Reay Col | ClimbNZ

Type

Altitude

2455m

Part of

The rock notch of Reay Col is a scenic transalpine crossing.
The first crossing was by Arthur Harper and Percy Johnson in 1891.

Caption

Lower Malte Brun Range and Murchison River flats, May 2017

Rights credit

Nina Dickerhof

Lat/lon

-43.59774323,170.27684932, NZ Topo Map

Topo50

BX16 802 692

Approach

From Murchison valley: Ascend just behind Onslow Hut, up through scrub then snowgrass slopes and bluffs to the Lecky Glacier (grade II, 2). There may be an option that avoids the worst of the scrub by following the Onslow outlet stream up to 1220m and then climbing a sloping shelf back to the south, but this hasn’t been investigated.

Accessed from

Murchison Glacier

Tasman Glacier

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Routes

Reference	Title	Grade	Length	Pro	Quality	Alert	Operations
	Malte Brun Range Ski Traverse		1500m		0
One reasonably tough day of six or seven hours. Take a helicopter from Mt Cook airport to a heliski landing site just north of the Burnett Glacier on the south-east corner of the Malte Brun Range. (For the hardy there is a route up onto the Burnett Glacier from the valley floor.) Skin across to and up the Lecky Glacier, through an easy col (2450 metres, grid ref 902308) to descend the Reay Glacier. Staying true right of the creek lower down, a right turn up the next creek leads to a ridge separating the Langdale and Walpole glaciers at 1900 metres (grid ref 884330) then ski down to the Beetham crag area for the night. With a bit more effort you could go up the Walpole to about 2350 and down the Langdale to get to Beetham. P1 1500m

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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