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After splitting up into climbing teams, members of this party climbed Dir Gol Zom by the E ridge and by the NE face, but were forced by 10 days' continual snowfall in early September to abandon their Read more
Bad weather and dangerous conditions forced this party to abandon this attempt at a new route, between the 1976 route and the New Zealand route on Trango, after reaching the final pitch below the summ Read more
Nick Kekus and Richard Cox made a bold attempt on Shivling (6,543m). After some Grade V rock climbing, on 22 September they reached the top of the ice field. At 6,100m Cox fell when an anchor failed w Read more
AlIen Fyffe and Bob Barton succeeded in their objective-the unclimbed SW Pillar of Bhagirathi III (6,454m). They took 11 days on the climb from the Brown Tower, bivouacking on inadequate ledges for th Read more
A team under Mike Stead made an attempt on the spectacular, steeply glaciated S face of Langtang Lirung. This peak was reconnoitred by Tilman in 1949, and was the object of 8 subsequent expeditions (6 Read more