Is Monadnock the most climbed mountain in the world?
No. Although Monadnock may be the most hiked mountain in America, with as many as 120,000 hikers a year, Mt. Fuji in Japan has 200,000 hikers and Mount Tai in China had a whopping 6 million visitors in 2003. Some of the distinction comes down to deciding what “climbed” means since both Fuji and Tai have public transportation partway up the mountain. While there seems to be no other mountain in America that vies for this honor, the forest rangers at Mount Monadnock State Park are so tired of being asked about this that they have taken to stating that Its the most climbed mountain in Jaffrey, N.H., which is clearly indisputable.
