Aoraki/Mount Cook Grand Traverse
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- čas přidán 15. 01. 2020
- 24 hour car-to-car Grand Traverse of Aoraki, with Alastair McDowell & Rose Pearson.
A midnight start from the Hooker valley, up the Northwest couloir on Low Peak, incredibly good conditions along the classic ice ridge to Middle and High Peak, then the long descent via Linda, Cinerama Col, Ball Road and a mind numbing 10km gravel back to Hooker Valley. Super fun day on the big hill.
Overall 53km distance 4000m vertical.
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Absolute beast. I'm not a mountain climber but just a regular hiker who loves to walk 20km+ , what you did here motivates me to do the unimaginable.
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Thanks for the video which brings back happy memories - well done. I did this traverse in 1970 but from the South Ridge and down the North Ridge. From there over Vancouver, Silberhorn, Tasman, and so on to Haidinger. From there down to Pioneer, Fox Glacier - Welcome Flats and Copland Pass back to Cook Village. We didn't have the gear you guys have, no curved axes, just a single rope, no helmets etc. What you missed out on perhaps is seeing the sunrise and sunsets in both oceans from the summit ridge of Cook and several other times on that traverse.
No small bloody feat I reckon! Props guys!
totally impressed 👍
Phenomenal! I did that over three days once. Can't imagine doing it in a single day
Holy shit! You guys are BEASTS!!!
Spectacular ❣️ 👏🔆🔥🙏
This is mental! Massive send!
Wow!
I watched Mount Cook in January 2020 with my wife and son. From where? At Lake Pukaki. You are super man and wonder woman. I just look pictures of Lake Pukaki and Tekapo at home of South Korea. I need your legs, angles and heart. Thanks a lot for your powerful trip.
Youre so welcome Sanghyun
Wa so cool，i already want to climb MT COOK
Go for it Kevin!!
nice one fit team
Awesome! Do you have the gps file of this track?
www.strava.com/activities/3011662255
How much climbing experience do you need to do this??
To do this route in the standard time of 3-4 days, about 4 years of experience. To do this in 24-hours, about 10 years of experience.
The route is grade 3+ or 4-, roughly AD+/D- in the french system
@@NewZealandAlpineTeam That's about right. I had along with my climbing buddy about ten years in the Alps. Between us most of the 4,000 ers. Eiger (NF) Eiger Mitteleggi..
Matterhorn, Monch, Jungfrau etc., by many different routes. However we both agree that this was the most memorable of all our climbs. It is an absolute classic.
Where is possible to get the GPS for this route? 😊
With that Caffeine 200 in ya body plus goodness knows what else you did an awesome climb that most/many couldn't. Congratulations you guys rocked the crap out of the Kasbah big time plus some. Actually I am going to write some more - this is farking epic. Man you guys have got some hard core guts & courage many of the world's best greatest professional athletes haven't got. Climbing mountains ain't no walk in the park. I have never ever had the nads to do it. I have been an endurance athlete for 20 years though. But it seems pitiful compared to this shit you do. My wife and I holidayed at the Hermitage Mt Aoraki in 2021 as I'd never been in my life and so we went for my 58 birthday. Wow has that location & surrounding area got a massive Ngai Tahu presence - it was quite eerie and I felt it big time, an extremely strong feeling of hardship and adversity, possibly conflict/fighting took place there. It could have even been described as haunting. The weather on the Saturday was perfect & not a cloud in the sky. As I am a trauma hemipelvectomy amputee [complete left leg amp as high up as the hip and pelvis as a result of my near death motorcycle accident in 1990 when I was 26. I suffered numerous other serious internal injuries as well. V fortunate to survive. Doctors & surgeons who saved my life all said my high fitness level greatly contributed to me surviving. 3 weeks in the ICU and a total of 101 days in hospital. Intensive Care was the worst nightmare you can imagine. I was max dosed up on morphine for the amount of pain I was in. Oh - I fell off my bike at approx 200 clicks i.e. km/hr after failing to negotiate a bend in the open road. I slid in to a farmers paddock concrete fence post instantly amputating my left leg at the knee. My bike took out 3 posts and a total of 5 had to be replaced - and I paid for them all plus the wire. I lay in the paddock [11.20pm] and a passing motorist noticed the smashed/shattered pieces of the faring on my bike scattered all over the road and knew something wasn't right - they turned their vehicle lights in to the paddock and discovered me laying