| | | Summit Plateau, Mt Ruapehu |
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| The summit of Ruapehu is surprisingly large, some 2-3km long. The summit plateau sits north of the crater lake. It probably marks a previous crater. The summit of Ngauruhoe, where I was just two days earlier, pokes above the clouds in the distance. |
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