New Zealand’s oldest national park and a dual World Heritage Site. The Tongariro National Park is rich in both cultural identity and dramatic, awe-inspiring natural scenery. The Tongariro Alpine Crossing in Tongariro National Park is described as one of the best one-day hikes in New Zealand. The Tongariro trek will takes you from alpine meadows to mountain summit with stunning volcanic features along the way, you will walk across a lunar landscape of craters, scattered pumice, active volcanoes, mountain springs, lava flows, emerald lakes, piles of scoria and statue-like mounds of volcanic desert.

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The Cornettes de Bise is a mountain in the Chablais Alps, overlooking Lake Geneva. At 2,432 metres above sea level, it is the highest summit of the subrange running from Pas de Morgins to Lake Geneva. The mountain is located on the border between France and Switzerland. It is one of the most beautiful and highest summits of the French Chablais range. Cornettes de Bise could be translated as something like “horns of the north wind”.

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Rawson Lake is an incredibly beautiful, jade, alpine lake buried in the mountains above the south side of Upper Kananaskis Lake in the shadow of 10,414 ft, (3,174 m) Mount Sarrail. It is located approximately 160km south west of the city of Calgary in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park Kananaskis Country. You can get some amazing photos of the entire length and breadth of Rawson Lake. If the Mountains surrounding the lake are covered in snow do not continue to hike around the lake because there is a risk of avalanches.

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Beautiful Brasstown Bald, rising 4,784 feet above sea level, is Georgia’s highest mountain. Hike a steep half mile from the parking lot to the top of the mountain, where there’s an observation deck and visitors center. 360-degree view from atop the mountain allows you to see four states, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Brasstown Bald was so named because of confusion between the Cherokee words itse-yi, meaning “new green place,” and untsaiyi, meaning “brass”. It is located in the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, and it is a great place to visit and bring family.

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