Last Updated: 22nd Dec 2025
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West Coast, New Zealand
Last Updated: 22nd Dec 2025
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Difficult
Some hard rock scrambling and/or moderate exposure, or difficult navigation.
1,901m
-42.89958, 171.68724
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For the experienced and off track navigation savvy - Falling Mountain can be accessed from Mount White Road. Hawdon Shelter trail head > Hawdon Hut > Walker Pass > then continuing untracked up a stream towards the basin under Amber Col > rock garden to the peak. The peak was named after the magnitude 7.1 Arthur’s Pass earthquake on 9 March 1929, when 900-metre-high section of the mountain peak collapsed onto Taruahuna Pass, close to the epicentre.
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