Climbing All European Highpoints?

roger rowlett

28/05/2002 at 20:28

Has anybody ever climbed all of the European highpoints?

I have a website devoted to the highest points of each U.S. state
http://americasroof.com

I also have a list of European highpoints:
http://americasroof.com/europe.shtml

I have received some queries about people interested in climbing them all. Has anybody done this? Is there a Club? We have a club in the U.S. devoted to the 50 states:

http://highpointers.org

Thanks!

Dave Moseley

28/05/2002 at 21:03

Looking at the second URL, does that mean Europe has become an annexe of the U.S.?, If anyone wants a researcher to check out the routes, let me know, I'll almost do it for not very much money, just living expenses for a few years.

Jon Doran

28/05/2002 at 22:55

Hi Roger, there is a Brit who is in the process of climbing all the European highpoints - I can't remember his name, or even whether he's finished or not, but there was a story or two on the site about him last year. He only had a couple left to do. If you do a search in the news section of the site, you should be able to track the man down, or even Google him. He had either finished or was, I think, one or two summits away from finishing. I'll try and dig it out myself tomorrow morning.

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Jon Doran

28/05/2002 at 23:15

Okay, the guy's name is Rod Baber, there's some stuff here. He was sponsored by Alta Vista. Oh yeah, link he did it, but we didn't notice... Never mind, now he wants to climb the highest point in every country in the world.

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neil rich

29/05/2002 at 08:45

I read a book by a chap who did all the highest points of the english counties. Smaller scale than all the states but still an achievement of sorts.
Bear in mind Roger that we have counties that are flatter than florida...

joan collins

29/05/2002 at 10:12

There's someone else who's done it before Rod Baber, maybe 5 or 6 years ago. Can't remember his name but he was British, ex-army (I think), and did it over a period of a few years with limited or no sponsorship. When he completed it, it was speculated that he was the first person to have done so, but the papers didn't seem quite sure.

roger rowlett

30/05/2002 at 16:51

Many thanks Jon and everybody else.

I'm surprised that with Brit passions for walking and visiting lists, that there's no widespread passion to climb the European highpoints.

Our Highpointers Club has 2,500 members. We have a subset that wants to visit the 3,500 U.S. counties!!!
http://cohp.org

Now some of our Club members are turning their eyes to Europe.

Thanks again!

Roger.

Jon Doran

30/05/2002 at 17:50

No probs. I suspect that it's partly because some of them are a nightmare to get to - eg Ararat (Turkey) is in a military controlled zone and you need a permit from memory, others aren't worth climbing, I mean, the highest peak in Denmark? Do me a favour. And then, of course, being Brits, we're essentially insular and scared of crossing the bit of water between us and the rest of the continent.

We do have a variety of serious collectors though, the Munroes I'm sure you know about, but there are all sorts of sub-divisions and sub-sub divisions. And all the alpine 3000ers and 4000ers are popular.

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