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Expedition Reports

Every MEF-supported expedition is required to submit a report to the foundation. We have archived these reports so that they can be of use in research and the planning of future expeditions. Listed below are summary pages for every expedition that the MEF has supported with links to their complete expedition reports. Expeditions can be refined by geographical area and purpose, browsed using the map below or searched using the search box.

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British Hagshu-Kishtwar

Himalaya – India
Ref: 87/39
August - September 1987
Andy Dunhill with Stuart Gascoyne, Roger Brookes, Mark Jackson, Alan Peel and Simon Fenna
This six-man party failed to reach its first objective: the unclimbed summit of Hagshu (6,330m): but two members succeeded in reaching one of the summits of Chiring. Read more
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British Amne Machin Expedition

China and Tibet
Ref: 87/29
August - September 1987
John Town with Martin Hamper, Michael Pettipher, Catherine Pettipher and Ben Williams
This party succeeded in the first ascent of Amne Machin IX (5,690m), the prominent S ourlier of this range in NW Central China. A thorough exploration of the E side of the 30km-long massif was carried Read more
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lndo-British Mt Changuch Expedition

Himalaya – India
Ref: 87/27
August - September 1987
Geoff Hornby with Duncan Hornby, Aqil Chaudhry, Jonathan Preston and John McKeever
Six Indian and four British members found their objective, Changuch, unapproachable from the Pindar Valley and instead made the first ascent of the N ridge of Laspa Dhura at the head of the Kafni Glac Read more
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British West Karakoram

Pakistan
Ref: 87/21
July - August 1987
Jeremy Hasnip
A lightweight, alpine style eight man mountaineering expedition to the Karakoram. The objectives are to climb up to ten unclimbed peaks in the Naltar valley area, just off the Hunza valley. Also, a fa Read more
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Laguna Paron (Cordillera Blanca)

America – South
Ref: 87/33
July - August 1987
Jonathan Marsh with Hamish Osborn, Nigel Hollett, Martin Putnam and Christopher Martin
This four-man team spent five weeks at 4,000m, studying the bathymetry of this glacial lake, and the glaciology of the ice-filled moraine (Hatunraju) at its foot. Findings will be made available to El Read more
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Glasgow University Andean Expedition

America – South
Ref: 87/30
July - September 1987
This four-man team climbed the NE ridge of Vallunaraju (5868m) and made the first traverse of the SW-NW ridges of Nevado Huandoy Este (probably first British ascent). Read more
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Greenland 'Two Summits' Expedition

Greenland & Arctic
Ref: 87/07
July - August 1987
All four members made the third ascent of Greenland's highest mountain, Gunnbjornsfjeld, from the previously unvisited N side of the Watkins Mountains. In the course of the 180-mile trek, stores from Read more
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International Friendship Expedition to Muztagh Ata

China and Tibet, Central Asia
Ref: 87/40
July - August 1987
Michael Jardine (US), Marti Martin-Kuntz (US), Wilmer Perez (Venezuela), Hiro Saso (Japan), Keiichi Ozaki (Japan), Anthony Willoughby (UK), Victoria Willoughby (UK), Didier Gaillard (France) and Dick Renshaw (UK)
This well co-ordinated international team, with US, Venezuelan, Japanese, French and British members, failed in their first objective of reaching the N peak of Muztagh Ata (7427m) on skis, turning bac Read more
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Karakoram Traverse

Pakistan
Ref: 87/34
July 1987
Duncan Tunstall and Stephen Venables
To mark the 50th anniversary of Shipton's Blank on the Map and to continue his interrupted exploration of 1939, this strong three-man team succeeded in their aim of going up the Biafo glacier to Snow Read more
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Bublimotin 'Hopefuls' 1987

Pakistan
Ref: 87/19
July - August 1987
J Silvester and M Charlton
Although failing to make much impact on the 1,100m SE face of this remarkable spire (c6,000m), the Hopefuls produced a useful profile of the spire and analysed possible routes to other peaks in the Ul Read more