The 111-year-old Hooker Hut has reopened in Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park six years after it was removed due to the crumbling moraine wall. The hut, the oldest in the park, has been restored and relocated to a terrace in the Hooker Valley, about 20-minutes off the popular Hooker Valley Track and about a two-hour walk […]
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