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Mt Ronald Adair

Type
Altitude
2818m
Part of
Image
Caption

Liebig Range, Mt Olaf to Mt Hutton, March 2016

Rights credit
Rob Frost/Subalpine Photography
Lat/lon
-43.592062,170.400919, NZ Topo Map
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Routes

Reference Title Grade Length Pro Quality Alert Operations
6.61 6.61North Ridge, III,2+ III,2+ 0m
0

From the summit of Mt Kenneth follow the loose rock ridge with the odd snow patch to the summit.


  • P1
  • Alpine (Commitment) III
  • Alpine (Technical) 2+

6.62 6.62South Ridge, II,2 II,2 0m
0

From the Murchison Glacier, scramble up moraine, grass, and scree to the snowfield north of the peak, and then climb a snow gully to the Hutton – Ronald Adair Col. From the col, a fairly long, undulating scramble over loose rock leads to the summit.


  • P1
  • Alpine (Commitment) II
  • Alpine (Technical) 2

8.01 8.01East Face, III,3 III,3 0m
0

Takes a line straight up the middle of the face, direct to the summit. Described by the first ascentionists as ‘straightforward snow and ice slopes with a couple of rock sections’.


  • P1
  • Alpine (Commitment) III
  • Alpine (Technical) 3

Images

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Attribution
ATP 2018 (Rob Frost)
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