VIDEO: Large NZ Glacier Collapses and Sends Enormous Avalanche of Ice & Rock Down Mountain

This impressive video shows the moment when a natural rockfall triggers a huge block of ice to begin tumbling, smashing into thousands of pieces and causing

This impressive video shows the moment when a natural rockfall triggers a huge block of ice to begin tumbling, smashing into thousands of pieces and causing a large ice and rock avalanche in Mt. Cook National Park, New Zealand on November 9th, 2015.
The exact location is Whymper Saddle pass in Mt. Cook National Park.Mt. Cook is the tallest mountain in New Zealand at over 12,000-feet and is where Sir Edmund Hillary honed the skills necessary to be the first ever to climb 29,028-foot Mt. Everest.

40% of Mt. Cook National Park is covered by glaciers.  707-square-kilometers of the park is coverd by glaciers.