A blanket of cloud lay down in the valley. Magically we sat above it, with a plane-window-seat view of the phenomenal scene. Once upon a time that valley below would have been filled with glacier up to that cloud level, all the way for miles and miles. The soft white blanket deleted any sign of human existence, transporting us back, deep through time to an eon long ago. We sat on the mountain ledge, with an illuminated Aoraki ahead, the only humans left in the silence of time and space.
“F***, it’s freezing!”
“Pass me the rum”
This shot isn’t actually taken at midnight, that just sounded good as a title ;) It’s early morning, dawn is just around the corner, and I am blown away by what I see before me!
I’ve been snapping shots of Mt Cook for the past 12 hours, waiting and hoping for ‘that shot’, the image that will be forever burned into my memory and remind me of my experience here.
This is without doubt, ‘that shot’.
Pardon then French but that is a f*cken awesome photo Cookie – congrats, we might have to get a copy off you once you’re back in the UK.
Nick & Jane
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Beautiful picture! Truly amazing.
I’m sure you’ve received plenty of requests like this before, but I stumbled on your blog and you two seem very fit to help me out. A friend and I plan on hiking the Te Araroa just like you two in late 2015, and I have a few questions that I would like to throw at someone with experience of making the hike. The email link under “Get in Touch” doesn’t work for some reason, so would you mind shooting me a message at this address? I would really, really appreciate it. Thanks!
Absolutely magnificent, stunning visual…this is a 1x-in-a-lifetime-picture and pure inspiration. Reading about your journey is life-affirming and magic…thank you and please keep on. :)