Climbing Mt Taranaki



September 2008: We then drove both cars round to where we’d arranged to meet Hinrich, Rob, and Scott on the southern side of the mountain after their Mt Taranaki traverse. On the way, I stopped to take this photograph of dairy cows below the snow-covered Fanthams Peak (on the left) and Mt Taranaki. It was a classic Taranaki scene. It wasn’t the only time I stopped to take a photograph on our way back to Wellington …