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Rockfall near Mt Cook

ecowain

21-Jan-2013
8:30:14 PM

Large rockfall came down off Mt Dixon today, falling SE-wards and covering much of the Grand Plateau and narrowly missing Plateau Hut. All climbers in vicinity reported to be OK and mostly evacuated.

Photos from a scenic flight

Brief, very brief article.

Tuesday article

CanBeDone

22-Jan-2013
5:26:39 PM

Here's the video footage from the Mt Dixon rockfall:

http://youtu.be/s9G6aI49Le0

brendan

22-Jan-2013
8:51:05 PM

Pretty scary stuff! We climbed the south ridge of dixon and descended the west face (were all the rockfall is) in December. Hard to get scale from that picture but I read somewhere there is 3km by 500m of debris on the glacier

gonzo

22-Jan-2013
9:14:06 PM

woot! new route potential.

not really surprised - that bit between haast and dixon was super poxy. went to try to climb it once to find big blocks stacked on small blocks stacked on weetbix.

ps west ridge of dixon is to the right of the sumit (i think. its been a while)

brendan

23-Jan-2013
5:30:33 AM

Gonzo, West ridge is what connects Dixon to Haast http://climbnz.org.nz/nz/si/aoraki/tasman-glacier/grand-plateau/mt-dixon

Climboholic

23-Jan-2013
9:26:28 AM

Imagine the view and the noise from plateau hut while it was happening! Lucky nobody was climbing Dixon or crossing the plateau. Goes to show that it's not just avalanches you have to worry about in steep places.

Sabu

23-Jan-2013
9:36:37 AM

A comment from alpine guides on that youtube link said someone caught it on their gopro. would love to see that footage!

gonzo

23-Jan-2013
8:48:26 PM

excuse my retardness
sometimes i go upside down

robertsonja

1-Feb-2013
5:24:17 PM

http://www.3news.co.nz/RAW-VIDEO-Landslide-at-Mt-Cook/tabid/309/articleID/284690/Default.aspx?ref=video

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