Mount Hicks (New Zealand)

Mount Hicks
Saint David's Dome
Mount Hicks in the center of the image, with Mount Vancouver in background
Highest point
Elevation	3,198 m (10,492 ft)
Prominence	56 m (184 ft)
Parent peak	Mount Dampier
Isolation	0.9 km (0.56 mi)
Coordinates	43°35′16″S 170°07′44″E / 43.587734°S 170.12882°E / -43.587734; 170.12882[1]
Geography
Mount Hicks South Island, New Zealand
Parent range	Southern Alps
Climbing
First ascent	February 9, 1906 by Newton, Low und Alec Graham[2]

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.^[2] 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.^[3]

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