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Finding that their planned first ascents (Jurau D and Siula Grande W face) had been climbed, Ruddle and Ravenshill substituted two new routes, one on the W face of Trapecio (5,653m), the other on the Read more
This 13-member team led by M Lane intended to climb Everest by the N face, using oxygen above 7,600m. On 2 April the height of 6,860m was reached on the N face; but on 3 April their advance base, on a Read more
Mal Duff and Sandy Allan found the approach up the W Thamserku Glacier very difficult. Their line up the N face to the W ridge was subject to stonefall, and the ridge itself of too great a technical d Read more
Steve Monks and Damian Carroll laid siege to the 1,800m N face of the formidable Devil's Thumb (2,767m), 30 miles inland from the sea-board of the Alaskan 'panhandle'. They planned it as a largely ice Read more
The Edinburgh University East Greenland Expedition met difficult conditions, too much pack-ice and heavy snowstorms, but nonetheless carried out glaciological work between the Pourquoi Pas glacier and Read more