Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Aoraki Mt Cook and Lake Pukaki from Peter's Lookout
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Aoraki Mt Cook from White Horse Hill Campsite (DoC)
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Mt Sefton (3151m), Tuckett Col and The Footstool (2662m) from bottom of Sealy Tarns track
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Hooker Valley and Aoraki Mt Cook from Sealy Tarns track
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Lakes have replaced former glaciers - Mueller Lake (front) and Hooker Lake from Sealy Tarns track
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Aoraki Mt Cook from Sealy Tarns
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Sealy Tarns and The Footstool
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
At Sealy Tarns - this substantial table has replaced a simple bench seat that was here a few years ago (great view still!)
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
The dreaded stairs end at Sealy Tarns - from here an obvious (and marked) route heads up to the tops
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Sefton Bivvy from Sealy Tarns. Sefton Bivvy is the oldest hut in Aoraki Mt Cook National Park
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Red Tarns and Sebastopol from the Sealy Tarns
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Close up of Aoraki Mt Cook from just above Sealy Tarns
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Hooker Valley and Aoraki Mt Cook
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Ball Pass (2121m) and the Playing Field are on the left (just above the lowest snow chute - this is the gully you traverse when undertaking the Ball Pass crossing.
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Another one of the Sealy Tarns, overlooking the foot of the Mt Cook Range with the Tasman Valley behind
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Climbing up from Sealy Tarns
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Mueller Lake, White Horse Hill (and camp) below the Mt Cook Range
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
The Footstool and Aoraki Mt Cook from the small boulder field just below the top of the Mueller Hut route.
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Aoraki Mt Cook and the Hooker Valley from the en-route boulder field.
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
The final climb from the small boulder field is probably the worst of the climb - a bit steeper with fine scree (fine in good summer conditions though)
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Small avalanche below Mt Sefton
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
The view over Aoraki Mt Cook from the ridge - hard to beat!
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Sefton Bivvy from ridge, with Tewaewae Glacier to the left
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
The White Horse Hill carpark - pretty busy at this time and year (and most other times as well!)
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Wide angle shot capturing Aoraki Mt Cook through to Mt Wakefield and the Mt Cook Range
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Sefton, Footstool and Aoraki Mt Cook from the ridge lookout
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Mueller Hut with Mt Ollivier behind
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
The fifth Mueller Hut (built in 2003) and opened by Sir Edmund Hillary (Sir Ed's first 'peak' was Mt Ollivier, the pile of rock behind this hut! There has been a hut in this area since 1914.
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Annette Plateau beyond Mueller Hut
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Mt Cook Range dividing the Hooker from the Tasman, from Mt Ollivier (1933m)
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Mt Sefton from summit of Mt Ollivier
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Wide angle view from Mt Ollivier
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Sefton, Footstool and Cook, with Mueller hut below (from Mt Ollivier)
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
View of Sefton as you leave Mueller Hut
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
The ridge travese from Mueller around to where trhe route descends to Sealy Tarns
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Mt Cook Range from ridge, just as you drop down towards Sealy Tarns
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
View at Sealy Tarns in the afternoon sun
Mueller Hut - Mt Ollivier Day Trip
Although the stairs below Sealy Tarns are not well liked, they are an impressive piece of engineering.