there. I never got knocked out but did slip in and out of consciousness most likely from stress. Emergency services were called and arrived to one hell of a mess. I wasn't wearing leathers and only wore a pair of jeans and an army jacket. My left buttock suffered severe injuries from scraping along the road surface. I developed renal failure on the 4th day in the ICU. I was taken in the meat wagon to another hospital that had kidney dialysis machine/equipment. I also had septicemia in the remaining part of my left leg and it was spreading fast. The decision was made to perform a trauma hemipelvectomy operation to remove the remaining part of my leg including my hip and left pelvis - a massive life saving operation. I ran the hospital blood bank dry of my blood type and surgeons were v concerned as they couldn't obtain a fresh blood supply...it was touch & go and here's when I had my near death experience - out of body and I could see doctors & surgeons operating on me. I had the iridescent light bright colors and traveling in an illuminated tunnel spiraling and traveling at warp plus speed. I ended up on the planet Mars with the red dust and it was cold. A 'voice' asked me if I liked it there. I answered it was ok. The 'voice' asked if I wanted to stay. I said no. Next thing I'm doing the tunnel thing again illuminating iridescent light bright colors and traveling at warp plus speed. I then woke up in the recovery room of the operating theater wondering who and what the fark I was. Those next 2 weeks in the ICU were the worst in my life. Sweating profusely, hair falling out, and I wasn't allowed to drink any water at all. All I was allowed was a swab of water inside my mouth - and it was torture. Never slept. Wild mind-bending hallucinations all throughout the day & night. Extreme paranoia. At one point I thought one of my Intensive Care nurses was going to kill me. That feeling is farking scary and something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Utter helplessness. Another Intensive Care nurse who did a case study on me wrote 'I experienced sensory overload'. I was fighting for my life. My body consumed itself and I lost a lot of weight. Every time I got turned over from lying supine to prone and vise versa nurses had to give me a 10mg shot of morphine on top of the morphine drip already mainlining me so the pain could be controlled. Well...do you think I felt ok? I screamed as hard as I possibly could in the intensity of pain I felt. After leaving the ICU I was placed directly near as close to the Nurses station main counter in the Ward as I was high-risk/triage. This time I was so scared at night that I believed if I slept I wouldn't wake up ever again. Went through the whole night in fear of dying. When the new nurse came in early in the morning to check on me I faked pain and asked for my prescribed morphine shot of 10mg - it knocked me out to sleep. I got about 2 hours before waking up and dry retching for half an hour. That protocol continued until finally I began sleeping through the night. Morphine shots ceased to be replaced by Panadol and I was then placed in a room with 4 other patients for company and re-socialization. This novel needs to stop. In the ICU I felt as close to death as I have ever been in my life. There is a saying the closer we are to death the more alive we feel...I agree. And that is precisely why I have so much respect for mountain climbers especially those who are in the the 'Death Zone' on Mt Everest. All mountain climbers have and fully deserve to be totally respected at ALL times whether climbing or 'on-the-ground-surface doing the family thingy. You/they are HEROES who have the most courage of any/all athletes in any/all sport/s. And while mountain climbing isn't a sport, it has every single element sport has & MORE. Mountain climbers - climb to live - live to climb.
Is this the easiest or better from plateau hut?
Easiest route is Linda from Plateau hut. NW Couloir probably the second easiest route, but only gets you to Low Peak. Need to do the grand traverse as in this video to arrive at High peak. Then descend into Plateau.
Can also do the traverse back again to low peak and down to hoker valley then?@@NewZealandAlpineTeam
Also, Is there any part where you have to use rope to climb/abseil? @@NewZealandAlpineTeam
@@NewZealandAlpineTeamalso, for the NW route, need to get up to Endeavour col?
Para que tanto esforço e risco? Teriam eles fincado uma bandeirinha lá? Aposto que eles não exploraram ainda o seu próprio ser interno.
Alpinismo não é para todos. O alpinista deve reconhecer o perigo e julgar o equilíbrio de risco e recompensa. Somente aqueles que se aventuram nas alturas podem realmente entender esse equilíbrio sutil. Obrigado
Para de ser chato.
Wow!