Hooker Valley track
Glacier valley walk over swing bridges to an iceberg-dotted lake below the highest peak.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to the Hooker Valley Track, in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park near Queenstown, follows the professional mountain guides of the early Hermitage hotel. It starts with three of them, packhorses and an unbuilt track around nineteen ten, and follows chief guide Peter Graham and his colleague Darby Thomson through the years they led clients like Freda Du Faur onto the peaks. Best heard as you set off up the valley, near the boulder still called Freda's Rock.
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