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Pinnacle

OPEN: Access is subject to conditions.
Updated 24 December 2025, by Richard Thomson.

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Type
Mountain
Altitude
2720m
Part of
Inland Kaikōura Range
External links
Hodder Huts access information
Lat/lon
-41.985143,173.661833, NZ Topo Map
Approach

Pinnacle is usually accessed from the Hodder River. See external link.

Accessed from
Hodder River

Routes

Reference Title Grade Length Pro Quality Alert Operations
 North West Face, 2- 2- 0m
0

From near the Hodder/Staircase junction climb the spur and then slopes onto the north ridge. Follow ridge, sidling on the west if necessary, to the top. Alternatively, from further up Staircase Stream, climb a gully to the col just south of Pinnacle, then traverse western slopes to a small rock rib which leads to the top. Crows Nest can be reached from the north ridge of Pinnacle.

  • P1
  • Alpine (Mt Cook) 2-
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Comments
This place appears in
Top of the South: Kaikoura–Kahurangi, 2020
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Attribution
Ben Winnubst
UUID
 
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