Its original name comes from the Kai Tahu word for cloud piercer and this peak has the Murchison glacier on its slopes along with the Hooker and Mueller Glaciers at its base.  
Its original name comes from the Kai Tahu word for cloud piercer and this peak has the Murchison glacier on its slopes along with the Hooker and Mueller Glaciers at its base.  The first claimed European summit of the 12,000 foot triple peak was in 1882 and, nowadays it is popular among climbers and a village called the Hermitage was built at its base to accommodate them. Erosion of the mountain is problem because of the mountain's location in the Roaring Forties wind pattern.  Formed by the collision of the Pacific and Australia-Indian tectonic plates, this mountain is located in the Southern Alps range and is the highest peak on its island.  FTP name this mountain that can be denoted by an English or Maori name and is the highest in New Zealand.
Its original name comes from the Kai Tahu word for cloud piercer and this peak has the Murchison glacier on its slopes along with the Hooker and Mueller Glaciers at its base.  
{Mount Cook} or {Aoraki} or {Aoraki/Mount Cook} (this last is the official name)