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ENJOY THIS INQUIRY PAGE Mount Ruapehu over looks Turangi and and the other mountains beside it .People every year go to Mount Ruapehu to ski ,snowboard and just to see the mountain.The mountain is known all over New Zealand. Mount Ruapehu has heaps of features like the big disaster in 2007 that killed 2 people because of smoke and rocks. William Pike a 22 year old teacher got injured when he was standing by the crater in the dome shelter .The rock went crashing into the dome shelter and landed on his legs.The eruption was also accompained by a 7 minute long earth quake that injured 23 people. On saturday July the 26 10:30pm some skiers and staff got trapped up the mountain when a big storm hit. It eventually opened again at 3 o clock in the morning. In 1953 the volcano also caused the Tangiwai disaster when a lahar came dribbling down the mountain. Big rushing water washed a train bride away, taking a train with it and killing 171 people and injuring 209 people. Next to Mount Ruapehu lies big fields of long grass where rabbits and other pestes run for miles.To get to Mount Ruapehu it's a very windy road's but it's worth it. TONGARARIO facts.