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Please provide sources for the statements you added to Mount Ruapehu and Mount Ngauruhoe. Thanks. RedWolf 15:32, 19 March
2007 (UTC)
I did. I provided a link to Mount Doom, which redirects to Orodruin, which in turn contains the entry
Film representations
In Peter Jackson's film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Mount Doom was represented by Mount Ngauruhoe and Mount Ruapehu, both active volcanoes in New Zealand. In long shots the mountain is either a large model or a CGI effect, or a combination. It was not permitted to film the summit of Ngauruhoe because it is sacred to Māori of the region. However, some scenes on the slopes of Mount Doom were filmed on the slopes of another nearby volcano, Mount Ruapehu.
I remember some time ago (in ~1990's) , a group of Soldiers got into difficulty on Ruapehu and a number died. In the same blizzard a Japanese climber survived a week in a snow cave. If details of this event can be found it may be worth adding --Zven19:34, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
In addition to that, there was an aeroplane crash in 1948 where 13 people died. Should it go as far as people who have died from skiing/snowboard accidents? I can think of several patrollers that have died along with memorials they've got around the mountain and also, for example, in the 2008 winter season a woman snowboarding fell down a waterfall hole. Bloo (talk) 00:30, 25 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The 1990 army training incident is already mentioned in the Weather section. We cover the aeroplane crash elsewhere, but it might be worth at least a link here. The skiing/snowboarding hazards and deaths would probably be better dealt with in the Ski fields section. -- Avenue (talk) 05:50, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
