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Fowler and Saunders succeeded in climbing the formidable NW Pillar of Spantik (7,027m), a monolithic feature rising in a continuous sweep of 1,800m, approaching it by the Barpu Glacier from Nagar. Read more
Eight graduates and four students undertook an extensive survey of the Oksfjordjokulen ice-caps and of the 'Fall-Jokul' (detached glacier cones), in particular their geomorphological impact. The head Read more
Richardson and Hart succeeded in their bold objective of a complete traverse of Mt Hunter in Alaska (4,442m) in a 12-day alpine-style push. (Of the two previous traverses, one had taken four months, t Read more
The high cost of local rations from the Hudson Bay store at Pagnirtung limited the scope of this expedition, based at Summit Lake on the Weasel River in the Cumberland Peninsula. Sediment sampling fro Read more
This scientific expedition completed their studies of the thermal balance of the Caldera Glacier of El Altar and of the tree Polylepsis Incana, finding conditions warmer and wetter than expected. They Read more