Also planning to go up Mt Taranaki today, weather permitting, is the Taranaki Alpine Club with its Open Climb 2012.

Callander said climbing Mt Taranaki takes “experience, knowledge, and properly fitted and correct equipment”. “Even the most experienced people can get caught up in situations where they ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred ...

First a sacred forest, then a river, and now a mountain. Mount Taranaki, a towering 8,261-foot stratovolcano popular among skiers and snowboarders, was recognized as a legal person in New Zealand ...