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Blair Pk

Type

Altitude

2486m

Part of

Southern Alps Ka Tiritiri O Te Moana

Lat/lon

-43.2824845,170.85455953, NZ Topo Map

Topo50

BW18 259 056

Accessed from

Cockayne Glacier

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Routes

Reference	Title	Grade	Length	Pro	Quality	Alert	Operations
WR	WRWest Ridge		0m		0
P1 From Heim Plateau follow moderately easy rock, exposed in places, with an awkward face just below the summit.
SR	SRSouth Ridge, 2-	2-	0m		0
P1 Alpine (Mt Cook) 2- A steady rising traverse of the crevassed Heim Plateau leads to the upper icefall that spills off Blair Peak. Follow the ridge, moving on to the face when necessary, which is exposed towards the top. This route can get cut off just below the summit in late season.
	North Ridge, 2	2	0m		0
P1 Alpine (Mt Cook) 2 From the Swift Water From the Swift Water, follow up the north west slopes under Blair and gain the North Ridge. A section of rock can be avoided by going to climbers right on snow and when this steepens markedly can be sidled off further right to gain a gentle ridge below the summit.
	From the Radiant Glacier, 1+	1+	0m		0
P1 Alpine (Mt Cook) 1+ From the Radiant Glacier, follow up snowslopes between the north and north east ridges.

Comments

Attribution

Yvonne Cook and Geoff Spearpoint,
in association with the Canterbury Mountaineering Club

UUID

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