Mt Ngauruhoe, Tongariro National Park, Aotearoa New Zealand

Climbing a mountain in summer reveals everything the winter snow would otherwise conceal: its colours, fissures and raw volcanic surface. The higher we climbed, the more electric green appeared in the valleys below.

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GEOLOGICAL PROFILE: A young andesitic stratovolcano within the Tongariro volcanic complex.

DATA SET USED: 1m Digital Elevation Models (LINZ LiDAR datasets)