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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.

149 Expeditions found

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Hindu Kush

Central Asia
Ref: 12/01
January 2012
James Bingham with Eddie Bingham, Quentin Brooksbank and Mark Wynne
Mir Samir is a 6059m peak on the Afghan border with Nuristan that Eric Newby and his companion (both inexperienced mountaineers) set out to climb in 1956, a trip described in ‘A Short Walk in the Hind 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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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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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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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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British Torugart-Too (Kyrgyzstan)

Central Asia
Ref: 10/21
August - September 2010
Sam Leach with James Monypenny & Tom Nichols
The Torugart-Too range in SE Kyrgyzstan had attracted few expeditions in the past, so gave this team plenty of scope for exploration and first ascents. In this they were successful, making the first a Read more
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N Wales Western Kokshaal-Too (Kyrgyzstan)

Central Asia
Ref: 10/10
August - September 2010
Matt Stygall and Dave Rudkin
This team visited the Fersmana Glacier in the Western Kokshaal-Too region of the Tien Shan with the intention of exploring and hopefully climbing Pic Byeliy (aka Grand Poohbah, 5697m) and possibly Pic Read more
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Untouched: First ascents in the Djangart (Kyrgyzstan)

Central Asia
Ref: 10/16
July - August 2010
Matt Traver with Dan Clark & Jamie Maddison from UK plus Chris Parenteau & Mike Royer from USA
The Djangart region of Kyrgyzstan’s Kokshaal-Too range has seen little activity from western mountaineers, so seemed an ideal venue for an exploratory expedition. Prior to departure, the team identifi Read more
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Scottish Wakhan

Central Asia
Ref: 10/15
July - August 2010
Alan Halewood and Neal Gwynne from Scotland
Much of Afghanistan is ravaged by war, but the eastern end of the Wakhan Corridor (‘Little Pamir’) is not affected so is relatively safe, and although it is understood that a Polish climber recently c Read more
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Kara Gakar Exploratory Mountaineering

Central Asia
Ref: 09/14
August 2009
Ms Sally Brown and Eddy Barnes from UK plus Sari Nevala from Finland and Vanessa Wills from Australia
This team had intended to explore and climb in the remote Dzhalgal-Mau valley of the Borkoldoi Range in Kyrgyzstan, but as they arrived in the area hunters on horseback informed them that this was the Read more