Nodi in Aoraki / Mount Cook

Adventurous alpine slabs and cracks in a wild and exposed location. Not for the faint of heart, run out and stiff for the grade, with loose and exposed approaches. Take your rack (and know how to use it) and some abseil sling/cord for the anchors, which are not "rap stations".

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

Climb the left-facing crack with good protection. When that runs out, take a deep breath, traverse left a little and up the bolted slab above.

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

1 (30m): Gain the arete from the highest wee shelf on the left, clip the bolt, then continue up the arete. Note there is a hard to see bolt above the lip before you reach the bolted anchor, to the left of the grassy crack. 2 (15m): A short pitch up through the featured overlap, build an anchor. 3 (40m): Trend back left toward the arete and continue to a bolted belay at the big terrace.

1: Gain the El Nino arete then immediately traverse down and right to a bolted belay stance above the overhang. 2: Climb the bolted slab to below the notch then continue on gear and build an anchor around the base of the crack. 3: Climb the crack, narrowing from fists to thin hands before it disappears. Continue to a bolted belay at the big terrace.

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

This is an alpine environment in a national park. ALL waste must be carried out. Take a poo pot (available from Unwin lodge or DOC at Mt Cook info centre).

If you're staying at Unwin Lodge, just cross the fence and follow a system of obvious paths to the area you wanna go to. If you're coming by car, park on the side of the road between Unwin Lodge and Mt. Cook Village.

Cross fence from Unwin hut at the rear of the carpark. Follow vague track toward the cliff and cross barbed wire fence where PVC pipe has been placed to facilitate access.

Follow clearer tracks up a spur towards a large rock half way up the hill. Stay below the rock and traverse right crossing a gully until well right of the left sector and into clear patches of scrub. Then traverse back left to climbs or dodge your way on vague tracks around brambles to reach the right sector.

Left most line of bolts. Start on boulders in stream bed and up just right of arete. Crux above small ledge between bolts 6/7. Angle right to double bolt belay. Rap 25m.

Middle line of bolts in wall. Start in stream bed and up bolted crack system. Good holds appear when you need them. Through overlap and up to chains.

Right hand line of bolts.

Go to Twin Cracks wall, walk across the scree below that about halfway up to find the start of the track. Follow this up the bushy gully (NOT the big scree slope) until you are facing a blank wall. This is where the rap descent winds up. Turn left and scramble up the short spur behind you. The bolts on the left at the top are Growly Girl. Climb up the fixed rope to reach the bottom of The Old Bastard. You can then very carefully scramble up right onto the exposed prow then across a sloping shelf to reach the bottom of Javelin and Five Ring Circus (the bolted corner feature). Alternately it seems you can follow a vague track RIGHT from the bottom of the rap descent wall at the gully head to reach fixed ropes, regain the ridge and then traverse left to the bottom of Javelin.