electronically dispatched 28th May 2013
About this time back in 2010 I put in a bid to Mark the Hillary Conquest of Everest with place names on Mount Cook
But it got lost in the media backwaters. Basically some of us would have liked to change what is known as High Peak of Mt Cook to Hillary Peak.
And as homage to Maori history, rename the Mount Cook Range the Aoraki Range into the Bargain.. The whole thing came unglued when Hillary Ridge got Gazetted
So now there is no big event for the Big 60th.
However they took a look at the Aoraki Range suggestion and replaced it with the tongue twisting Kirikirikatata range and that was gazetted in April as a duel name this year. So Hillary did have some effect on the summit of Mount Cook albeit through Ngai tahu’s back door...
The media was a bit busy with my Tolkien Mountain Geographic Board saga then so probably couldn’t cope with more than one story at a time.
I still think that it would have been easy to replace the three purely descriptive names on Mount Cook’s Summit like so: Low Peak to Lowe Peak, Middle Peak with Mallory Peak and High Peak with Hillary.... It would have been good to slip Tenzing in too somewhere on a feature...
Too bad it would have made a great 60th anniversary moment But then the Geographic Board members are not selected for theatrics... ?
About this time back in 2010 I put in a bid to Mark the Hillary Conquest of Everest with place names on Mount Cook
But it got lost in the media backwaters. Basically some of us would have liked to change what is known as High Peak of Mt Cook to Hillary Peak.
And as homage to Maori history, rename the Mount Cook Range the Aoraki Range into the Bargain.. The whole thing came unglued when Hillary Ridge got Gazetted
So now there is no big event for the Big 60th.
However they took a look at the Aoraki Range suggestion and replaced it with the tongue twisting Kirikirikatata range and that was gazetted in April as a duel name this year. So Hillary did have some effect on the summit of Mount Cook albeit through Ngai tahu’s back door...
The media was a bit busy with my Tolkien Mountain Geographic Board saga then so probably couldn’t cope with more than one story at a time.
I still think that it would have been easy to replace the three purely descriptive names on Mount Cook’s Summit like so: Low Peak to Lowe Peak, Middle Peak with Mallory Peak and High Peak with Hillary.... It would have been good to slip Tenzing in too somewhere on a feature...
Too bad it would have made a great 60th anniversary moment But then the Geographic Board members are not selected for theatrics... ?
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