International Peak-baggers' Tables 2021

HoFMeister’s Report

2021 is the second year for the P500m Hall of Fame and Progress Register.  There is not yet a Roll of Honour for this Table.  One hundred and one people have been recorded for the second edition for 2021 (seventy-seven in 2020) – fifty-seven in the Hall of Fame and forty-four in the Progress Register.

A new feature in the 2021 P500m Table is a separate Progress Register for junior peak-baggers.

In the Hall, the most notable peak-bagging totals were achieved by Rob Woodall, Brian Kalet, Josef Nuernberger and Deividas Valaitis, who all added over a hundred new P500m peaks to their totals, despite the continuing COVID restrictions.  Among other European visits, Josef returned to his native Austria in June/July for a peak-bagging spree, returning home with forty-one new P500m peaks added to his totals, the most prominent being Hochkönig 2941m, P2181m.   

Robert Guzik and Mihai Giurgiulescu climbed out of the Progress Register to join the Hall, where they were joined by Peter Gram, Bob Sumner, Duane Gilliland, Alex Lennon and Neil Sandilands as new entrants to this Table for 2021.  Mihai had been stuck in the Progress Register in 2020 as he had insufficient foreign peaks to qualify.  A trip to his homeland Romania in August/September enabled him to join the Hall using the Large Country Exemption. 

Twenty-eight Awards have so far been achieved - Gold by two people, Silver by six, and Bronze by twenty people.  Four awards were given in 2021 – Bronze to Douglas Harris, Duane Gilliland, Bob Sumner and Steven Song. 

Mark Trengove

P500m HoFMeister

July 2022