Seven Summits VC – Mount Kosciuszko
Our Seven Summits Virtual Challenge starts today, Fri 1 May 2020.
We kick off with our ‘warm-up’ summit – Mount Kosciuszko. Australia’s highest mountain at 2,228 metres above sea level. It is located on the Main Range of the Snowy Mountains in Kosciuszko National Park – west of Crackenback and close to Jindabyne.
Polish explorer Count Pawel Edmund Strzelecki, famous for his exploration of Australia, named Mount Kosciuszko in 1840 in honour of the Polish hero General Tadeusz Kosciuszko. After his death in 1817, Kosciuszko was hailed not only as a Polish patriot but also as a great American and a true citizen of the world.
Fun Facts
| It is ranked 71st in the world for its height. Almost exactly a quarter the height of Mt Everest. |
| The locals know it as ‘Kozzy’. |
| It is the coldest part of Australia, and is covered in snow for months between June and October. |
| The mountain has many rare species of alpine plants, animals, and endemic flowers, which are not found anywhere else in the world. |
| There are also many aboriginal names for this mountain like, ‘tar gan gil’, ‘jagungal’, etc., which translate into ‘table top mountain’. |
Kosciuszko Trivia
The park is also home to [XX] percent of the bird species in New South Wales? Answers posted to 7-Summits VC facebook page.
Week 1 Wildcard Challenge
Post a pic on our 7-Summits VC facebook page of you/your family scaling a peak.
