In Māori cosmology a mountain is not a landform, it is an ancestor. When an English explorer set out to climb Ngauruhoe, his guides went with him to the foot of it and no further, because the summit was tapu. That understanding is written into New Zealand conservation law.
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Trail stories
Photographs from people who were there — pinned to the waypoint, dated, and GPS-verified when the coordinates prove it.
