Veteran Pk

(1 route)

This was the last peak above the Milford road to get a first ascent.

Type: 
Mountain
Altitude: 
1836m
Access: 

Traverse from Mt Ada or Access Peak, no known direct access.

Lat/Lon: 
-44.736339000000, 167.908044000000
NZMS260: 
D40 069 955
Topo50: 
CB08 968 337
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Veteran Peak Traverse
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Veteran Peak was the last peak above the Milford Road in the Cleddau to get a first ascent. As early as the 1950s local climbers had noticed there was a peak, not visible from the road, on a hard to 'access' section of ridge. Forty years later the first ascent (and traverse) involved two days from Homer Hut, and the first full traverse from Ada to Homer Saddle. The west ridge is mainly a walk on solid slabs, the east ridge a steeper scramble.
Hugh Van Noorden, December 1985
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