Malte Brun is the highest peak in the Malte Brun Range, which lies between the Tasman and

Murchison Glacier The Murchison Glacier is an long glacier flowing through Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park in the South Island of New Zealand. Lying to the east of the Malte Brun range and west of the Liebig Range, high in the Southern Alps, it flows from the ...

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. According to

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, it rises to a height of , although other sources give heights ranging from 3155 to 3199 m. A list published by the

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ranks Malte Brun as the third highest mountain in New Zealand. It was named by

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after the French geographer Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun.

Climbing

Malte Brun was first ascended by Tom Fyfe (solo climb) in March 1894 via the North Face. Today, many climbing routes lie on the mountain, all of which require technical experience and equipment. The classic route is the West Ridge which includes the "Cheval", a knife edge ridge traversed by straddling. Some of the major climbing routes on Malte Brun include: * West Ridge (NZ Alpine

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3+) * South Ridge (NZ Alpine Grade 3) * South Face (NZ Alpine Grades 4 – 4+) Two huts servicing climbers used to exist on the lower slopes, The Beetham hut in the Beetham Valley, and the Malte Brun Hut on moraine terraces above the

Tasman Glacier Tasman Glacier (officially Haupapa / Tasman Glacier) is the largest glacier in New Zealand, and one of several large glaciers which flow south and east towards the Mackenzie Basin from the Southern Alps in New Zealand's South Island. Geography ...

. The Beetham hut was destroyed by

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in the early 1990s.

References

Malte-Brun, Mount Southern Alps Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park Three-thousanders of New Zealand {{CanterburyNZ-geo-stub

Climbing

See also

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