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5 May 2017
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helpUfindstuff @helpUfindstuff
VIDEO Jaylene Cook stand nude on Mt. Taranaki ! – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gadEi9IucU … – #jaylenecook #mttaranaki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gadEi9IucU
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Playmate Mt Taranaki nude photo deemed disrespectful
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/92158781/playmate-braves-the-cold-for-mt-taranaki-summit-shot
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nzheraldVerified account @nzherald
Her boyfriend also stripped off for the camera, she added.
Playboy Playmate on naked Mt Taranaki photoshoot: ‘It felt amazing … we definitely would do it again’
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Playboy playmate Jaylene Cook, who posed naked for a photo atop Mt Taranaki, has apologised for offending people – but said she would do the same thing again.
The glamour model, who is touring the country with her photographer boyfriend Josh Shaw, posted the photo to Instagram which has attracted more than 9000 likes.
Cook, 25, defended her decision to go nude, saying she and her partner did their research on the history and cultural beliefs around Mt Taranaki before hiking to the summit.
“There was nowhere that we read or were told that it was a bad thing to do, and we believe that it still wasn’t. We see nudity as art and pure and natural,” she told Newstalk ZB‘s Larry Williams.
It was a “last-minute decision” to do the shoot at the top of the mountain.
“By the time we got there we just felt the need to strip off and embrace it.”
Her boyfriend also stripped off for the camera, she added.
“I respect everyone’s views and opinions and I’m sorry that people felt we were being disrespectful – that was never our intention,” she said.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11849547
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The Straits TimesVerified account @STcom 8 hours ago
Playboy model’s nude shoot on sacred New Zealand volcano angers Maori community
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AUCKLAND – A Playboy model has provoked the ire of the local Maori community after she posted a photograph of herself naked near the top of a volcano on social media.
Ms Jaylene Cook, 25, had hiked up Mount Taranaki in New Zealand’s North Island with her partner, photographer Josh Shaw, a few days ago.
Insisting that the photo was “natural and pure”, she said she and Mr Shaw had researched the mountain’s significance beforehand and took care to avoid the summit.
“(The photo) is not crude or explicit in any way”, she told stuff.co.nz.
Mount Taranaki, also named Mount Egmont by the British explorer James Cook, has a summit of 2,518m. The top of the volcano is sacred for the Maori.
The photo, posted on Ms Cook’s Instagram account which has almost 300,000 followers, shows her gazing into the distance, wearing nothing but her shoes, gloves and a snow cap.
The local Maori have called the photo “insensitive” and “very inappropriate”.
Speaking to the BBC, a local Maori tribe spokesman, Mr Dennis Ngawhare, said: “It’s like someone went into St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican and took a nude photo.”
Visitors who climb the mountain are urged to pay respect and avoid the rock at the top of the mountain. It is considered the burial ground of the tribe’s ancestors and the mountain itself is also seen as an ancestor.
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1 Naked at Mt Kinabalu, Sabah: Appeasing the mountain spirits
2 SABAH EARTHQUAKE! 5 June 2015.
3 Sabah Earthquake: Aftermath
NAKED TOURISTS BLAMED FOR EARTHQUAKE
Tourists who took photos of themselves naked on top of Mt Kinabalu in 2015 were also blamed for an earthquake in the area which killed at least 16 people.
The tourists had taken the photos weeks before the earthquake and deputy chief minister of the state of Sabah, where the earthquake occurred, Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan condemned the uncivilised and disrespectful actions.
“It is a sacred mountain and you cannot take it lightly,” Pairin said in a press conference at the time.
“Whether other people believe this or not, it’s what we Sabahans believe. When the earthquake happened, it’s like a confirmation of our beliefs.”
Authorities at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat have no tolerance for people stripping down and foreign visitors have been arrested and deported for taking nude photos at the sacred sites.
The incidents are upsetting to ordinary Cambodians, for whom the Khmer-era complex holds enormous spiritual and historical significance.
– Stuff
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/92158781/playmate-braves-the-cold-for-mt-taranaki-summit-shot
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