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Tag: Mountaineering

  • Expedition Report: 21st Century Altai

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    Abstract A team of six travelled to the Russian Altai mountains, establishing a base camp in the South Kurai Range and successfully climbing to five summits. All peaks are thought to be first British ascents and it is possible that four of these had not previously been climbed. Some team members also spent a few…

  • How To: Climb Mount Everest

    How To: Climb Mount Everest

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    THIS ARTICLE: Offers a basic overview of how you might go about climbing Mount Everest. It introduces some key terms, highlights the likely difficulties and explains the two main routes to the summit as well as touching on the alternatives. It also covers the basic costs. [divide] [box type=”note” bg=”#ebebeb” color=”#111″ font=”arial” fontsize=”13″ border=”#a6a6a6″ head=”Get…

  • Off to the Dhofar Mountains

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    One of the slight quirks of life in Oman is that you never quite know when public holidays will occur. They’re only announced a few days in advance. Thus it was only last Wednesday – with the announcement of four days off work for Eid al Adha – that Laura and I could properly commit…

  • How To: Climb an Unclimbed Mountain

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    THIS ARTICLE: Will show you how to find mountains that have never been climbed. It takes you from the key factors for identifying potential first ascents to how you going about confirming your suspicions. It is aimed at those with a degree of expedition experience but not necessarily technical expertise. It is based on a…

  • The Sight of Solitude – Part I

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    I awake with a searing pain in my eyes. Without a background in chemistry or any medical knowledge whatsoever, I imagine that this is what it’s like to bathe ones eyeballs in a dilute solution of something rather acidic. Sun cream? A few weeks of being outdoors in the elements had left my skin a…

  • Something a little unknown – Guest Blog: Francis Charlesworth

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    This is a long overdue blog post. I’ve been working with Francis Charlesworth since before this website began and he has yet to feature on the front page. Until now. “Hi Francis, I’m Tim Moss”. I was at Heathrow airport collecting my gear from an expedition to the Indian Himalayas that I had left a…

  • Así Es La Vida (Part Two) – Guest Blog: Andy Ruck

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    My friend Andy Ruck has just had his first book – Así Es La Vida – published and has very kindly offered me an extract for this website. The first instalment went up last week and the second is below. Moments later a police truck screeched to a halt in the dust and out jumped Pedro Ortiz, a…

  • Así Es La Vida (Part One) – Guest Blog: Andy Ruck

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    My friend Andy Ruck has just had his first book – Así Es La Vida – published and has very kindly offered me an extract for this website. To set the tone, I could tell you that Andy has spent the last six years in Scotland with brief and not-so-brief forays into the Alps, Norway, Spain,…

  • Feeding the Rat

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    Wan-der-lust (noun): a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about. This is a term familiar to most people, both as a definition and as a feeling. But it doesn’t cut it for me. I think there’s a better one. Wanderlust is primarily about “the travel bug” but the magnetic force that acts on me…