Around Pioneer Hut and Chancellor Dome, February 2014
Mount Tasman (3,497m) from Fox, West Coast
From left - Chancellor Dome (2,004m), Glacier Peak (3,002m), Douglas Peak (3,077m) and Mount Haidinger (3,070m), with Fox Glacier in the foreground
The Fox Glacier
Nearing the Fox Neve
Pioneer Hut (2,380m), with Mounts Mallory (2,756m), Barnicoat (2,800m) and Conway (2,899m) behind
Pioneer Hut, with Mount Alack (2,759m) at right
On the left, from left - Grey Peak (2,882m), Pioneer Pass (2,759m), Mounts Haast (3,114m), Lendenfeld (3,194m) and Tasman (3,497m) and Torres Peak (3,160m)
From left - Pioneer Pass (2,759m), Mounts Haast (3,114m), Lendenfeld (3,194m) and Tasman (3,497m) and Torres Peak (3,160m)
Mount Tasman (3,497m)
Mount Tasman
From left - Grey Peak (2,882m), Pioneer Pass (2,759m), Mounts Haast (3,114m), Lendenfeld (3,194m) and Tasman (3,497m) and Torres Peak (3,160m)
Looking west to Pioneer Ridge (2,374m)
Pioneer Hut and Mount Alack
The throne room, next to Pioneer Hut - an airy dump for all comers
Throne room with a view (to Tasman among others)
View north across the Explorer Glacier, from Pioneer Hut
View south and west from Pioneer Hut
View south to Mount Tasman
At dawn, from left - Grey Peak (2,882m), Pioneer Pass (2,759m), Mounts Haast (3,114m), Lendenfeld (3,194m) and Tasman (3,497m)
Lendenfeld and Tasman at dawn
The main divide, from Mount Mallory on the left to Mount Tasman on the right
Red Divide - from Mount Mallory (left) to Mount Tasman (right)
Mount Haidinger (left) to Mount Tasman (right)
Moon rise over Pioneer Ridge
Hut bound, Pioneer Hut
From left - Haidinger, Govenor Col, Grey Peak and Pioneer Pass
Approaching Mount Tasman
Beneath Mount Tasman, with Engineer Col (3,093m) to the left
View north west from beneath Mount Tasman
Approaching Haidinger (right 3,070m) and Douglas Peak (left 3,077m)
Mount Haidinger
Douglas Peak left and Haidinger right
Grey Peak and Pioneer Pass
A chopper approaching Pioneer Ridge
A chopper crossing Newton Pass (2,492m), flanked on the left by Mount Christie (2,636m) and on the right by West Hoe (2,574m)
From right - Mounts Christie, Halcombe, Von Bulow and the Bismark Peaks
Hogs back cloud over Mount Tasman
Hogsback and cirrus clouds over Mount Tasman
Pioneer Hut and the main divide
From left - Lendenfeld, Tasman, Torres, Drake
View west from Pioneer Hut down the Fox Glacier
Lendenfeld and Tasman
View north and west, from Pioneer Hut
View north to Newton Pass
Mount Tasman
Looking south to the main divide on the descent via Chancellor Ridge
From left - Mount Haast (3,114m), Marcel Col (2,987m), Lendenfeld (3,194m), Engineer Col (3,093m), Tasman (3,497m) and Torres Peak (3,160m)
Approaching Chancellor Dome (2,004m)
Nearing the summit of Chancellor Dome with, from left - Mounts Haast (3,114m), Lendenfeld (3,194m) and Tasman (3,497m) and Torres Peak (3,160m)
On top of Chancellor Dome with, from left - Mounts Haast (3,114m), Lendenfeld (3,194m) and Tasman (3,497m) and Torres Peak (3,160m)
Pioneer Ridge is the rock buttress at left. Haidinger is behind and above this. Then the main divide leads along to Govenor Col, Grey Peak, Pioneer Pass, Mt Haast, Marcel Col, Mt Lendenfeld, Engineer Col, Mt Tasman and Torres Peak
Stow away
Intrepid
From left - Mount Tasman, Torres Peak and Aoraki Mount Cook
The upper section of the Fox Glacier
Looking west from beneath Cancellor Ridge
Last view of the big boys before dropping off Chancellor Ridge
Chancellor Hut (1,140m), perched beside Fox Glacier
Chancellor Hut and the terminal moraine of Fox Glacier beyond
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