Word: ruapehu
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...love affair with mountains began at age 16, when, on a school excursion, Hillary sighted Mount Ruapehu, a 2,797-m active volcano. "There was snow everywhere," he recalled over 50 years later. "It was a bright moonlit night, a brilliant, marvelous sight to me." Hillary dropped out of law school to work with his father, a beekeeper. But he skied whenever he could, hiked in the hills, and steadily improved his climbing skills...
...used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday. I think we must have had a good honey session that year, because I was able to persuade my father to let me go on this particular trip. We went down to Ruapehu, and I can remember it just as clearly as when it happened. Our train from Auckland arrived at the National Park station and there was snow everywhere, there was snow on the railroad line and there was snow on the trees. It was a bright moonlit night, and the moonlight...
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