For the introduction to the Poly-baggers' Register and Hall of Fame, see here.

2024 is the sixth year of the Tables, comprising a Hall of Fame (with various levels), a Progress Register (for between 100 and 499 ascents), and a Roll of Honour (for deceased poly-baggers who did not make the Hall of Fame before their deaths).

58 people and 14 deceased feature in the 2024 Table, with many again recording poly-bagging of multiple hills.  The 2024 Table contains 155 entries - 67 in the Hall of Fame, 85 in the Register and 3 in the Roll of Honour.  From this year, only those who made progress in the year feature in the Progress Register – i.e. entries for +0 and ‘R’ (retired) have been removed.  This change does not affect entries in the Hall of Fame.

There are is one new entrant to the Hall of Fame this year, with Douglas Law shooting out of the Progress Register with 232 ascents of his new target hill, after a move further north in England.  Welcome!

The most ascents in the year (270) were recorded by Fran Rautiola, on Pack Monadnock 698m, P386m – his secondary peak. Also reaching the 200+ mark were Douglas Law (see above), and Mark Nicholls (213).

Mount Le Conte 2010m, P415m in Tennessee, USA continues to be the most ‘popular’ poly-bagging peak, with six poly-baggers.  My thanks go, as usual, to Tom Layton for sharing with me his researches on peak-baggers for this, and other mountains in the USA. 

Mount Monadnock 965m, P660m, in New Hampshire, USA still remains as the mountain up which the most recorded multiple ascents have occurred – 13,954 ascents. 

Attempts to make contact since my last report with those claiming to have made  huge numbers of ascents of Camelback Mountain/Cew S-wegiom 824m, P406m and neighbouring Piestewa Peak 794m, P360m near Phoenix have got no further.  However, with the Multiple Ascents Register featuring on this new website, at least there is now a place to record these claims until such time as they can be verified and classed as ‘poly-baggers’ in terms of the definition used on this website.

In my last report I mentioned that there were likely to be many people putting up ascents of popular peaks in east Asia  - specifically Fuji-san 3776m, P3776m on Honshu Island, Japan, and Tài Shān 1533m, P1491m in Shangdong Province, China.  I can now report on the first known multiple-ascender of this latter peak in China.  Yúpèi Wáng (瑜珮王),according to Chinese media reports, has become a celebrity on this sacred mountain.  By 25th April 2023 she had made 300 recorded ascents, with twelve in that year so far.

If anyone reading this report has any information on people making multiple ascents across the world who are not recorded on this website, I would like to hear from them.  Please contact me at the address given on the home page. 

Mark Trengove

October 2025