Copland Pass - January 1979

All images © David Noble. No image can be used for any purpose without permission. Some photographs taken by Gordon Thompson.



Our tent at the campground at Mt Cook



Above - Gordon on the left with three NZ girls (KIm, Kim and Trudy) we met at the campground



Above - We climbed a low peak near the hotel - Mt Sebastapol, to get this view of the Tasman Glacier



Above - Looking up the Hooker Glacier to Mt Cook



Above - Mt Cook from the campground



Above - Mt Sefton and The Footstool



Above - Looking up the Hooker Valley



Above - Mt Cook from the Hooker Valley



Above - Hogsback on Mt Cook - the signal of bad weather approaching



Above - Not long after, Mt Cook.



Above - Mt Cook



Above - Looking down the valley - fine weather away from the peaks



Above - near Copeland Pass - the emergency shelter (we spent the night inside it)



Above - Looking up to the pass



Above - View of Mt Cook



Above - on the Main Divide



Above - View from the top of the pass



Above - View from the top of the pass



Above - Gordon walking back down to the shelter



Above - Dave on the way down to the shelter



Above - Dave on the way down to the shelter



Above - Mt Cook



Above - Mt Cook



Above - Mt Cook



Above - sunrise



Above - Bad weather is coming!



Above - View from the top of the pass



Above - Dave walking down the far side of the pass



Above - The upper basins



Above - waterfall



Above - Looking down the valley



Above - Gordon on the track down the Copeland River



Above - Looking up the valley



Above - We stop in this hut for lunch - Dave and Gordon on the right



Above - Gordon on a swing bridge



Above - Looking up the valley



Above - Enjoying the thermal pools at Welcome Flat



Above - The next day it rained all the way down the valley. Here Gordon shelters under a boulder



Above - Gordon on the left and some other trampers enjoying a beer at the Fox Pub.

We later caught a bus to Hokatika and then went on the Three Passes Walk

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