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Except for one member suffering frost-bite, this was a happy expedition of four Old Oundelians and seven boys from the school, who tackled four new peaks of 5,400m as training, successfully climbed bo Read more
Heat, illness and arguments with porters dogged Doug Scott's plans for ascents of Rakaposhi N face and Nanga Parbat from the S. Nonetheless, members of his mixed party did climb Diran (7,273m), and th Read more
This six-member team intended to traverse the Biafo and Hispar Glaciers, to make the first ascent of Snow Lake Peak, and to reconnoitre the SE ridge of Trivor. They achieved none of these objectives: Read more
Basing themselves in the Teleki Valley, this undergraduate team from Girton College, discovering that there were no melt-water streams on the Lewis Glacier, altered their objective to the channel morp Read more
A team led by Peter Holmes did valuable ornithological work on the Hygam Rakh wetland area and along the Sum river, ringing a total of 3,897 birds of 77 species. They also made a study of the breeding Read more