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| Ice Climbing in New Zealand. An ice climber on the flanks of Mount Cook with Mount Tasman in the background in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. Two weeks after I took this photograph, this entire area was buried under what geologists called a "One- in-ten-thousand-year" geologic event when the entire side of Mount Cook fell away. A four mile long rock and ice avalanche roared 9,000 feet down and across the 1.5 mile wide Tasman glacier and up the other side of the valley. |
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