Mitre Peak
Sheer granite spire rising almost straight out of a fiord, shaped like a bishop's mitre.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Mitre Peak, the pointed summit above Milford Sound near Queenstown, is about appetite and nerve on a mountain nobody had yet climbed. It follows Donald Sutherland, the fiord's first European settler, setting out in February 1883 with an Invercargill artist, very little gear and even less to eat. Along the way you meet Elizabeth Sutherland, whose hotel sat across the water. Best heard from the foreshore or a boat deck, with the peak in full view.
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