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The 200m to 600m granite faces at the western end of Prins Christian Sund have been compared with the monoliths of Yosemite, Baffin and Patagonia. Having visited the area with a BSES group in 1992, th Read more
Kangchenjunga, at 8,586m, is the third highest mountain in the world, but has received significantly fewer ascents than its big brothers. In fact, until this expedition to the North Face, no woman was Read more
The original plan was to approach unclimbed Bobisghir (6,416m) via the Nobande Sobande glacier but owing to local difficulties this team used the Choktoi glacier instead. Three days after establishing Read more
This team planned to explore the Chamba/Lahul area of India and climb Menthosa (6,443m) by two different routes. However, the mountain had changed dramatically, making the climbing far more technical Read more
St Andrew's University took part in a Sino-British expedition (11 Chinese, 5 British) led jointly by Prof Feng Guomei (of the Kunming Institute of Botany) and Prof R. J. Mitchell, Curator of the Botan Read more