Mount Hicks (New Zealand)
Appearance
Mount Hicks | |
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Saint David's Dome | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 3,216 m (10,551 ft) |
Prominence | 56 m (184 ft) |
Parent peak | Mount Dampier |
Isolation | 0.9 km (0.56 mi) |
Coordinates | 43°35′16″S 170°07′44″E / 43.587734°S 170.12882°E[1] |
Geography | |
Parent range | Southern Alps |
Climbing | |
First ascent | February 9, 1906 by Newton, Low und Alec Graham[2] |
Mount Hicks (also known as Saint David's Dome) is a mountain in the Southern Alps in Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park on the South Island of New Zealand. The mountain is 3,216 metres (10,551 ft) high. It is above the Hooker Glacier, in the vicinity of Aoraki / Mount Cook.
The mountain was first ascended in 1906.[2] The starting point for ascents is the Empress hut. From the south face of Mount Hicks there are several possible routes, including the Dingle-Button route.[3]
Notes
- ^ "Mount Hicks, New Zealand". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2015-01-10.
- ^ a b Bob McKerrow (2009-07-02). "The Official Ebenezer Teichelmann Blog". Retrieved 2010-03-28.
- ^ Neil Wood (December 2003). "Dingle-Button Route on Mt Hicks". mountainz.co.nz. Archived from the original on 26 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
External links
- Collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, ed. (1895). "Mount Cook from Fitzgerald's Saddle.jpg". Retrieved 2010-03-28. Image of Mount Hicks and Mount Cook, Mount Hicks is to the left of the middle in the background