50 best tramper’s peaks: mountains C-L

February 2015

Read more from

February 2015

Fox Glacier and Southern Alps from Mt Fox. Photo: Nick Groves
Castle Hill Peak, 1998m Torlesse-Korowai Tussockland Park, Canterbury Your car will kindly climb with you the first 945m of ascent to Porters Pass. From here, make your own way through the scrub and tussock, which soon give way to gravel and shattered rock on the approach to Foggy Peak. From there, drop into two saddles […]
Alistair Hall

About the author

Alistair Hall

More From The Life List

Similar Articles

The ultimate tramper’s diary: January to June

The ultimate tramper’s diary: July to December

The stay-sane guide to summer holiday walks

Trending Now

The 2026 Wilderness Outdoor Photographer of the Year competition

A tale of adventure and tragedy

Mt Peel, Kahurangi National Park

A lofty location for Brass Monkey

Get lost and suffer

Subscribe!
Each issue of Wilderness celebrates Aotearoa’s great outdoors — written and photographed with care, not algorithms.Subscribe and help keep our wild stories alive.

Join Wilderness. You'll see more, do more and live more.

Already a subscriber?  to keep reading. Or…

34 years of inspiring New Zealanders to explore the outdoors. Don’t miss out — subscribe today.

Your subscriber-only benefits:

All this for as little as $6.75/month.

1

free articles left this month.

Already a subscriber? Login Now