A 1991 landslide on the same mountain reduced its height by 10m: http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2014/01/16/aoraki-mount-cook/
I heard a second- or third-hand story that this event was so big that electrical discharges from the sliding rocks lit up the mountain for an hour afterwards.
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