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Thursday, 20 May 2021, 11:23 am
Visitors to Aoraki/Mount Cook next weekend (29-30 May)
will have the chance to participate in the Hermitage
Hotel’s ‘Hike 5 for Hillary’, an initiative coinciding
with Everest Day to raise funds for The Himalayan
Trust.
Saturday 29 May marks the day Sir Edmund
Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay successfully completed the
first ascent of Mt Everest. The Himalayan Trust launched
Everest Day to acknowledge this great achievement, celebrate
the connection between New Zealand and Nepal and raise money
for communities in the Everest region.
‘Hike 5 for
Hillary’ will see participants donate $5 in exchange for a
bespoke passport style booklet with five hikes listed
Discover Taranaki’s Surf Highway 45 Keep a snowcapped Mt Taranaki on your left on a journey from New Plymouth to Hawera, and you can’t go wrong. Hopefully, the maunga’s perfect volcanic peak will be cloud-free as you negotiate Taranaki’s Surf Highway, taking time to detour down side roads to the skeletal remains of the SS Gairloch shipwreck just south of Ōakura, or the Cape Egmont Lighthouse at Pungarehu on Taranaki’s western-most point. Look forward to brisk westerlies and a winter Tasman swell rolling in all the way from Australia.
Don’t miss Two of regional New Zealand’s best galleries and museums, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth, and the Tawhiti Museum in Hāwera.
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