Editing Mount Monadnock (section)

===Hiking history===
[[File:Autumn summit.JPG|thumb|left|Typical crowded summit of Mt. Monadnock on a sunny autumn day]]
The earliest recorded ascent of Mount Monadnock took place in 1725 by Captain Samuel Willard and fourteen rangers under his command who camped at the top and used the summit as a lookout while patrolling for [[Native Americans (United States)|Native Americans]]. Before the practice came to be frowned upon, many early hikers carved their names in the summit; the earliest such engraving reads "S. Dakin, 1801" and is attributed to a local town clerk.<ref name="baldwin"/>

Notable "power hiking" records associated with the mountain include that of Garry Harrington, who hiked to the summit 16 times in a 24-hour period, and Larry Davis, who claimed to have hiked to the summit daily for 2,850 consecutive days (7.8 years).<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120731233111/http://www.monadnockmountain.com/10%20fun%20facts.htm Mount Monadnock.com]}} Retrieved December 14, 2007</ref><ref>[http://www.americanprofile.com/article/997.html American Profile.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201084314/http://www.americanprofile.com/article/997.html |date=December 1, 2008 }} Retrieved December 14, 2007</ref> Davis has hiked the mountain over 7,250 times in the past 35 years.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ledgertranscript.com/Reaching-the-peak-2058110 |title=Reaching The Peak |last=Handy |first=Nicolas |date=May 11, 2016 |publisher=www.ledgertranscript.com |access-date=April 25, 2023}}</ref>

Monadnock is often claimed to be the second-most frequently climbed mountain in the world, after [[Mount Fuji]] in [[Japan]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.monadnockmountain.com/ |title=Mount Monadnock |access-date=August 8, 2012 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730234054/http://www.monadnockmountain.com/ |archive-date=July 30, 2012 }}</ref> Monadnock is climbed by 125,000 hikers yearly,<ref name="baldwin"/> while Mount Fuji sees 200,000-300,000 hikers yearly.<ref>[http://www.env.go.jp/park/fujihakone/topics/090917a.html (Japanese)] Mt. Fuji climber numbers for up to FY 2009.</ref> However, according to [[UNESCO]], [[Mount Tai|Tai Shan]] in China receives more than 2 million visitors a year, far surpassing the other two peaks in popularity.<ref>See page 17 of this UNESCO report: https://whc.unesco.org/archive/periodicreporting/apa/cycle01/section2/437.pdf</ref>