International Peak-baggers' Tables 2024

HoFMeister’s Report

The Hall of Fame now has sixty-one members. Eight are new since 2023, all but one adding a new entry peak to the Hall of Fame, most of them national highpoints:  Serge Massad (Ojos del Salado 6893m, P3688m, Chile and Argentina), Travis Greiman, Craig Jagow (Blue Mountain Peak 2256m, P2256m, Jamaica), Michel W (Mount Cameroon 4040m, P3901m), Péter Hugli (Finsteraarhorn 4274m, 2278m, Switzerland), Claudia Kurzböck (Mount Elbert 4401m, P2773m, USA), Toni Montaña (Monte Rosa 4366m, P2164m, Switzerland), and Chad Thomas with the most eye-catching entry peak of the year, the very hard to access Laos national highpoint Phou Bia 2830m, P2079m. Five of the new entrants are based in North America (USA and Canada), three in Europe (Switzerland and Hungary).

Petter Bjørstad maintains a healthy lead, the first to achieve an Emerald Award, his twelve P2000m across eight countries including four in Mongolia. Mongolia was busy, with Steven Song (#10) and Adam Walker (#7) joining Petter, while Rob Woodall (#2) and Deividas Valaitis (#9) were also there with Richard and Denise McLellan (#4 and #8) – seven of the top ten listers! David Hart (#3) continues to gain on the leaders, with seventeen new P2000m from eleven countries, including Kazakhstan and a long-delayed Greenland trip.

Deividas Valaitis’ largest P2000m total of the year (+24) gains him a Silver Award, passing the sixty mark along with Steven Song (#10, +13), Markus Fischer and Ken Jones.  Newly “Bronzed” are Ted Ehrlich (+3) and Mihai Giurgiulescu (+4), their peaks including the highpoints of Iceland, Slovenia, Austria, Taiwan and Japan. In all, eight new members, one Emerald, four Silver, and four Bronze Awards in 2024.

Rob Woodall

P2000m HoFMeister

April 2025