Mount Ollivier is a mountain in the
Canterbury
Canterbury (, ) is a cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, situated in the heart of the City of Canterbury local government district of Kent, England. It lies on the River Stour.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the primate of ...
region of
New Zealand
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. It is a peak in the
Sealy Range
Sealy may refer to:
Places
* Sealy Tarns, New Zealand
* Sealy Township, Logan County, North Dakota
* Sealy, Texas
** Sealy High School
** Sealy Independent School District
Other uses
* Sealy (surname), a surname (including a list of people ...
, about west of
Mount Cook Village
Aoraki / Mount Cook, often referred to as Mount Cook Village, is located within New Zealand's Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park at the end of , only south of the summit of the country's highest mountain, also called Aoraki/Mount Cook, in the S ...
. The peak is named after mountaineer
Arthur Ollivier
Arthur Morton Ollivier (23 March 1851 – 21 October 1897) was a businessman in Christchurch, New Zealand, a cricketer, mountaineer, and chess player. Mount Ollivier is named after him.
Early life
Ollivier was born in 1851 in Hammersmith, Midd ...
, who died in 1897.
Mount Ollivier was
Sir Edmund Hillary
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineering, mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropy, philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa people, Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became th ...
's first major climb, in 1939. After his death in 2008, there was a proposal to rename the peak Mount Hillary as a memorial, a suggestion opposed by Arthur Ollivier's family.
Since the establishment of a tramping track to Mueller Hut, not far below the summit, the peak is now one of the easiest accessible mountains in the park. The section between Mueller Hut and the summit is a rock scramble rather than a mountain climb.
Mount Sefton
Mount Sefton ( Māori: Maukatua) is a mountain in the Aroarokaehe Range of the Southern Alps of New Zealand, just south of Aoraki / Mount Cook. To the south lies Mount Brunner, and to the north The Footstool, both more than shorter.
The mo ...
and Aoraki / Mount Cook
Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Its height, as of 2014, is listed as . It sits in the Southern Alps, the mountain range that runs the length of the South Island. A popular tourist destination, it is also a favourite ...
View from the summit of Mount Ollivier.jpg, View from the summit of Mount Ollivier
References
Mountains of Canterbury, New Zealand
Southern Alps
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