Talk:Mount Ruapehu

Portrayal in Cinema statements
2007 (UTC)
 * Please provide sources for the statements you added to Mount Ruapehu and Mount Ngauruhoe. Thanks. RedWolf 15:32, 19 March
 * I did. I provided a link to Mount Doom, which redirects to Orodruin, which in turn contains the entry

Film representations
In Peter Jackson's film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Mount Doom was represented by Mount Ngauruhoe and Mount Ruapehu, both active volcanoes in New Zealand. In long shots the mountain is either a large model or a CGI effect, or a combination. It was not permitted to film the summit of Ngauruhoe because it is sacred to Māori of the region. However, some scenes on the slopes of Mount Doom were filmed on the slopes of another nearby volcano, Mount Ruapehu.

Lee 06:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)


 * But the new Trivia entry reads better. :) Lee 06:49, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Accidents on Ruapehu
I remember some time ago (in ~1990's), a group of Soldiers got into difficulty on Ruapehu and a number died. In the same blizzard a Japanese climber survived a week in a snow cave. If details of this event can be found it may be worth adding --Zven 19:34, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

In addition to that, there was an aeroplane crash in 1948 where 13 people died. Should it go as far as people who have died from skiing/snowboard accidents? I can think of several patrollers that have died along with memorials they've got around the mountain and also, for example, in the 2008 winter season a woman snowboarding fell down a waterfall hole. Bloo (talk) 00:30, 25 December 2008 (UTC)


 * The 1990 army training incident is already mentioned in the Weather section. We cover the aeroplane crash elsewhere, but it might be worth at least a link here. The skiing/snowboarding hazards and deaths would probably be better dealt with in the Ski fields section. -- Avenue (talk) 05:50, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Made some major changes
So, because I'd love to see Ruapehu as a featured article (there's no reason why New Zealand can't have its volcanoes featured!), I've begun a serious expansion of the article using other featured volcano articles as reference. So far I've made the following changes:


 * Added a Geology section with massive amounts of new material and incorporated the previous Volcanic Activity section into it
 * Deleted unsourced and unverifiable information from the 1995-96 eruption section. I searched and searched for sources but found nothing so I deleted it.
 * Deleted most of the information that was in the "Warnings post-2007" section as it read like a newsfeed and not like an encyclopedia article. The purpose of this article isn't to function as an aggregation site for Geonet's volcanic alerts, but that seems to be all this section was being used for, so I've summarised the actual geologic information into the new main "Geology" section and the new "Current activity and future hazards" subsection and deleted stuff that was really just a diary of Geonet alerts.

Please feel free to expand on what I've added or don't hesitate to get in touch if you want to discuss any of it or think I went too far on the deletions. I plan to expand this article even further in line with featured volcano articles, so you'll see more big additions from me in the future. If you're planning big changes of your own, please let me know so we don't end up overwriting each other's additions.

Sections still to be added:
 * Geography (Size, volume (volcano and ring plain), location, relation to Tongariro National Park, craters, glaciers, river valleys and river systems, lahars, climate)
 * Ecology (of the mountain and surrounding ring plain)
 * Human history (Maori importance and mythology, early European exploration and land use, Tangawai disaster, protection, military use of ring plain)
 * Recreation (Recreational use of the mountain. Ski fields, climbing, around the mountain track, early European use of Crater Lake, role as film location)

Cheers

Ddaveonz (talk) 01:18, 17 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Update: Second major expansion of the article with the addition of a Geography section. I've incorporated and expanded on the material from the previous "Weather", "Climate", and "Glaciers" sections, with citations from scientific journals where possible.


 * Progress thus far:
 * Geography (completed)
 * Geology (completed)
 * Ecology (still to do)
 * Human history (still to do)
 * Recreation (still to do)
 * Ddaveonz (talk) 02:11, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

First Ascent
Should the first ascent by Europeans not be listed as such, rather than simply 'first ascent'. Maori inhabited the country for hundreds of years prior to European arrival, and it's entirely possible that it was scaled before European arrival. Yogidude (talk) 03:11, 5 September 2022 (UTC)