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'''Mount Aspiring''' is [[New Zealand]]'s highest mountain outside the [[Mount Cook]] region.

Set within the [[South Island]]'s [[Mount Aspiring National Park]], it has a height of 3,033 metres.  [[Māori]] named it ''Tititea'', which translates as ''Glistening Peak''. It is also often called 'the Matterhorn of [[Southern Hemisphere|the South]],' for its pyramidal peak when seen from the [[Dart River, New Zealand|Dart River]]. It was first climbed in 1909 by Major Bernard Head.

Mt Aspiring sits slightly to the west of the main divide at the junction of three major glacial systems — the [[Bonar Glacier]], which drains into the [[Waipara River]], and the [[Volta Glacier|Volta]] and [[Therma Glacier]]s, which both drain into the [[Waitoto River]]. The Waipara is a tributary of the [[Arawhata River]], and both the Arawhata and Waitoto Rivers flow out to the west coast in between [[Haast, New Zealand|Haast]] and [[Jackson Bay]]. 

== Getting there ==

The peak is usually accessed via the West Matukituki Valley, which is reached by a 50-kilometre road from Wanaka to a trailhead at Raspberry Flat. From here a network of huts provide staging points for climbers. The first is Mt Aspiring Hut, which is 8 kilometres (or approximately two hours' walk) from the trailhead.

You can fly over Mount Aspiring by doing a Scenic flight with [[Glenorchy Air]].

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==See also==
* [[List of mountains of New Zealand by height]]

== References ==

<small>This article uses material from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Aspiring Wikipedia, "Mount Aspiring"] 

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