Aoraki Over Hooker Lake — Aoraki / Mount Cook, New Zealand

Panoramic photograph of Aoraki Mount Cook rising above the grey glacial water of Hooker Lake, small icebergs floating in the foreground. — Aoraki Over Hooker Lake
Aoraki / Mount Cook, New Zealand · September 2020
1D X Mark II, 70 millimetres, f 11, 1/500 of a second, ISO 100

The end of the Hooker Track, and the only queue is for the view.

Walk the Hooker Track to its end and this is the payoff: Aoraki standing over its glacial lake, calved ice drifting in water the colour of wet concrete. Stitched as a panorama because no single frame held both the mountain and the ice. Cold, restrained, and exactly why the South Island keeps pulling me back.

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Part of The Southern Alps, a series.