The Collapse of Mount Cook
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 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.
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.
Hiking mountain trails is a challenge that tests your endurance. However, the reward for overcoming these difficulties is unmatched :)
Did the NZ Copeland trail in the 80is....one of the very best!
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.
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
I remember in 79 Cook lost a similar amount off its peak possibly a bit more well reported by the Star and NZ Herald.
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.
lesson: don't buy cheap summits - go ahead and spend the money on a quality summit
The wind and water wins every time. Prove me wrong.
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
Planet doing what planets do. No crisis.
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.
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?
I'm so glad I did not hear how millions of years ago this Mt. was formed, just simple science. Thanks
New Zealand is the world's greatest open air museum for geologists
Aye!
Its not the first, but definitely the turd
Another great upload, thanks OTL
Cheers!
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.
This is so good. 👏👏
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
40 meters is like 2 inches isn't it.
What a great bedtime story thank you
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.
Very educational. Thanks.
Cheers!
1:02 Looks like a glider soaring there.
Bob Harvey disappeared climbing the Zubriggen in 1988. I still miss you Bob.
Great video
Thanks!
Very interesting, thanks
Cheers!
Thanks. 👊🏼✌🏻
climb a dangerously crumbling peak with 1000s of feet sheer drop? the mind boggles.
Very beautiful.
Our country is so intresting love learning about home
I remember when that happened in 1991....
I’m just convincing myself if a handful of Hobbits can climb it, I can climb it.
@@MrKent84 for sure!
Geology in action
Pretty ballsy, it could have collapsed again while you were there.
Yeah!
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! 🤔
Need to do one about Mt Ruapehu
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!
Beautiful places = Dynamic
There are many obscure peaks throughout the High Sierra that are extremely scary to ascend.
A soothing voice
With,a slight lisp
Known as "Cookie Mountain" to those in the know.
What do you expect from an uplift that occurred in the middle bronze?
I remember when it happen,😢
I dont like your face!
Cook- "ok, I'll change"
Only shilly shausagers would climb thish !
Shoundsh like he needsh new denturesh!
@@tomwilkinson392 dine chewers?
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.
The Top of the Mountain just fell off . . . . . . .
. . . . . Lets Climb it !
at least the front didn't fall off, Justsaying
😏
Mountains, Gandalf!
It’s eroding and collapsing, cool let’s go stand on it!
@@GNeyland 🙂
Ein sehr guter Beitrag.
Germany
Danke!
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
This just collapsed. Let's go climb it.
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..
Staying for Kmart version of Sir David Attenborough
Get acrophobia just watching them stood on the peak.
Falling rocks and ice are far more dangerous with some mountains.
I like rocks falling on me from safer mountains...
Natures way.
That was a great song by Spirit way back when. 🎵🎶
Yep, this is what mountains do due to mechanical, and chemical weathering. So this is no big deal.
Just like what has been happening for millions and millions of years…
Ah the Gap of Rohan 😂
If you are around when that mountain is not .
Give me a shout..or two..
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.
Well, this adds a little spice to the crazies' smorgasbord of risk....
If it can just collapse, why are climbers going back up?!!
Because it's there?
No video of the collapse mneans this is not a video, it's a magazine article with pictures.
@@mattic6no video of your comment mneans that was not a comment, it’s just a hater with no spell checker.
@@fraserthomson5766 😂😂😂 touchè!
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
Glider
Oh really?
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 🙂
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.
Rut row.
:53!!! 🥴🥴, Sure!! 🥃
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.
KILOMETERS????? METERS?????
Welcome the the rest of the world.
Millions of years of erosion, eh!
Yeah, it shrunk 40 metres in one minute lol
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!
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.
@SvendleBerries not really. We just witnessed evidence that it shrank 40 meters overnight...
@@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.
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.
Pretty sure this was in lord of the rings?
Nah bro to many cook ups using gas
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
@@alan4sure nope, comes from the French, glace = ice,
@@OutThereLearning nonetheless, nobody in the world except Brits actually pronounce it that way. Same idea as "alu-min-ee-um." Lol
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.
unfortunately, it looks as though anthropogenic warming will greatly overpower any reprieve a solar minimum, grand or otherwise, might provide.
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."
@@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?
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
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.
LouiseAustralia 🦘