Tongario Alpine Crossing

This track is one of the best NZ's one day walk about 20km in 7-8 hours.
From this trip, the most popular side trip is to Ngauruhoe summit, 3 hours walking.

We started at 6:30 am with a cloudy weather under the rain and crossed our fingers to have a better weather.






























We tried to go on the Ngauruhoe's top but after spending 2 hours under the rain, and didn't see the summmit, we decided to go back. We could do that but not with running shoes, when we did 1 meter up, we did 30cm down, it was too steep we walked on our hands, we couldn't see more than 10 meters, wind was really strong, rain really cold. It was really unsafe to continue.
But we were almost there because we walked on the red part which is almost on the top, next time, with good weather we'll come back to go up and bring the ring on the Mt Doom's top.





























We finished the trip at 1:45pm and did less than 8 hours to do 23 kms.
















Emerald lakes on the way down.

I don't know if it was to walking on the pathh where Frodo was, but at the end of the day, my feet was like hobbit one.