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Wilczek Pk

Type
Mountain
Altitude
2359m
Part of
Maximilian Range

Wilczek Peak was named by the German zoologist and mountaineer Robert Von Lendenfeld in 1884.

Lat/lon
-43.442201,170.342846, NZ Topo Map
Topo50
BX16 850 866
Accessed from
Whataroa River
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Routes

Reference Title Grade Length Pro Quality Alert Operations
9.11 9.11From Callery Glacier, II,2 II,2 0m
0

A short scramble from the head of the Callery Glacier. If northern slopes are bare of snow, further around to the east may offer an easier route.
The first ascent party accessed this climb from the Burton Glacier via the Leonard Glacier and a snow couloir between Wilczek and Pt 2160m.
Wilczek can also be climbed from Whymper Hut: either follow the Callery Saddle route to the snow basin east of the pass and climb to a col south of Pt 2093m to access the Callery Glacier; or climb directly to the Park-Wilczek Col.

  • P1
  • Alpine (Commitment) II
  • Alpine (Technical) 2
SR SRSouth Ridge, 1+ 1+ 0m
0
  • P1
  • Alpine (Mt Cook) 1+

From Whymper Hut, follow the gully draining between Mt Wilczek and Mt Alec, then snowfields beyond Pt 1573 metres up towards the Maximilian Range. The pleasant rock scramble along the South Ridge is a little longer and more challenging than that along the North West Ridge, and leads over a subsidiary peak en route.
Comments
Attribution
Yvonne Cook and Geoff Spearpoint,
in association with the Canterbury Mountaineering Club
UUID
 
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