On the 19th of February 2013 the year 8's had to fight a grueling 4 hours until the top of the Tongiriro crossing. We started of walking 4 km to the start of the climb so if people thought this was hard they had another coming. Just walking down that first serge to the mountain we came across a lot of beautiful scenery like soda springs with the waterfall and looking at the different colours of rock on Mt Ngarahpoe.We all stopped to have a break just before devils staircase. We were lucky to have Sarah Cate leading the way at the front of the pack up Devils staircase letting us stop just to get a drink but it got a bit annoying after a while for those faster guys. At the top of the south crater we did a huge haka which was fantastic.
We kept on walking through the boiling rock until we had some lunch at the other end of the crater. As we thought we had done the hard bit we looked at the next stage of the mountain. On a hands and knee's crawling ourselves up like centipede's. As we started to emerge to the top I was getting a lot happier for some reason hhhmmm!! The first thing I did when I got to the top I gave my dad a huge hug then gasped in all the air on the top of the mountain, over looking the hills.
On our way down it was like we were at a skate park doing tricks of all the rocks until we finally go back down to the south crater to do another haka. We were told to put our hearts and souls into it and that's exactly what we did, at one point I thought the volcano was going to erupt. Some of the guys starting jogging down to the bottom, at the end we were all aloud to dip our heads into the water, ffrreezziinngg but lovely! I felt so proud to complete the Tongiriro crossing because I thought it was a once in a lifetime experience!!
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