Kiwi On The Loose

In some ways I should feel shame as a kiwi never having seen Mount Cook or in fact never having been to the South Island full stop, but I don’t.

You can’t do everything in your life and the years roll by awful fast when you get wonderfully tied up making a home, try’n to have a career, be a good husband, pay the bank back and be the best parent you can be despite the limitation of being who you are. It ain’t always easy folks, and then you look back and are ready to really do the job and 23 years have passed…..booof just like that!

Mountains offer a perspective all of their own. I was once fascinated by how many great people in history climbed mountains, or high hills. A mountain don’t have to have snow on it or mean you need breathing apparatus, its just something thats higher than you. Just like the obstacles in our lives………….but I digress.

When I first flew in a plane I was mesmerised by the fact that the sun was always above the clouds, and how above the clouds seemed like a whole new world. Thats where I wanted to live.

I wanted to live on the earth with an above the clouds perspective or mindset.

So here I sit, on top of Mount Evans, higher than the majority of kiwis at that moment in time………………(except those in Nepal or The Andes doing something crazy) and I wonder how high Mt Cook is compared to this.

I am approximately 2000ft higher than Mt Cook and 5 thousand feet higher than my previous Rocky Mountain exploits.

The new perspective it offered from that mountain top was on myself, and its always good to see yourself differently and feel like you are stretching your boundaries. (that’s not a term for putting on weight LOL), I realised the exhilaration of living differently, and in living differently experience wonderful things, like the clouds up here, the mountain wildflowers and pasture, the mountain sheep, breathing the thin mountain air, being surrounded by granite, looking out over the ranges distant, touching the green as grass on mountain meadow, knowing that the mountains are His.

Its good for your soul to get as high on the earth as you can sometimes and look out and feel the thrill of being there and grow in some small way, and go back down to the real world somehow different.

So Mt Cook /Aoraki is 12,316 ft high (3754m) and I have never been there and in all honesty wont ever stand on its top.

Mt Evans is 14, 258 ft high and there is a road to the top then a short walk/pilgrimage to the peak. I was there

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