Climbing Mt Taranaki



August 1995: The Shark’s Tooth is far harder than the climb up to the highest point on Mt Taranaki. The Shark’s Tooth’s billowing pillows of hard rime ice were an altogether different proposition. However, with Alastair’s encouragement and expertise, we made it. This is a photograph I took looking down Mt Taranaki’s east ridge from the 2,510 metre-high summit of the Shark’s Tooth, and …