Mount Everest Foundation
Supporting the exploratory
1805 results for "":
The expedition gathered a significant quantity of geographical information about the area and returned with botanical samples for the British Museum. Read more
Zoology, botanical collecting and geology Read more
The main undertaking of the expedition was to determine whether the bulges at the base of the icefall were caused by ice moving down the glacier at different rates at different time of the year as had Read more
At the end of May, the team established basecamp on the Muztagh Glacier, about a mile and a half from the Baltoro Glacier. Through the first half of June, they established camp I and camp II on the Ch Read more
Initially aiming for the Parbati Valley, deep spring snows forced this party to instead establish their basecamp at Pulga. After eventually gaining access to the valley, Hunter and MacLean made an asc Read more