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Kōrero: Mountaineering

South Island peaks

  • Mt Hicks

    Height: 3,216m

    First ascent: January 1906

    By: Alec Graham, R. S. Lowe , Henry Newton, Ebenezer Teichelmann

  • Mt Tasman

    Height: 3,497m

    First ascent: 5 February 1895

    By: Jack Clarke, Edward Fitzgerald, Mattias Zurbriggen

  • Mt Sefton

    Height: 3,151m

    First ascent: 14 February 1895

    By: Edward Fitzgerald, Mattias Zurbriggen

  • Malte Brun

    Height: 3,199m

    First ascent: 7 March 1894

    By: Tom Fyfe

  • Aoraki/Mt Cook

    Height: 3,754m

    First ascent: 25 December 1894

    By: Jack Clarke, Tom Fyfe, George Graham

  • Mt Aspiring

    Height: 3,033m

    First ascent: 23 November 1909

    By: Jack Clarke, Alec Graham, Bernard Head

  • Mt D’Archiac

    Height: 2,875m

    First ascent: 12 March 1910

    By: Jack Clarke, Jim Dennistoun, Lawrence Earle

  • Mt Earnslaw

    Height: 2,820m

    First ascent: 16 March 1890

    By: Harry Birley

  • Mt Arrowsmith

    Height: 2,781m

    First ascent: February 1912

    By: Jim Murphy, Frank Wright

  • Mt Tutoko

    Height: 2,723m

    First ascent: February 1924

    By: Peter Graham, Samuel Turner

  • Mt Whitcombe

    Height: 2,650m

    First ascent: 28 December 1931

    By: Roger Chester, Bill Mirams, Alan Willis

  • Mt Evans

    Height: 2,620m

    First ascent: January 1933

    By: Gavin Malcolmson, John Pascoe, Priestley Thomson

  • Mt Rolleston

    Height: 2,275m

    First ascent: 1912

    By: I. Gilligan, H. Thomson

  • Sabre Peak

    Height: 2,149m

    First ascent: 27 December 1954

    By: Bill Gordon, Dal Ryan, Bryce Wood

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Roll over the labels on the map to display the heights of the major peaks in the Southern Alps, the dates of their first ascents, and the names of the mountaineers who made them.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Source: Hugh Logan, Great peaks of New Zealand. Dunedin: John McIndoe, 1990

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

John Wilson, Mountaineering – Beyond the central Southern Alps, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/interactive/10493/south-island-peaks (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā John Wilson, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 February 2017.