Polar experience

November 2015

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November 2015

Trampers walking across the vast Summit Plateau with Cathedral Rocks rising high above the glacier. Photo: Zhi Yuen Yap
Summit Plateau, Tongariro National Park / Moderate If you want an alpine experience, but hate the sense of height or exposure of standing on a knife-edge ridge, then Mt Ruapehu’s Summit Plateau is a place for you. The plateau is a flat area consisting of multiple old volcanic craters, now covered by a glacier up […]
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