Mount Cook Visitors Hit 1 million

Each year a number of visitors have gone to see Aoraki, or as people like to call it, Mount Cook. This is the first time the visiting numbers have gone over 1 million. Eugenie Sage, the conservation minister, announced the record just last week.

Since 2010 the department of conservation has spent $16.5 million on making tracks, road repairing, building more toilets and creating a new visiting center.