Editing Mount Ngauruhoe (section)

== Film appearances ==
In 1974, as part of a promotional campaign for his sponsor [[Moët & Chandon]], champion skier [[Jean-Claude Killy]] was filmed skiing down the previously unskied eastern slope of the mountain. The average slope on this side of the volcano is 35 degrees, and Killy was caught on radar skiing more than {{convert|100|mph|abbr=off}}. As he fell on the first run, he did the descent twice. He used helicopters to access the mountain top when the last eruption had been the day before and an eruption occurred at the end of his final run.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=5 June 2022|date=26 November 2010|publisher=Skitheworld.com|title=Outskiing a Volcano|url=https://skitheworld.com/2010/11/outskiing-a-volcano/}}</ref>

Mount Ngauruhoe was used as a stand-in for the fictional [[Mount Doom]] in [[Peter Jackson]]'s [[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy]], achieving worldwide exposure.<ref>[[Brian Sibley|Sibley, Brian]]. ''The Making of the Movie Trilogy The Lord of the Rings'', [[Houghton Mifflin]] (2002).</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.gns.cri.nz/Home/Learning/Science-Topics/Volcanoes/New-Zealand-Volcanoes/Ngauruhoe |title=Ngauruhoe |author=GNS Science |author-link=GNS Science |date=25 March 2015}}</ref>