Mt Cook National Park

Mt Cook is known as Aoraki by the Maori and stands at 3,754 metres, which makes this mountain the highest in New Zealand, Australasia, and Oceania. Sir Edmund Hillary, (a New Zealander), the first man to climb Mt Everest gained his mountaineering experience on Mt Cook. The mountain consists of three summits lying slightly south and east of the main divide, the LowPeak, Middle Peak and High Peak, with the Tasman Glacier to the east and the Hooker Glacier to the west.
There are many activities on offer to enjoy Mount Cook and Mt Cook National Park. Activities including miles of tracks, scenic flights, and a heli-skiing adventure to the one of the world's longest ski runs, (down the Tasman glacier). Mt Tasman is the second highest mountain in New Zealand and is four kilometres to the north of Mt Cook.