Mt. Cook is the highest peak in the Southern Alps. This was the location for the filming the new adventure movie "Vertical Limit".
Viewed
across Lake Pukaki with fresh snow in the morning.
Milford
Sound lies in Fiordlands National Park which covers about 25% of the land
mass of the South Island, It lies at 46 degrees south latitude, near Antarctica.
A Cruise Ship hunts his way through the towering mountains of the fiord, heading to the Tasmanian Sea.
British explorer, Captain Cook, named this "Doubtful Sound" - during the Age of Discovery (1700's.) He said it was "doubtful" he'd ever get his ships out again if he sailed into the Fiord. Declaring it a "Doubtful Harbor," he passed by and never saw this view.
Was there a safe harbor beyond those mountains?
Was it deep enough to enter?
Was it shallow enough to anchor?
Was there sufficient width to turn the ship about?
Were there sufficient winds & currents to sail back out to Sea?
In the days when men were men & boys were boys, these huge ships sometimes had to be towed out by their crew in small rowboats.
