Heavy erosion like this around Godley Hut in Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park is forcing a rethink on hut location and design. Photo: Peter Laurenson

Fractured landscape

November 2017

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With the closure of another hut in Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park, George Driver investigates the challenge of keeping a foothold in one of the most rapidly changing landscapes on Earth

Looking at Murchison Hut, you’d have no inkling it may soon tumble 200m onto Murchison Glacier in one of the largest landslides in the Southern Alps’ recent history. But, by a strange series of events, scientists discovered the hut had moved a massive nine metres downwards, and nine metres sideways as a huge chunk of […]
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