Mt Gold Smith | ClimbNZ

Type

Altitude

2909m

Part of

Named after Eric Charles Gold Smith, a surveyor, who in 1906 became Chief Surveyor and Commissioner of Crown Lands for Canterbury. Mt Gold Smith is unclimbed directly from the Haupapa Tasman Glacier.

Lat/lon

-43.50807194,170.2795639, NZ Topo Map

Topo50

BX16 801 792

Accessed from

Spencer Glacier

Haupapa Tasman Glacier

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Routes

Reference	Title	Grade	Length	Quality
	Standard Route, 2+	2+	0m	0
P1 Alpine (Mt Cook) 2+ From the Geikie Snowfield traverse the slopes, below the Minarets, from Mt Matenga to a snow basin across two rock spurs running down from the Minarets. Ascend the basin and onto the Main Divide, then up the summit ridge.
	Via Main Divide from Mt Coronet, III,2+	III,2+	0m	0
Traverse the Main Divide from Mt Coronet. P1 Alpine (Commitment) III Alpine (Technical) 2+

Comments

This place appears in

Aoraki Tai Poutini: a guide for mountaineers, 2018

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Attribution

ATP 2018 (Rob Frost)

UUID

6fefa4c2-3e98-49fa-94dd-f0b2a5c41281