Intense cold, fierce winds and a landscape from Mars were the features of a successful Queens Birthday Weekend trip to the second highest peak in the Seaward Kaikoura Range.
From Puhi Puhi Road we followed the long ridge on the true right of Happy Valley Stream, then attained the summit of Te ao Whekere via its south ridge. On the way back we descended the creek bed in Happy Valley Stream before climbing back up to the ridge on the true right in its lower section.
Party: Endre Gjermundsen, Lara Wilcocks, Danilo Hegg