International Peak-baggers' Tables 2021

HoFMeister’s Report

One hundred and nine people have been recorded in the second edition of the P1000m Table for 2021 (eighty-nine in 2020), with fifty in the Hall of Fame and fifty-nine in the Progress Register.  In addition, two deceased peak-baggers appear in the Roll of Honour.

A new feature in the 2021 P1000m Table is a separate Progress Register for junior peak-baggers.

Progress was again slowed in this P-category, especially for peak-baggers in the UK, with continuing COVID restrictions making international travel more challenging.

Six people joined the Hall of Fame in 2021.  Robert Guzik climbed out of the Progress Register with a trip to France and Switzerland in July, where he scaled four new P1000m peaks.  He was joined in the Hall by five newcomers – Duane Gilliland, Alex Lennon, José Martinez, Bob Sumner and Peter Gram.  There were two new Awards in 2021 – Duane Gilliland earned a retospective Silver in 2005, and a Bronze for Dustin Erickson, earned climbing home peaks in various US States in 2021.

A total of twenty-four Awards have now been achieved – two Gold, six Silver and sixteen Bronze.

In the Hall, the most notable peak-bagging total was again from Rob Woodall, who climbed fifty-two new P1000m peaks during extended stays in the Alps and Spain over the summer and early autumn.  He has overtaken Petter Bjørstad to take first place in the Hall.  Six other people in the Hall managed to add at least twenty new peaks to their totals – Petter Bjørstad, Josef Nuernberger, Connor McEntee, Deividas Valaitis, James Barlow and Michael Graupe.

People in the Progress Register were less active, with thirty-five people on +0.  Most notable among the active baggers was Rok Podgornik, a new entrant for 2021, with seven new peaks from his Alpine adventures in July and August.  Tom Milliard, a new entrant to the Tables for 2021, also gained seven from peak-bagging in Western Europe and Mexico.

Mark Trengove

P1000m HoFMeister

July 2022