Mt Suter | ClimbNZ

Type

Altitude

2094m

Part of

Lat/lon

POINT (168.0130637 -44.81840063)

Topo50

CC08 036 064

Accessed from

Routes

Reference	Title	Grade	Length	Quality
	South Ridge			0
P1 The party traversed Suter descending the Falls Creek-Hollyford ridge line. The crest of this ridge was climbed by JH Christie and T Moore in Oct 1933.
	South Face		700m	0
P1 700m Trad At the head of Falls Creek in the Earl Mountains, Fiordland. Ben and Stephen carried rock gear but placed little, finding continuous good-quality ice for the length of the route. They bivvied on the summit and descended via the full length of the east ridge back to the Hollyford
	Original Route			0
P1 A diagonal line up to the left to gain the summit ridge.
	East Ridge Gully Route, 2,II,2+	2,II,2+	700m	0
From upper Falls Creek around 1000m contour, obvious valley to ridge top snow-ice gully with no escape. Probably below spot height 1762m on south side of the East Ridge of Mt Suter. Steep pitch near mid height. Descend by heading east down ridge and down climb gully systems to valley. Good bivi cave in valley. P1 Alpine (Technical) 2 Alpine (Commitment) II Alpine (Mt Cook) 2+ 700m

Attribution

Craig Jefferies. http://climber.co.nz/news/first-ascent-south-face-mt-suter. Kester Brown. Stephen Skelton.

UUID

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