt. was formed, just simple science. Thanks
I remember in 79 Cook lost a similar amount off its peak possibly a bit more well reported by the Star and NZ Herald.
This is what comes from making your mountains out of sandstone. 😁
🙂
Should have gone with Roman cement?! Next time?!
@@k.chriscaldwell4141 Could've sent some Pacific outrigger seamen to go get it
4.5 Billion years of age, SO spectacular and spiritual 😊
Mount Cook and the area around it are one of the most beautiful places I've ever been to.
Interesting to know that the glaciers are a part of holding the rock in place. Nice video!
@@coraltown1 yep, they eroded the cliffs and buttress them at the same time. So when they disappear the oversteepened cliffs are less supported
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.
@@nicholasturner5146 thanks for your comment
Its all a big pissing match....
I’m just convincing myself if a handful of Hobbits can climb it, I can climb it.
@@MrKent84 for sure!
Gravity: That’s why the young mountains are tall and the older mountains are much smaller.
Or erosion, either one.
For a "collapsed" mountain, it still looks pretty tall. Hyperbole abounds.
Capital Peak climb near Aspen is similar. It’s a wicked knife edge ridge
I'm so old I was educated pre-metric. 12,349 is burnt in my brain, though I know it is not that now.
Now you will have to remember 12,218.
@@hadz8671 I may be old, but i can and did save that to my phone. 🙂 So the plains are made.
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
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..
the death rate on everest shows that everest is far less forgiving. comparing 12,000 feet to 29,000 feet is ludicrous.
@@captainspock6221 Very true, but I was alluding to the sheer 'jaggedness' of Mt Cook's vs Everest's peak.
@@captainspock6221how many thousands more people climb everest per year compared to aoraki? Would be interesting to find out the deaths:attempts ratio comparing the two mountains. Apparently, Annapurna is the world's deadliest mountain with a 35% fatality rate.
New Zealand is the world's greatest open air museum for geologists
Aye!
Its not the first, but definitely the turd
The wind and water wins every time. Prove me wrong.
Gravity😊
@@myview5840 entropy.
lesson: don't buy cheap summits - go ahead and spend the money on a quality summit
There are some things that money can't buy
Spent 18 months of my apprenticeship workjng on black birch fan, building houses & depot for the ministery of works.. the cloud piercer was our daily view..
That ridge reminds me of "The Knife's Edge" between Mount Katahdin and Pamola Peak.
Another great upload, thanks OTL
Cheers!
That initial image of the mountain looked just like "The Brothers", a twin-peaked mountain of the Olympic Mountains, west of Seattle.
Mountains, Gandalf!
Our country is so intresting love learning about home
Very educational. Thanks.
Cheers!
Skied down from the peak in 2008. Quite a thrill actually.
@@cal4625 for real? That's impressive!
Bob Harvey disappeared climbing the Zubriggen in 1988. I still miss you Bob.
Given what that mountain is made of, I'm surprised it's lasted this long.
1:02 Looks like a glider soaring there.
What a great bedtime story thank you
climb a dangerously crumbling peak with 1000s of feet sheer drop? the mind boggles.
Now it's much easier to climb, in mountaineering publications it's difficulty rating went from severely difficult to horrendously boring. It's amazing what a difference a few meters makes.
@@toter-drache 🤣
Absolutely beautiful...never been there but isn't this where Lord of the Rings was filmed?
It is
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?
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!
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!
NZ's most expensive hotel. Costs an arm and a leg. With views to die for. Ask Mark Inglis, it cost him two legs.
Geology in action
Pretty ballsy, it could have collapsed again while you were there.
Yeah!
I remember when that happened in 1991....
Only shilly shausagers would climb thish !
Shoundsh like he needsh new denturesh!
@@tomwilkinson392 dine chewers?
This is so good. 👏👏
Beautiful places = Dynamic
Stick to mountaineering in Holland. It's less dangerous!
Or Florida!
Interesting video. Why did they need to climb to measure the height? Helicopter could have done it without the risk.
For millimetre precision the GPS units have to stay in place for atleast 20 mins, cheers
@@OutThereLearning sure. I figured that would still be possible if placed there from the helicopter. I guess I prefer flying than climbing 🤣
@@MeppyMan A helicopter wouldn't have been able to land on the summit.
