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Expedition Reports

Every MEF-supported expedition is required to submit a report to the foundation. We have archived these reports so that they can be of use in research and the planning of future expeditions. Listed below are summary pages for every expedition that the MEF has supported with links to their complete expedition reports. Expeditions can be refined by geographical area and purpose, browsed using the map below or searched using the search box.


1775 Expeditions found

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Cambridge Karakoram Expedition 1984

Ref: 84/13
July - October 1984
Jonathan Bamber with James Mayers, Iain Stark, Paul Thomas, Kevin Bishop and Robert Holmes
This six- member team, led by James Mayers, did some medical project work in Hunza, mapped the snout of the Minapin glacier (finding it had receded 10m since the International Karakoram Project), stud Read more

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Cambridge Mount Kenya Afro-Alpine Expedition

Ref: 84/26
July - September 1984
Jacqueline Crane
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

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The Endless Holdings - Cho Oyu

Ref: 84/11
March - June 1984
Steven Berry with Steven Monks, Richard Harrison, Harry McAulay, Mat Preistman, Steven Findlay, Lydia Bradey, Jeff Jackson, Norman Waterhouse and Ned Kelly
This large party sought to make the first British ascent of Cho Oyu (8188m) via a new route from the south onto the mountain's east ridge. While they were successful in pushing a series of camps up th Read more

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Cambridge British Columbia Expedition

June - August 1984
Peggy Allcott with David Norris, Rosemary Riley and William Wilcock
This two-man two-woman team of geologists studied the internal hydrology of the SW Bridge Glacier, and the relative dating of the late Quaternary glacial deposits in the vicinity (Lillooet area, near Read more

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Muztagh Tower North West Ridge

Ref: 84/05
June - August 1984
Mal Duff with Sandy Allan, Tony Brindle, Jon Tinker, Alex Reid, Andy Greig and Adrian Clifford
Two pairs (Duff and Brindle; Tinker and Allan) of this seven-man party succeeded in reaching the summit of the Muztagh Tower on successive days at the end of July. They found the lower glacier section Read more

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Cambridge Medicinal Plants Study Group

Ref: 84/27
June - July 1984
Mark Rothera and Alistair Brown from Britain
Following up Mark Rothera's encounter in 1983 with an amchi (Tibetan local doctor) in Zanskar, he and Alistair Brown collected, in the Kanji region near Leh, some 150 out of a total of 400 plants in u Read more

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British Trango Tower Expedition

Ref: 84/15
May - July 1984
David Lampard with Andrew Atkinson, Ian Lonsdale, Stuart Holmes and Alan Scott
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

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Multi-Peak Alpine-Style Expedition to the Makalu Region

Ref: 84/10
May - June 1984
Doug Scott from England with Jean Affanessieff (France), Larry Bruce, Molly Higgins, Stephen Sustad from USA, Colin Brooks, Richard Chaplin, Jim Fullalove, Brian Hall, Michael Scott from the UK and Terry Mooney from Ireland
This British-American-Nepalese party of 12, led by Doug Scott, combined family climbing from an attractive Base Camp at 4,900m with ascents of Baruntse (7,220m), the hitherto unclimbed E and Central s Read more

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Irish Churen Himal Expedition 1984

Ref: 84/09
March- May 1984
Dawson Stelfox from Northern Ireland with Phil Holmes, Martin Manson and Malcolm McNaught
This expedition, led by Dawson Stelfox, found itself repeating, on the upper section of the unclimbed 3,000m high SW face of Churen Himal, the route taken by the German expedition of 1983 which had di Read more

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SAS Mount Everest Expedition

Ref: 83/27
March - May 1984
M Lane, J Stokes, M Parry, A Scott, G Cook, A Baxter, M Middleton, R Fonseka, M Maxwell, A Swierzy, P Drake, J Bloomfield and H Taylor
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