Mount Aspiring / Tititea

And I'm absolutely loving it, actually.

I climbed the Matterhorn of the Southern Hemisphere, which is... a beautiful peak called Mount Aspiring.

It's in the South Island of New Zealand.

And I climbed it with my son.

He's Steph, I'm Staff.

Craig Stephenson, good man Mount Aspiring, no. Kurau, home of Sir Richie, no.

Have you been to Kaponga? Yes, I have.

Oh, Jacob's just ...

We've got a, uh, if we've got time, uh, we're gonna what if you later on in the show.

Uh, there are so many guesses and some are quite close.

Mount Aspiring, no.

Can I just say, Steph and I have been chatting in the ad break about where this location is, and I can't lie, he's confused the absolute you know what out of me.

And

is it in Mount Aspiring National Park or is it in its own kind of wilderness area?

Yeah, it's the top of it is in the I think the bottom is in Aspiring National Park and the top is in the Adams Landsborough Wilderness Area.

Yeah.

Now I love learning new things.

I am talking about having paddles and ice axes.

I, this is probably maybe one of my favorite expeditions that I've had on the podcast, but, um, another guy, Nick Pascoe, he, they climbed Mount Aspiring.

So, and then they skied a bit and then they pack rafter down the way of Toto.