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Du Faur Pk

Type
Mountain
Altitude
2330m
Part of
Main Divide
Main Divide above Hooker Lake, January 2013
Caption

Main Divide above Hooker Lake, January 2013 

Rights credit
Rob Frost/Subalpine Photography
Lat/lon
-43.66464305,170.08398056, NZ Topo Map
Topo50
BX15 649 612
Accessed from
Hooker Glacier
Copland River
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Routes

Reference Title Grade Length Pro Quality Alert Operations
3.13 3.13Hayter Buttress, III,3 III,3 0m
0

Via the ridge between the Stewart and Hayter Glaciers (separating the two tributaries of Hayter Stream) and then via a rock buttress to the summit.

  • P1
  • Alpine (Commitment) III
  • Alpine (Technical) 3
 Cadogan–Madonna Ridge, II,1+ II,1+ 0m
0

A straightforward, scenic ridge.

  • P1
  • Alpine (Commitment) II
  • Alpine (Technical) 1+
 West Ridge, II,3- II,3- 0m
0

Access the lower west ridge from the Copland Valley track and scramble at
will until gaining the ridge crest. Continue along the ridge and turn notches
on the northern and southern aspects. Short sections of up to grade 12
climbing on good quality rock, for the area. One abseil to the snow slopes of
the upper ridge.

  • P1
  • Alpine (Commitment) II
  • Alpine (Mt Cook) 3-
Comments
This place appears in
Aoraki Tai Poutini: a guide for mountaineers, 2018
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Attribution
ATP 2018 (Rob Frost)
UUID
 
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