The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 10, Issue 3 (June 1, 1935)
Postal Shoping
Postal Shoping
page breakMt. Cook (12,349 ft.), the Monarch of the Southern Alps, South Island, New Zealand.
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What Emerson called “The frolic architecture of the snow” is responsible for some of the most beautiful scenes that greet the seeker after health in the mountains. In the above view we look out on Mt. Cook (the above picture is taken just behind the Hermitage) from a leafy bower that has been draped overnight so as to become a home for Santa Claus. It has been said that the finest of scenery can be seen from the Hermitage door. So all-comers, in whatever degree athletic or unathletie, have here their Mecca.
“Above me are the Alps,
The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls
Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps,
And thron'd Eternity in icy halls
Of cold sublimity, where falls and falls
The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow!”
—Byeon.