The summit
White snow.
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Mount Taranaki, also known as Mount Egmont, is a dormant cone-shaped volcano in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. At 2,518 metres it is the second highest mountain in the North Island after Mount Ruapehu, and it has a secondary cone on its south side. Its name comes from the Māori language, after Rua Taranaki, the first ancestor of the Taranaki tribe; tara means mountain peak. Captain James Cook named it Mount Egmont in 1770 after the Earl of Egmont. It sits at the heart of Egmont National Park, whose ring of forest stands out clearly among the farms when seen from space. You see an almost perfectly even cone, its top covered in snow in winter and spring, rising above green pasture, fences and trees. Thick forest and alpine grasses cover the slopes, gravel tracks climb towards the top, and at sunset the summit turns pink above the clouds. It is about 27 km from the city of New Plymouth in a straight line. The summit climb is hard and needs experience, the weather changes fast, and shorter tracks run around the lower slopes.
White snow.
At the foot.
A pink summit.
Egmont National Park, Taranaki, New Zealand
Yes, but it is a hard climb that needs experience and good weather.
Mount Egmont, the name James Cook gave it in 1770.