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Aoraki/Mount Cook in monochrome

Photos are copyright Doug Spencer.

Featured image shows New Zealand’s highest peak, viewed from its inland side, at 4.34 pm on March 27, 2019.

I suggest you zoom in on the high ridges to see the windblown fresh snow streaming into the air, like sand off a dune.

That morning, driving north beside Lake Pukaki toward Mount Cook/Aoraki, the view ahead was certainly dramatic, but it suggested that we would not that day see more than fleeting glimpses of the tallest, still-glaciated peaks.

 

Lake Pukaki, 11.19 am, March 27, 2019. Copyright Doug Spencer

 

This post’s final image was taken at 5.40 pm, looking north up the Tasman Valley, with Aoraki/Mt Cook now entirely exposed, basking in uninterrupted sunshine.

 

5.40 pm, 27 March 2019. Copyright Doug Spencer

(there is more of this national park to come on Pelican Yoga – in colour and in black and white)

Published in nature and travel New Zealand photographs