@@nebuchadnezzar6894No, but the geologists could have been winched down. They could be retrieved later on, once their tasks were completed.
@@nebuchadnezzar6894 I’m aware. I’m an ex helicopter pilot. :) they don’t have to land.
Planet doing what planets do. No crisis.
The only crisis is the crisis in confidence we have in the paid "scientists" who falsely predict climate doom, so the elites can raise more taxes.
Thanks. 👊🏼✌🏻
So, the world goes on as it always has and always will until the death of the sun.
Kiwi here looks like difficult climb maybe more so than everest as less climbing infrastructure sherpas ladder teams to prep crevasse etc
Very interesting, thanks
Cheers!
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!
Ah true! 🤔
There are many obscure peaks throughout the High Sierra that are extremely scary to ascend.
Known as "Cookie Mountain" to those in the know.
The Top of the Mountain just fell off . . . . . . .
. . . . . Lets Climb it !
at least the front didn't fall off, Justsaying
😏
Need to do one about Mt Ruapehu
A soothing voice
With,a slight lisp
This just collapsed. Let's go climb it.
Great video
Thanks!
It’s eroding and collapsing, cool let’s go stand on it!
@@GNeyland 🙂
Ein sehr guter Beitrag.
Germany
Danke!
I dont like your face!
Cook- "ok, I'll change"
That is called erosion. Geological time erases mountains.
Terribly schocking 40 meters lost! Was it insured?
not even,,,
Yep, this is what mountains do due to mechanical, and chemical weathering. So this is no big deal.
Very beautiful.
I remember when it happen,😢
What do you expect from an uplift that occurred in the middle bronze?
Falling rocks and ice are far more dangerous with some mountains.
I like rocks falling on me from safer mountains...
A very large self-sharpening stone axe.
So glaciers buttress the mountain. Glaciers are receding, so mountainsides are losing their support. Since the mountains are significantly older than the glaciers, why didn't they collapse BEFORE the glaciers were created in the last ice age?
@@bracedh3722 the glaciers are always moving and cutting their way downwards, thus continually oversteepening the mountainsides. When the ice melts, the slopes are destabilised, and rockfalls increase.
Gravity always wins
Greywacke is a stone the splints of it are able to cut into leather shoes I have proved it with my walking shoes.
😏
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
@@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
Climbing mountains is for the crazies, especially when there is no need, and we have helicopters/drones etc.
Not unreasonable, but there again eating junk food and sitting on the couch is just as high risk, but not such a great experience 🙂
So, you're saying i can't just rock up to the summit in shorts, singlet and jandals then?
Yeah, yeah, na, na, she'll be right mate
Hm, maybe not..
Get acrophobia just watching them stood on the peak.
If you are around when that mountain is not .
Give me a shout..or two..
When these mountains were born that was what caused the great flood.
Are we supposed to feel bad about this? It's natural.
No
It is the nature of mountains to become grains of sand.
40 meters is like 2 inches isn't it.
Technically, 131.23 feet 🦶. But in the grand scheme of things, I see your point.
Natures way.
That was a great song by Spirit way back when. 🎵🎶
Ah the Gap of Rohan 😂
It's a melted giant structure.
Seems too short to have that many glaciers
Fair point - it's due to the high precipitation and dynamism of the glaciers that they reach such low elevations all around the mountain.
There is some UFO which comes at 1:03 minutes and then it dissappears
Glider
Warum kann ich die Kommentare nicht mehr für mich verständlich übersetzen lassen?
If it can just collapse, why are climbers going back up?!!
Because it's there?
ask Andrew Hall how mountains are formed. You sure don't know
Please tell me not all Kiwi's sound like the narrator.
Luckily for you they don't lol
The earthquakes did not cause the uplift. Uplift caused the earthquakes.
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.
Just like The Old Man of the Mountain 😂
It can’t have three peaks. It has two lower pointy bits and a higher pointy top.
@@pauljurgen-romrig9616 their called Lower Peak, Middle Peak and High Peak for that reason 🙂
We must reduce carbon based emissions to prevent these peaks!
Well, this adds a little spice to the crazies' smorgasbord of risk....
Did they used this mountain in the Lord of the Rings The Two Towers when they lighted the Beacons?