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Mt Gold Smith

Type
Mountain
Altitude
2909m
Part of
Main Divide

Named after Eric Charles Gold Smith, a surveyor, who in 1906 became Chief Surveyor and Commissioner of Crown Lands for Canterbury. Mt Gold Smith is unclimbed directly from the Haupapa Tasman Glacier.

Lat/lon
-43.50807194,170.2795639, NZ Topo Map
Topo50
BX16 801 792
Accessed from
Callery River
Haupapa Tasman Glacier

Routes

Reference Title Grade Length Pro Quality Alert Operations
 Standard Route, 2+ 2+ 0m
0
  • P1
  • Alpine (Mt Cook) 2+

From the Geikie Snowfield traverse the slopes, below the Minarets, from Mt Matenga to a snow basin across two rock spurs running down from the Minarets. Ascend the basin and onto the Main Divide, then up the summit ridge.
 Via Main Divide from Mt Coronet, III,2+ III,2+ 0m
0

Traverse the Main Divide from Mt Coronet.

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