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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.

1784 Expeditions found

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Eren Habirga

China and Tibet
Ref: 11/27
August-September 2011
John Town with Iwonna Hudowaka, Tadeusz Hudowski, Jerry Lovatt and Richard Wojtaszewski (UK)
The Eren Habirga and Borohoru mountains form a heavily glaciated part of the Tien Shan, and stretch c.480km NW from near Urumchi to the Kazakhstan border. They contain more than 20 attractive peaks ov Read more
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British Columbia

America – North & Central
Ref: 11/26
August 2011
Adrian Dye with Dr Neil Mackenzie, Aengus Mccullough & Kenneth Wright (UK)
Sittakanay Peak (2415m) was chosen as the objective of this team, as according to the Canadian Mountain Encyclopaedia it was unclimbed. This team felt that the most promising route would be via the SE Read more
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Cordillera Carabaya

America – South
Ref: 11/24
August - September 2011
Tom Ripley with Hamish Dunn (UK)
The Cordillera Carabaya range lies in Southern Peru and is remote and rarely visited, so offered a good opportunity for exploration and first ascents. Unfortunately, when this pair arrived at the near Read more
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Aberystwyth University Kamchatka

Russia
Ref: 11/21
August - September 2011
Colin Souness and Henry Patton (UK)
The Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia boasts 160 volcanoes, of which 29 are still active. Photographs of an ash covered glacier near to one of these – Klyuchevskaya Sopka (4721m) – show an inc Read more
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Women’s Wakhan Corridor

Central Asia
Ref: 11/22
July - August 2011
Ms Pat Deavoll with Ms Chris Byrch
Koh-e-Baba-Tangi (aka Jade Peak, 6516m) is the highest point in the eastern sector of the Afghan Hindu Kush, and was first climbed in 1963 by an Italian team via its West Ridge: all subsequent attempt Read more
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Tajikistan & Afghanistan First Ascents

Central Asia
Ref: 11/18
July - September 2011
Becky Coles with James Kitson (also Mark Redhead in Tajikistan only)
Strictly speaking, this was two expeditions running back to back. The first part was in Tajikistan, where the team hoped to make the first ascent of the last unclimbed 6000m peak in the little visited Read more
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Kyrgyz Djangart

Central Asia
Ref: 11/17
July - August 2011
Richard Tremellen with Alex Brighton (UK)
The Djangart region is a sub-range of the Tien Shan in Kyrgyzstan, midway between Inylchek Glacier and the Western Kokshaal-Too, and has a number of unclimbed peaks c 5000m. This team hoped to climb a Read more
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KCLAMC Sarychat/Fersmana 2011

Central Asia
Ref: 11/14
July - August 2011
Gareth Mottram with Charlie Evans and Edward Lemon (UK) plus Hannes Granberg from Sweden (SE)
This was a follow-up to an expedition in 2009 [reference 09/27] which was dropped off 25km short of the intended spot in the central part of the Western Kokshaal-too., and thus forced to waste valuabl Read more
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Foraker/Lacuna

America – North & Central
Ref: 11/23
May 2011
Graham Zimmerman (NZ/US) with Mark Allen (US)
This team planned an exploratory climbing trip in the Central Alaska Range. From the Kahiltna Base Camp, they skied 27 km up the previously unexplored North West Fork of the Lacuna Glacier (south of F Read more
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Cordillera Oriental

America – South
Ref: 11/16
May - June 2011
Matt Balmer with with Dan Fitzgerald and James Wake (UK)
Although first climbed in 1957, Huaguruncho Chico (c.5300m) apparently still awaits a second ascent, so this team hoped to achieve that by completing a route on its South Face previously attempted by Read more