U.S. Climber Does 100 New Zealand Mountains in a Year
See the list of 100 iconic mountains in New Zealand below, of which Nathan Longhurst has climbed in less than a year
American climber Nathan Longhurst, 25, climbed 100 of the most famous mountains in New Zealand within one calendar year. The list of peaks was not his own as there’s even a website here with 95 climbers enrolled. To date, only one climber, Don French, has successfully climbed all of the mountains on the list.
Starting last fall, he set out determined to complete the 100 summits as fast as he could. Yesterday, Longhurst climbed Mount Sefton and The Footstool. Like many peaks on the list, he paraglided from the top of one to the base of the other. Because of his tactics, he said he did not complete the list of 100 routes in the formal way.
The difficulty of the peaks range from mellow scrambles to technical alpine routes where climbers must rope up. Longhurst isn’t just climbing the 100 mountains, but he’s trying to paraglide off from the tops. By flying down, he’s able to sometimes link several peaks in a day.
Back home in the U.S.A., Longhurst became the youngest climber to ascent the Bulger’s List – 247 mountains in the state of Washington – which he climbed in only 138 days. See below for the 100 greatest peaks of New Zealand.
100 New Zealand Peaks
1. Mount Cook
2. Mount Tasman
3. Mount Vancouver
4. Malte-Brun
5. Mount Hicks
6. Lendenfeld Peak
7. Torres Peak
8. Mount Sefton
9. Mount Haast
10. Mount Elie de Beaumont
11. La Perouse
12. Douglas Peak
13. Mount Haidinger
14. Magellan
15. Minarets
16. Mount Aspiring
17. Mount Hamilton
18. Mount Chudleigh
19. Drake
20. Nazomi
22. Mount Alarm
23. Mount D’Archiac
24. Mount Green
25. Mount Earnslaw
26. Hochstetter Dome
27. Mount Earnslaw
28. Mount Sibbald
29. Mount Barnicoat
30. Mount Ruapehu
31. Mount Spencer
32. Mount Arrowsmith
33. Mount Burns
34. Mount Rudolf
35. The Nuns Veil
36. Mount Tutoko
37. Jagged Peak
38. Mount Hopkins
39. Brodrick Peak
40. Mount Whitcombe
41. Mount Ward
42. Mount Dechen
43. Mount Hooker
44. North Peak
45. Mount Sealy
46. Mount Evans
47. Sir William Peak
48. Manakau
49. Mount Loughnan
49. Te ao Whekere
51. The Warrior
52. Unicorn
53. The Thumbs
54. Mount Williams
55. Mount Pollux
56. Mount Maori
57. Anzac Peaks
58. Mount Tyndall
59. Mount Brewster
59. Mount Taranaki
61. Pibrac
62. Malcolm Peak
63. Mount Christina
64. Mount Percy Smith
65. Mount Barth
66. Fettes Peak
67. Climax Peak
68. Mount Tamaki
69. Mount Murchison
70. Lean Peak
70. Mount Alba
72. Stargazer
73. Mount Franklin
74. Mount Travers
75. Dasler Pinnacles
76. Double Cone
77. Somnus
78. Mount Clarke
78. Rabbiters Peak
80. Flat Top Peak
81. Mount Ngauruhoe
82. Mount Hopeless
83. Mount Rolleston
84. Mount Ionia
85. Faerie Queene
86. Mount Annette
87. Mount Paske
88. Dragonfly Peak
89. The Sabre
90. Scotts Knob
91. Mount Franklin
92. Mount Talbot
93. Mount Pembroke
94. Eyre Peak
95. Phipps Peak
96. Mount Irene
97. Avalanche Peak
98. Hikurangi
99. Mitre Peak
100. Mount Hector
