The Collapse of Mount Cook
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- 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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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.
lesson: don't buy cheap summits - go ahead and spend the money on a quality summit
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
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.
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.
The wind and water wins every time. Prove me wrong.
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?
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
I remember in 79 Cook lost a similar amount off its peak possibly a bit more well reported by the Star and NZ Herald.
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.
Only shilly shausagers would climb thish !
Shoundsh like he needsh new denturesh!
@@tomwilkinson392 dine chewers?
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
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.
Yep, this is what mountains do due to mechanical, and chemical weathering. So this is no big deal.
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.
Stick to mountaineering in Holland. It's less dangerous!
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!
Pretty ballsy, it could have collapsed again while you were there.
Yeah!
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.
New Zealand is the world's greatest open air museum for geologists
Aye!
Its not the first, but definitely the turd
climb a dangerously crumbling peak with 1000s of feet sheer drop? the mind boggles.
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.
Capital Peak climb near Aspen is similar. It’s a wicked knife edge ridge
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
I’m just convincing myself if a handful of Hobbits can climb it, I can climb it.
@@MrKent84 for sure!
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! 🤔
1:02 Looks like a glider soaring there.
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.
Falling rocks and ice are far more dangerous with some mountains.
I like rocks falling on me from safer mountains...
Noway id risk my life to measure a mountain. Id stans at the bottom. Yup its 3 ft shorter. Good day.
@@eligebrown8998 🙂🙂
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.
Mountains, Gandalf!
I remember when that happened in 1991....
I dont like your face!
Cook- "ok, I'll change"
4.5 Billion years of age, SO spectacular and spiritual 😊
Our country is so intresting love learning about home
Geology in action
40 meters is like 2 inches isn't it.
Technically, 131.23 feet 🦶. But in the grand scheme of things, I see your point.
Very educational. Thanks.
Cheers!
Kiwi here looks like difficult climb maybe more so than everest as less climbing infrastructure sherpas ladder teams to prep crevasse etc
I'm so glad I did not hear how millions of years ago this Mt. was formed, just simple science. Thanks
Known as "Cookie Mountain" to those in the know.
What a great bedtime story thank you
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.
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.
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
Absolutely beautiful...never been there but isn't this where Lord of the Rings was filmed?
It is
Another great upload, thanks OTL
Cheers!
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
When will I be blamed for this because I drive a car?
After you paid your fine for extinction of the dinosaurs 🦕 🦖
Yeah definitely your fault, not mine. I only drive two cars and a bicycle
After they fail at blaming cow farts.
Your punishment is to eat bugs for the rest of your life. 🦟🐜
@@ronsamborski6230 And grass
Bob Harvey disappeared climbing the Zubriggen in 1988. I still miss you Bob.
Mount Cook and the area around it are one of the most beautiful places I've ever been to.
Get acrophobia just watching them stood on the peak.
Please tell me not all Kiwi's sound like the narrator.
Luckily for you they don't lol
I remember when it happen,😢
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..
Ah the Gap of Rohan 😂
This just collapsed. Let's go climb it.
If it can just collapse, why are climbers going back up?!!
Because it's there?
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!
Thanks. 👊🏼✌🏻
ask Andrew Hall how mountains are formed. You sure don't know
The Top of the Mountain just fell off . . . . . . .
. . . . . Lets Climb it !
at least the front didn't fall off, Justsaying
😏
It’s eroding and collapsing, cool let’s go stand on it!
@@GNeyland 🙂
This is so good. 👏👏
Did they used this mountain in the Lord of the Rings The Two Towers when they lighted the Beacons?
That's what mountains do. They erode away. Happens all the time and we can't do anything about it. Sorry
Beautiful places = Dynamic
I would suggest that narrating documentary films isn't the best career path for those with speech impediments...........
Fanks..
Need to do one about Mt Ruapehu
Ein sehr guter Beitrag.
Germany
Danke!
We must reduce carbon based emissions to prevent these peaks!
Great video
Thanks!
There are many obscure peaks throughout the High Sierra that are extremely scary to ascend.
It is the nature of mountains to become grains of sand.
Natures way.
That was a great song by Spirit way back when. 🎵🎶
Just like The Old Man of the Mountain 😂
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.
Very beautiful.
Pretty sure this was in lord of the rings?
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 🙂
What do you expect from an uplift that occurred in the middle bronze?
Terribly schocking 40 meters lost! Was it insured?
not even,,,
Warum kann ich die Kommentare nicht mehr für mich verständlich übersetzen lassen?
If you are around when that mountain is not .
Give me a shout..or two..
Of course. But how did the earth warm up from any of the ice ages over the millennia without us pesky humans interfering?
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?
I'm not pesky. Petty, sure.
Natural cycles, which occur much more slowly than the current anthropogenic warming.
Nah bro to many cook ups using gas
There is some UFO which comes at 1:03 minutes and then it dissappears
Glider
On the top is the Best place in the world to get stoned
I think you've misinterpreted 'highest point in NZ'.
@@guyincognito. Yeah that and New Zealand being "green".
lol. A few layers to that comment.
Or bouldered
But remember, you’d still have to climb back down.
It's a melted giant structure.
Very interesting, thanks
Cheers!
Oh really?
Well, this adds a little spice to the crazies' smorgasbord of risk....
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.
A soothing voice
With,a slight lisp
:53!!! 🥴🥴, Sure!! 🥃
Damn cow farts.
Rut row.
Pay more Tax to Stop it
Glacier, not glassier
Depends where you live :-)