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Aoraki / Mount Cook at 12,218 ft is the highest mountain in New Zealand. It lies in the Southern Alps, the mountain range which runs the length of the South Island. According to Māori legend, Aoraki was a young boy who, along with his three brothers, were the sons of Rakinui, the Sky Father. The Ngāi Tahu, the main iwi (tribe) of New Zealand's southern region, consider Aoraki as the most sacred of the ancestors that they had descended from Popular with mountain climbers, among them, Sir Edmund Hillary, who made his first ascent in January 1948, before tackling Mt. Everest in 1953. Thanks for visiting "It's a Beautiful World!"
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