Mount Hicks (New Zealand)
Mount Hicks (also known as Saint David's Dome) is a mountain in the Southern Alps in Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park on the South Island of New Zealand. The mountain is 3,198 metres (10,492 ft) high. It is above the Hooker Glacier, in the vicinity of Aoraki / Mount Cook.
The mountain was first ascended in 1906. The starting point for ascents is the Empress hut. From the south face of Mount Hicks there are several possible routes, including the Dingle-Button route.
Notes
- ^ "Mount Hicks, New Zealand". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2015-01-10.
- ^ Bob McKerrow (2009-07-02). "The Official Ebenezer Teichelmann Blog". Retrieved 2010-03-28.
- ^ Neil Wood (December 2003). "Dingle-Button Route on Mt Hicks". mountainz.co.nz. Archived from the original on 26 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mount Hicks.
- Collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, ed. (1895). "Mount Cook from Fitzgerald's Saddle.jpg". Retrieved 2010-03-28. Image of Mount Hicks and Mount Cook, Mount Hicks is to the left of the middle in the background