A broken pile of schist is all that remains of a Tor that once stood here. The tops of these mountains are slowy being eroded...

Sitting at around five thousand seven hundred feet, the top of the Old Woman range is eroded to a flat moonscape of exposed schist and low alpine plants.

Photo ID: new-zealand-mountains-20

Photo size: 36.2 Mpixels (103 MB uncompressed) - 7360x4912 pixels (24.5x16.3 in / 62.3x41.6 cm at 300 ppi)

Photo keywords: alpine plants, central otago, central otago high country, high country, mountains, new zealand backcountry, new zealand mountains, rock formations, schist tors