Skip to main content

Reay Col

Type
Pass
Altitude
2455m
Part of
Malte Brun Range

Malte Brun Range

Lat/lon
-43.59774323,170.27684932, NZ Topo Map
Topo50
BX16 802 692
Add Place Add Route

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
 From Onslow Hut, 1+ 1+ 0m
0
  • P1
  • Alpine (Mt Cook) 1+

Ascend just behind the Onslow Hut up snowgrass slopes and bluffs to the Lecky Glacier. An easy scenic crossing can be made from here through the rock notch of the Reay Col.
 From the Reay Valley 0m
0
  • P1

Reached from the Reay Valley by sidling on scree on the north side of the valley, climbing up to the Reay Glacier, and then through a rock notch in the ridge 200m south from where the glacier swings up Mt Chudleigh.

Comments
Attribution
Alex Palman
UUID
 
b7cd074f-b043-4285-846d-e4b97e1caea4