Contents

PURE ALPINISM                                                                

Matterhorns Lost and Found                                                    Mick Fowler       

Bittersweet Desire                                                                  Nick Bullock        

Alpine-style: Mummery's legacy squandered                 Claude Gardien

     and reclaimed                                                                  & Neil Brodie       

For Alpine-style read Scottish-style                                Victor Saunders       

Nine Days on the Way that has no end                           Valery Babanov       

CLIMBS                                                                                                           

Frost, Dust and Tear Gas                                                 Michael Cocker        

No Place for the Chicken-hearted                                Graeme Schofield       

Rock Vultures in Arabia                                                          Paul Knott       

The Sliding Snow of Tachab Kangri                                       John Town       

From Russia with Love                                                     David Pickford       

JOURNEYS                                                                                            

Sinai: the long way down                                                  Geoff Hornby       

Mount Burney: a centenary visit                                        John Shipton       

Return to Gorge Country 2007                                Tamotsu Nakamura       

Peaks and Pastels                                                                Andy Parkin       

AC 150                                                                                                           

Valedictory Address                                                    Stephen Venables       

Zermatt Gathering                                                              Ronald Faux       

Lincoln's Inn Finale                                   George Band & Nick Clinch       

Ski Tracks in the Kyrgyz Tien Shan                        Dave Wynne-Jones       

Climbing in the Kagbhusandi Valley                       Dave Wynne-Jones       

Climbing and Kalashnikovs, Part 2                                       Henry Day       

Cambridge in the Late Sixties                                           Rob Collister       

MOUNTAINS: PEOPLE, ENVIRONMENT & SCIENCE                          

Summits of Learning:                                                 Stephen Goodwin       

     Science and mountaineering                                           Ed Douglas       

     The Alps without ice?                                            Wilfried Haeberli       

     150 years of mountain medicine                                   Jim Milledge       

     Mountain waters                                                     Rolf Weingartner       

     Upwardly mobile plants                                                Harald Pauli       

     Development of a global mountain policy                Bruno Messerli       

     The Alpine Conservation Partnership                             Alton Byers       

Caudwell Xtreme Everest                                                  Mike Grocott       

Mera Peak Pains                                                                   Nick Mason       

ARTS                                                                                                              

Beginnings                                                                      Rowan Huntley       

Rhythms of the Alps                                                     William Mitchell       

Kailas: A Painting Khora                                                Julian Cooper        

HISTORY                                                                                                      

Carl Rubenson, Kabru and the birth of the Norwegian AC     Eva Selin       

The 1933 Piz Roseg Disaster and EW Powell                  David Seddon       

One Hundred Years Ago                                                       CA Russell       

AREA NOTES                                                      Edited by Paul Knott       

The Alps 2007                                                                Lindsay Griffin       

Russia & Central Asia 2007-2008                                         Paul Knott       

Greenland 2007                                                             Derek Fordham       

Scottish Winter 2007-2008                                        Simon Richardson       

Ethiopia 2006 & 2007                                                       Pat Littlejohn       

India 2007                                                                      Harish Kapadia       

Nepal 2007                                                                     Dick Isherwood       

China & Tibet 2006 & 2007                                                  John Town       

North America 2007                                                              Ade Miller       

Cordilleras Blanca and Huayhuash            

   2006-2007                                                 Antonio Gomez Bohorquez       

New Zealand 2007-2008                                                   Mark Watson       

Antarctica 2007-2008                                                            Nick Lewis       

Mount Everest Foundation:

    Expedition Reports                                Summarised by Bill Ruthven       

Reviews                                                                                                      

In Memoriam                                                                                              

Alpine Club Notes                                                                                      

Contributors                                                                                                

Index and Notes for Contributors