The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain’s theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...

Daves, working from a novel (laid in Blue Ridge Mountain Country) by Earl Hamner Jr, views the Spencers idealistically – the family that pulls together and walks straight. Daves’ script plays ...

The mountain is the third natural feature in New Zealand to be conferred personhood. Read more at straitstimes.com.