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The Cordillera Central is a little-visited area of Peru, 100km E of Lima, with a number of spiky peaks. This team found that there had been a considerable reduction in glaciation since the maps were d Read more
The Katchikani area of the Hindu Kush is restricted, so it had previously been visited by few (if any) Westerners. This team explored the Thalo glacier and made probably the first ascent of a 5,441m p Read more
This mixed team (6 British, 5 Ecuadorean), working in co-ordination with the East Anglian Ecuador Cloud Forest Expedition (see 92/6), set out to study aspects of the cloud forest and aquatic ecosystem Read more
Of nine climbers only four acclimatised properly and of these only two reached Camp 4A (6,500m) on Masherbrum (7,821m), retreating owing to bad storm conditions. Read more
This seven-member team gave up their projected objective of Pyramid Peak in the Malangutti glacier area in favour of climbing two peaks (5,200m and 5,550m) near the Corner Peak and the unclimbed peak Read more