Contents
At the eleventh hour Michael Scott 5
The first ascent of Yalung Kang Haruo Higuchi 17
The first ascent of Kangbachen Kasimierz Olech 29
Lamjung Himal R. J. Isherwood 37
Continents in collision Basil Booth 43
The south face of Mount Dan Beard (3127 m), Alaska Roger O'Donovan 63
Winter climbing in Lyngen J. M. G. Sheridan 67
Moorland marathons Philip Brockbank 71
An invitation to Mont Aiguille Jean-Paul Zuanon 83
International Meet to Transalai Pamir, July/August 1974
R. Richards 89
Japanese women's expedition-Manaslu 1974 Naoko Nakasako 94
Is there an Abominable Snowman? Rennie Bere 101
Eighty years of British caving J. D. Hanwell 111
The 'Alpine Journal' and its Editors 11,1896-1926 T. S. Blakeney 120
The National Park of the Western Pyrenees J. M. Russell 129
Les Courtes solo Mike Coleman 141
A note on the mountains of Sinai J. M. Hawksley 145
Sia Kangri (7422 m) 1974 diary Wolfgang Stefan 151
The Tairraz family of Chamonix-four generations of mountain photographers
Alpine thunderstorms Colin Taylor 173
From Zero to Astronomy Allen Fyffe 185
Montagne Sainte-Victoire Ernest Shepherd 189
The first ascent of Swargarohini (6247 m) Charles Clarke 195
Dhaulagiri III Klaus Schreckenbach and Peter von Gizycki 198
Majorteqe (Peak 1300 m) 1974
R.D. Hoare 203
Climbers' playgrounds- Europe Wolfgang Frey, Edward Pyatt, Pierre Bossus and Charles Mont 211
Rokapi 1974 Alastair Kellas 219
Shispare climbed Janusz Kurczab 223
The mapping of mountain terrain by side-looking airborne radar
One hundred years ago
C. A. Russell 231
Triennial Report 1972-74 North America Tom Connor 235
Indian Himalaya Soli S. Mehta 239
Mental disturbances at high altitude Z. Ryn 244
General Notes 1974 Equipment and Technique 277
Miscellaneous and Editor's 284
Mountaineering Journals Part 2 292
In Memoriam: Claude Elliott, Arnold Lunn, Wilfrid Anson, D.C.Bull
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G. Charleson, George Starkey, Alan Dewison, David Roberts, Leslie
