On October 11 th 1994, Dr Charlie Hornsby and Dr Roddy Kirkwood became the 21st and 22nd Britons to reach the summit of Everest, accompanied by Sherpas Dorje and Dawa Temba. This field report from the Expedition leader, Dr Simon…
The mountain environment and native people are not just an interesting ethnic backdrop to our adventures. Mountains are literally the world’s water towers, and like rainforests and oceans, we cannot afford to ignore our impact on these fragile ecosystems. The…
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…
