Summit

November 29th and 30th

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November 30th 2008
We were in N P for the last couple days. I wanted to climb Mt taranaki so the 29th we went and got everything ready. we needed ice axes and clamp-on ice shoes. We did the summit in 5 hours and it took another 3 hours to get back. My smoking Canadian ass made it up first before an American, English, and Israel. ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » New Plymouth

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more