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Mount Cook to be extreme-skied this week
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New Zealand's highest (and perhaps toughest) mountain is coming under attack this week as freeskier Todd Windle attempts an unusually dangerous ascent and descent of Mount Cook. The challenge will be filmed from two helicopters.

Windle, a native New Zealander who lives in Chamonix, will climb the 3754m mountain via a route that steepens to grade 5 near the summit - a section which has claimed several lives in the past - and ski from the Low Peak via a ridge to the Empress Hut.

“The line I want to ski is only accessible from the Hooker Valley which is one of the most spectacular valleys in the region,” says Windle.

Here's a report on Todd Windle's plans from scoop.co.nz. The skiing dimensions of Mount Cook, which offers up to 3000m of vertical, are explained in this article from skimountaineer.com.

Here's a profile of Todd Windle from his sponsor. His past survivals have included a head-on smash with a rock in Alaska in 2001, and an escape from an avalanche in New Zealand in 1997. The photo shows him in 'Queenstown backcountry' and is by Miles Holden for Red Bull.
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To update this story, Todd Windle successfully completed the ascent and descent of Mount Cook on Monday 1 November. Here's the news and photos from his sponsor...

...and here's a taste of that report:
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The team which included Axel Naglich (Austria) and Baptiste Blanc (France) climbed to the summit at 2.30am on Monday under the light of a rising full moon. The final climb took eight hours and the team descended from the West Ridge into the North West Couloir of Mt Cook at 11.45am Monday morning.

“It was unreal once we hit the top. Looking out over Caroline Face the adrenalin started pumping. It was really intense at the top as we were exposed to the South Face which is incredibly intimidating," says Windle. “We were very lucky with the weather although spring conditions meant ice breaks throughout the glacier.”
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