Ruapehu: earlier glacial activity (Pleistocene Epoch)

Evening sunlight picks out the detailed form of volcanoes and glacial valleys as seen the Taranaki Falls Track, just east of Whakapaka Village. In the background is the old heavily eroded cone of Mount Tongariro and the new cone of Ngauruhoe. The Mangatepopo Valley, with its half-sunlit lateral moraine, is visible between the two peaks. Running from right to left in the middle distance is a larger moraine created by a glacier that flowed down the northern slope of Ruapehu.

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