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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
This was the first all women's expedition to the Himalaya. The team of three visited the previously unmapped Phurbal Chyachumbu glacier. Here they made the first ascent of Gyalgen Peak (6151m) on the Read more