This is where the Terra Nova story begins. In the early 1980s, under the Wintergear and Wild Country banners, we redefined mountain shelter. This decade saw the birth of the Quasar the world’s first ‘dunnel’ geodesic tent and the introduction of GORE-TEX bivi bags to the UK market
Explore the original expedition reports from the era that set the blueprint for modern mountaineering.
Read the original report here In the summer of 1987 four of us, two from Cambridge and two from St Andrews, walked five days up the Biafo Glacier to make first ascents of three unclimbed peaks, and ran a plant…
Read the Original Report here Six of us, none of whom had been to the Himalaya before, went to the Kishtwar in the summer of 1987 to attempt the first ascent of Hagshu, 6,330 metres. We did not climb it.…
Read the original report here In the summer of 1988, thirty of us spent four months at Borup Fiord, on the north coast of Ellesmere Island, about as far north as land goes. The expedition had two aims: a complete…
In 1988, Nick, a passionate adventurer, started a new chapter of his life teaching in the breathtaking landscapes of North Wales. It was during this time that Nick acquired his trusted companion, the Quasar tent. Right from the outset, he could…
Read the original report here In August 1986, a five-man British team made the first British ascent of Salcantay (6,271m), the highest peak of the Cordillera Vilcabamba in southern Peru, by a new route up its huge and unclimbed south-west…
On 10 May 1983, four climbers stood on the summit of Manaslu North (7,200m) in the Nepal Himalaya. It was the first British ascent of the peak, made by a Joint Services team drawn from the Royal Navy, Royal Marines…
A Corner of Nepal Few Had Seen The Khumbu in 1983 was already feeling the pressure of its own fame. Paul Harris, the expedition’s 25-year-old chronicler, opened his report with a note that reads as relevant today as it did…
