It's a Christmas wonderland with snow-covered pine trees everywhere. This is also avalanche country. Normally a risk of avalanche is graded 1 to 5 but they've graded the road here 13! They monitor the mountain snow and ice carefully and if an avalanche looks imminent they'll close the road and blast it off the mountain. The Southern Alps that cover the South Island were created by the two tectonic plates grinding against each other and throwing up these enormous peaks.
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