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Button Pk

Type
Mountain
Altitude
1966m
Part of
Main Divide

‘A large heap of stones held together by fate and mutual goodwill’, wrote Deryck Morse, who also noted that the rock on the route from Kea Pass, ‘holds together fairly well, so long as you don’t step on it’.

Lat/lon
-43.102362,171.079187, NZ Topo Map
Topo50
BV18 437 260
Accessed from
Whitcombe River
West Mathias River
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Routes

Reference Title Grade Length Pro Quality Alert Operations
 From Harcourt Creek, 1- 1- 0m
0
  • P1

Easily approached up gravel and rock from the west.

 South Ridge, 1 1 0m
0
  • P1
  • Alpine (Mt Cook) 1

Gain Kea Pass and then climb the ridge.

Comments
Attribution
Yvonne Cook and Geoff Spearpoint,
in association with the Canterbury Mountaineering Club
UUID
 
072a3657-0918-4289-8b59-569d7ca76671