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😳 Amazing

Nice shot.

I'll never forget seeing a purple sunrise over Mt Taranaki from a tuna fishing boat in the tasman sea. One of the most beautiful moments I've witnessed.

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This is an interesting photo because there’s no sense of scale. Is this a 10,000 foot mountain on a crystal clear day or a 500 foot cinder cone? Could be either in my mind.

Nice try, Smaug... I know the lonely mountain when I see it

Did anyone else read it as Mr. Taramaki

Is this the paramount pictures logo?

It's a 2500m (8200ft) mountain, but this picture is only showing the top half because of where it is taken from.

It's a beautiful place - I used to hike there a lot when I was in high school. This tarn was a spot I always loved getting to first thing in the morning because it would be frozen over.

https://flic.kr/p/2PWsC

New Zealand feels like a cheat code for this sub.. Hope to get back there again..

That’s the Kingdom of Erebor

New Zealand really is Middle Earth.

Looks very much like my home mountain, Mt. Hood

Naked Mount Fuji

Both are stratovolcanoes, and because of that, share very similar features!

Many of the most dangerous volcanic mountains are stratovolcanoes (also known as composite volcanoes).

This includes Mt Taranaki as pictured above, but also Mt Rainier, Hood, St Helens in the US; Mt Fuji of Japan; Vesuvius, Etna, and Stromboli of Italy; And of course, many more!

My graduate degree focus is on stratovolcanic structure and I absolutely adore them

Looks like a pimple on the island

This IS how i imaginé the pyramids looked like a Long time ago

It's used as a substitute for it in movies shot here supposedly.

Taranaki always makes me think of Flight of the Conchords. Beautiful picture.

Well you know NZ can be proud about mountains and volcanoes and naturally they are part of Maori mythology and so this isn't called Mt Egmont any more.

I seem to remember this volcano got used as a stand-in for Mt Fuji in that Tom Cruise movie. Fuji obviously being really important in Japanese religion.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that mountains are awesome.

I first learned the word tarn from The Fall of the House of Usher.

From the U.S. Natonal Park Service:

"Cirques are bowl-shaped, amphitheater-like depressions that glaciers carve into mountains and valley sidewalls at high elevations. Often, the glaciers flow up and over the lip of the cirque as gravity drives them downslope. Lakes (called tarns) often occupy these depressions once the glaciers retreat."

Never would've guessed 2500m. It looked like hill I could sprint up on a minute

I was there yesterday and took a much worse photo. https://i.imgur.com/ftHQUbd.jpg

This place really is beautiful.

Cool photo but looks heavily edited

The last samurai. Bang on.

Nice! You stay at Pouakai hut?

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Excellent shot. I climbed it a few years ago. Absolutely stunning place.

Yeah I think that type of volcano isn't that common.

Mt Taranaki played Mt Fuji in Tom Cruise's Last Samurai.

That's because when the park was created it was defined as a radius from the peak, so all the farmers cleared up to that radius to make a circle that can be seen from space.

When you write your pepeha one of the first few lines is which mountain you belong to. That's how important they are.

Fuji looks pretty similar during the summer, too.

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This is absolutely gorgeous. Such an awesome picture!

I am not sure what mountain I belong to and that is fucking me up right now.

Beautiful, really peaks my interest

A deceptively tricky shot to get sans clouds and wind.

I got super lucky with the weather/wind! It was first time up there, hoping to do Syme hut this year!

Thanks!

I was very lucky, first time up.

Thats not uncommon. Many of us got cut off from our culture over the years and we are currently living in a time of reconnection and rediscovery. When I needed to write my pepeha I didn't know my mountain either so I thought a bit and chose one that I felt close to. It ended up being the same mountain as mum picked.

I went back for some stargazing, and sunrise. It was beautiful and completely different each time!

Beautiful shot ! We so wanted to make it down there.... but that was before we realized HOW FUCKING HUGE New Zealand actually is. Looking at it on a map we were like.... "Yeah we'll do Hobbiton and then drive down to Egmont" ......like it was a short Sunday drive. After driving around the South Island for a few weeks we actually investigated the drive time of our proposed schedule and realized the foibles of our plans. We do hope to get there someday still.

This is the most volcano looking volcano.

It really is.

I am going to say Ruapehu. But i love the bays around Banks peninsula (Horomaka?)

Is this a joke to you?

That could be the Lonely Mountain at the edge of Long Lake …

Amazing

Look at that mountain. It looks like Mount Fuji, but it's not. It's Mount Taranaki.

My home mountain, love living under his shadow

That is an incredible photo