There are no approved helicopter landing sites in the river valley, but there are chamois, tahr and small numbers of red deer available to hunters. Peter
Mount Cook, in summer Statue of the Himalayan Tahr, introduced to New Zealand in 1904 Plaque providing details about the introduction of the tahr Aerial
Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park in December 1904. In 1909 another eight tahr were released in the same area, and the population increased. Tahr cause damage
the Hermitage Hotel at Mount Cook Village. He sent a further shipment in 1909 of six males and two females. Himalayan tahr are near-threatened in their