Gordon Hasell was the first person who, by 1960, had climbed all New Zealand's peaks above 10,000 feet. The achievement mentions 27 peaks and is thus counts individual peaks that may make up one mountain, e.g. Mount Haast has three individual peaks that are all above that height.[1][2]
Prior to the introduction of the metric system in New Zealand, the mountains regarded as tall were those over 10,000ft (3,000m). Lists of mountains or peaks by height have over the decades been published by the New Zealand government in its official yearbook. The 1920–21 edition was the first to contain a list of mountains and it had six of them at over 10,000 feet.[lower-alpha 10][9]
1920–21 yearbook
Mountain
height (ft)
Cook
12,349
Tasman
11,467
Malte Brun
10,421
Sefton
10,390
Haidinger
10,178
De la Beche
10,058
This table remained the same in the two subsequent editions until 1924, when the secretary of the New Zealand Alpine Club had provided a fuller list of 16 mountains:[10]
In the 1931 yearbook, Torres Peak was added to that list.[11] Andy Anderson was the first to climb all 17 mountains by late December 1950.[12][13]
The 1931 list remained unchanged until the late 1950s, and was used as the starting point by mountaineer Gordon Hasell (1933–2018) to compile an amended list. Not all the mountains had been officially surveyed and Hasell added 12 new ones to the list that he considered likely to also reach the 10,000 feet mark and deleted 2 (De la Beche and The Minarets), making a total of 27 peaks. This list was published in the 1957 edition of the New Zealand Alpine Journal and stood for the next 25 years. It is shown here as published in geographical order from north-east to south-west.[12][14][15]
Hasell's 1957 list († indicating new additions)
Peak
height as published (ft)
West Peak of Elie de Beaumont†
10,027
Elie de Beaumont
10,200
East Minaret
10,058
West Minaret†
10,022
Malte Brun
10,421
Douglas Peak
10,107
Mt. Haidinger, North Peak†
Mt. Haidinger
10,059
Mt. Haast, High Peak†
10,295
Mt. Haast, Middle Peak†
Mt. Haast, West Peak†
Lendenfeld Peak
10,503
Mt. Tasman
11,475
Torres Peak
10,376
Silberhorn
10,757
Mt. Graham†
Mt. Teichelmann
10,368
Mt. Magellan†
Mt. Malaspina†
Mt. Vancouver†
Mt. Dampier
11,287
Mt. Cook, High Peak
12,349
Mt. Cook, Middle Peak†
12,173
Mt. Cook, Low Peak†
11,787
Mt. Hicks
10,443
La Perouse
10,101
Mt. Sefton
10,359
Footnotes
↑ These lists exclude mountains in the Ross Dependency, an area of Antarctica claimed by and administered by New Zealand, though could include the similarly claimed and administered Balleny Islands. These claims are in abeyance, in accord with the Antarctic Treaty. If mountains in the Ross Dependency were included in this list, several notable peaks would appear in the upper part of this list, including Mount Erebus which, at 3,795 metres (12,451ft), would outrank Aoraki / Mount Cook, and the Admiralty Mountains of Victoria Land.
↑ In the absence of a height for the key col, the prominence is estimated from contour lines and presented in italics.
↑ The high peak of Aoraki was 3,764m or 12,349ft high until 14 December 1991, when a massive rock/ice collapse broke off 10m (33ft). Subsequent erosion of the exposed ice cap reduced its height by a further 30m (98ft) as of November 2013.[3]
↑ First ascent dates and parties were mostly extracted from the National Route database at Climb NZ.[4]
1 2 Brodrick Peak and Mount Mannering are equally high summits separated by the 2,400 m Whataroa Saddle (269 m drop)
↑ An unnamed point to the southwest of Maungatere Hill rises to 299m (981ft).
↑ The 1920 edition does not contain a list of mountains.[8]
↑ In subsequent lists, Saint David's Dome is referred to as Mount Hicks
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