Here is a piece of New Zealand ski history gold!

“For one who has climbed the famous 29, 000 and 2 feet, Ruapehu must seem rather pint-sized. More like a footstool than like something in need of a chairlift.”
In the 1950’s Sir Edmund Hillary opened Mt Ruapehu’s first chairlift, much to the bewilderment of the narrator of this video!

Things have come a long way since then, and with this week’s snowfalls more new fancy lifts   should start turning as Whakapapa and Turoa look to open more terrain.

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