Contents
PURE ALPINISM
Matterhorns Lost and Found
Bittersweet Desire
Alpine-style: Mummery's legacy squandered and reclaimed
For Alpine-style read Scottish-style
Nine Days on the Way that has no end
Mick Fowler
Nick Bullock
Claude Gardien & Neil Brodie
Victor Saunders
Valery Babanov
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CLIMBS
Frost, Dust and Tear Gas
No Place for the Chicken-hearted
Rock Vultures in Arabia
The Sliding Snow of Tachab Kangri
From Russia with Love
Michael Cocker
Graeme Schofield
Paul Knott
John Town
David Pickford
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JOURNEYS
Sinai: the long way down
Mount Burney: a centenary visit
Return to Gorge Country 2007
Peaks and Pastels
Geoff Hornby
John Shipton
Tamotsu Nakamura
Andy Parkin
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AC 150
Valedictory Address
Zermatt Gathering
Lincoln's Inn Finale
Ski Tracks in the Kyrgyz Tien Shan
Climbing in the Kagbhusandi Valley
Climbing and Kalashnikovs, Part 2
Cambridge in the Late Sixties
Stephen Venables
Ronald Faux
George Band & Nick Clinch
Dave Wynne-Jones
Dave Wynne-Jones
Henry Day
Rob Collister
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MOUNTAINS: PEOPLE, ENVIRONMENT & SCIENCE
Summits of Learning:
Science and mountaineering
The Alps without ice?
150 years of mountain medicine
Mountain waters
Upwardly mobile plants
Development of a global mountain policy
The Alpine Conservation Partnership
Caudwell Xtreme Everest
Mera Peak Pains
Stephen Goodwin
Ed Douglas
Wilfried Haeberli
Jim Milledge
Rolf Weingartner
Harald Pauli
Bruno Messerli
Alton Byers
Mike Grocott
Nick Mason
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ARTS
Beginnings
Rhythms of the Alps
Kailas: A Painting Khora
Rowan Huntley
William Mitchell
Julian Cooper
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HISTORY
Carl Rubenson, Kabru and the birth of the Norwegian AC
The 1933 Piz Roseg Disaster and EW Powell
One Hundred Years Ago
Eva Selin
David Seddon
C A Russell
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AREA NOTES
Edited by Paul Knott
The Alps 2007
Russia & Central Asia 2007-2008
Greenland 2007
Scottish Winter 2007-2008
Ethiopia 2006 & 2007
India 2007
Nepal 2007
China & Tibet 2006 & 2007
North America 2007
Cordilleras Blanca and Huayhuash 2006-2007
New Zealand 2007-2008
Antarctica 2007-2008
Lindsay Griffin
Paul Knott
Derek Fordham
Simon Richardson
Pat Littlejohn
Harish Kapadia
Dick Isherwood
John Town
Ade Miller
Antonio Gómez Bohórquez
Mark Watson
Nick Lewis
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Mount Everest Foundation: Expedition Reports
Reviews
In Memoriam
Alpine Club Notes
Contributors
Index
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Notes for Contributors
Summarised by Bill Ruthven
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