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Shishapangma (Sanskrit name Gosainthan) was first climbed by the Chinese in 1964 and by four expeditions in 1980/81. Alex McIntyre, Roger Baxter-Jones, Doug Scott and Nick Prescott succeeded in their Read more
Led by Major Henry Day (RE) with his Deputy Major Philip Neame (Parachute Regt), this team of 9 British and 4 Chinese aimed to explore the N part of the Daxue Shan. Having been pre-empted by the Japan 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
A 12-man team carried out various glaciological projects on the Matanuska Glacier as well as recording flora and fauna. The 4 days devoted to mountaineering yielded 4 unclimbed peaks of the order of 2 Read more
This 7-man team was led by Steven Berry, whose father had made an early attempt on the E ridge of Nun, including (in the International Year of the Disabled) the indomitable Norman Croucher, who has tw Read more