Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill

This guide to Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill opens just after midnight on the 28th of October 1994, when a Maori activist named Mike Smith climbed to the summit with a borrowed chainsaw, angered by a newly announced billion-dollar settlement of historic land claims. Along the way it traces the mountain's older losses too: a totara felled for firewood in 1852, and the lone pine planted in its place that later gave the hill its English name.