 While its distance and vertical separation from the col between the two qualify it as a separate peak entirely, it remains strongly enough associated with High Peak that it is often treated as its lower summit.The first recorded ascent of Kaaterskill High Peak took place on July 26, 1793, when Peter DeLaBigarre, a French "agent" and frequent visitor to the nearby Clermont estate of Chancellor Robert Livingston, who published him regularly in "Transactions", the journal of the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts and Manufactures.One of DeLaBigarre's accounts in 1794 described his adventures in the Catskills the year before.