Contents
INDIA
The Sersank Redemption
Gupta
Gangstang
Zanskar’s Supercouloir
Mick Fowler
Jim Lowther
Malcolm Bass
Cosmin Andron
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MODERN TIMES
The Year of Living Dangerously
The Diamond Ridge
Tom Livingstone
Simon Richardson
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TIBET
Nyenchenthanglha South-East
The Holy Mountain
Paul Ramsden
Tamotsu Nakamura
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FAR-FLUNG PLACES
Return to South Georgia
Forgotten Giants of the Rwenzori
Renland, Eastern Greenland
Stephen Venables
Sebastian Wolfrum
Robert Powell
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CENTRAL ASIA
Lost in China
On Skis in the Ak-shirak
Ines Papert & Luka Lindic
Robert Estivill
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MOUNT EVEREST FOUNDATION
Recollections of an MEF Secretary
The Future of the MEF
Bill Ruthven
Andy Macnae
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SCIENCE & NATURE
The Response of Glaciers to Climate Change
Eiger Direct: A Bareknuckle Fight
The Peak of Their Profession
A High-altitude Study of Age-related Forgetfulness
Jonathan Bamber, Richard Alley & Dan Lunt
Mike Parsons & Mary Rose
Thomas Keirle
Victor Saunders
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ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
Image and Reality: On Three Paintings of Mountains
1967: One Old Man Recalls Another
‘Hazard’: The Life of Tom Stobart
Donald M Orr
John Cleare
Dennis Gray
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HISTORY
Eric Shipton’s Secret History
George Mallory and Francis Urquhart: an Academic Friendship
Filming the Summit of K2
The First Ascent of the Barre des Écrins
One Hundred Years Ago
Jonathan Westaway
Stephen Golding & Peter Gillman
Mick Conefrey
Eric Vola
C A Russell
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AREA NOTES
Alps & Dolomites 2016
Scottish Winter 2016-17
India 2016
Nepal 2015-16
Tibet
Pakistan 2016
Central Asia 2016
Peru 2015-16
Argentina & Brazil
New Zealand 2015-2016
Mount Everest Foundation Reports
Lindsay Griffin
Simon Richardson
Timothy Elson
Ian Wall
Tamotsu Nakamura
Timothy Elson
Hugh Thomas
Antonio ‘Sevi’ Gómez Bohórquez
Marcelo Scanu
Kester Brown
Summarised by Glyn Hughes
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REVIEWS
351
IN MEMORIAM
ALPINE CLUB NOTES
Contributors
Index
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