Ojos del Salado, a member of the Seven Second Summits
Peak bagging or hill bagging[1] is an activity in which hikers, climbers, and mountaineers attempt to reach a collection of summits, published in the form of a list. This activity has been popularized around the world, with lists such as 100 Peaks of Taiwan, four-thousand footers, 100 Famous Japanese Mountains, the Sacred Mountains of China, the Seven Summits, the Fourteeners of Colorado, and the eight-thousanders becoming the subject of mass public interest.
There are numerous lists that a peakbagger may choose to follow. A list usually contains a set of peaks confined to a geographical area, with the peaks having some sort of subjective popularity or objective significance, such as being among the highest or most prominent of the area. Some maps and lists may be inaccurate, however, which has implications for climbers and peak-baggers who rely on publicly reported data.[2]
Although peak bagging is a fundamental part of the sport of mountaineering, the term is strongly associated with hiking and other non-technical activities like snowshoeing. A handful of lists, such as the eight-thousanders and the Alpine four-thousanders, have an extremely high reputation among mountaineers, but in general the term "peak bagging" is a pejorative to many climbers.[3][4][5]
Peak bagging is distinguished from highpointing, where the goal is to reach the highest point in some geographic area (e.g. county, state, or country), whether or not it is a peak.
^"Hill Bagging". www.hill-bagging.co.uk.
^Michal Apollo, Joanna Mostowska, Kamil Maciuk, Yana Wengel, Thomas E. Jones & Joseph M. Cheer (2020) Peak-bagging and cartographic misrepresentations: a call to correction, Current Issues in Tourism, https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2020.1812541
^David Reuther; John Thorn (1 October 1998). The Armchair Mountaineer. Menasha Ridge Press. ISBN 978-0-89732-092-4.
^Meyer, John (2019-11-21). "Colorado woman first to climb all 846 peaks above 13,000 feet in every state but Alaska". The Know. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
^Frick-Wright, Peter (2019-01-15). "The Mad, Obsessive Quest to Summit the World's Highest Points". Outside Online. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
Peakbagging or hill bagging is an activity in which hikers, climbers, and mountaineers attempt to reach a collection of summits, published in the form...
attempting to climb every Munro is known as "Munro bagging". Munro-bagging is a form of peakbagging. A walker who has climbed all Munros is entitled to...
called attribute bagging In mountaineering, peakbagging In medicine, ventilating a patient with a bag valve mask In agriculture, the bagging hook, a form...
Quebec's 1000-meter peaks is a list of the highest summits in Quebec, used in the mountaineering sport of peakbagging. Ranked peaks have 100 m (328 ft)...
Munros, the peaks above 3,000’ elevation in Scotland. Once defined the list became a popular target for what became known as peakbagging, where the adventurous...
published it in a naturalists' journal. A decade later hikers interested in peakbagging formed the Catskill Mountain 3500 Club, an organization similar to the...
Other peakbagging lists: New England Fifty Finest Adirondack High Peaks Edna Erspamer (19 May 2009). GETTING HIGH: CONFESSIONS OF A PEAK-BAGGING JUNKIE...
Nevis (1,345 m) Scafell Pike (978 m) Snowdon (1,085 m) The National Three Peaks Challenge is an event in which participants attempt to climb the highest...
the main goal. Peakbagging is the general activity of ascending peaks that are on a list of notable mountains, such as the 4000m peaks of the Alps. Enchainment...
Adams V The summits marked with an asterisk (*) are included on the peakbagging list of 4,000-foot and higher mountains in New Hampshire; the others...
The 5 Peaks Challenge is a hill climbing challenge the aim of which is to ascend and descend the highest peak in each of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland...
the mountaineering sport of peakbagging. The list comprises the 50 summits with the highest topographic prominence — a peak's height above the lowest contour...
Puškáš [sk] (Slovakia) are particularly popular. There is an informal peakbagging challenge called Wielka Korona Tatr [pl] / Velka Korona Tatier (or Great...
three of these peaks are included on the peak-bagging list of four-thousand footers in New Hampshire. Mount Franklin, an "unofficial" peak (not prominent...
January 2015. British Mountaineering Council: "60 years of Seven Summits peakbagging (29/08/2013)" by Lindsay Griffin, thebmc.co.uk, Retrieved 2 January 2015...
prominence, and other criteria such as isolation. These lists are used for peakbagging, whereby hillwalkers attempt to reach all the summits on a given list...
runners have set many of the peakbagging records in the UK. In 1932 the Lakeland runner Bob Graham set a record of 42 Lakeland peaks in 24 hours. His feat,...
mountaineering sport of peakbagging. The list is a superset of the New England Four-thousand footers, with the same requirement that each included peak must have 200...
Outlying Fells. Summiting all of the Wainwrights is a popular form of peakbagging in the Lake District, along with the Birketts. Because both lists are...
the original on 28 January 2016, retrieved 3 April 2016 "Fanthams Peak". PeakBagging New Zealand. 23 November 2016. Archived from the original on 31 August...
was achieved regarding the summit. However, a very large number of lesser peaks were climbed for the first time and a southern route up the Western Cwm...
Explorer Emblem To the general public, they are most known for their peakbagging list, created in 1955, a product of the Sierra Club's long legacy of...
successive peakbagging records within the scope of the Bob Graham Round: 1971: 61 peaks in 23h37m 1972: 63 peaks in 23h35m 1975: 72 peaks, claimed to...
(Scotland) and Wainwrights (England). Specific activities such as "peakbagging" (or "Munro bagging") involve climbing hills on these lists with the aim of eventually...
In peakbagging terminology in the United States, the Southern Sixers refers to the group of mountains in the southern states of North Carolina and Tennessee...
a mountain). Hill Bagging (the online version of the Database of British and Irish Hills) GetOutside (Ordnance Survey) OL1 Dark Peak area (Map). 1:25000...
Bushwalking Club: Snowy Mountains Walks ISBN 0-9599651-4-9 Puncak Mandala at the gunung bagging website PeakBagger Climbing Carstensz Pyramid, Papua Indonesia...
Global Information