Contents
YOUTH OF TODAY
Arjuna’s Bow
Aiguille du Jardin
The Spectre: An Antarctic Diary
Looking to the Future
Ben Silvestre
Ben Tibbetts
Leo Houlding
Ian Parnell
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PAST TIMES
Falak Ser: The Road To Heaven
Jotunheimen: the Rough and the Smooth
Dennis Gray
Jim Gregson
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NORTH AMERICA
Game of Thrones
Alaska: Fun or Fear?
Simon Richardson
Tom Livingstone
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HIGH ASIA
Gasherbrum IV
Half a Route in Shimshal
The Mountains of South-eastern Iran
Bruce Normand
George Cave
Richard Zöllner
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THE GREAT WAR
The Alpine Club at War: 1914-18
Forgotten Frontier
Peter Foster
Tarquin Cooper
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SCIENCE & NATURE
The Mind Has Mountains
The Nepal Earthquake
Lessons from the Andes
The Peltzman Effect
Malcolm Bass
Mike Searle
Mark Carey & Rodney Garrard
Victor Saunders
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ART & LITERATURE
The Mountain Landscapes of Ferdinand Hodler
Mountaineering Literature as Dark Pastoral
Challenging the Mountaineer’s Gaze
Donald M Orr
Terry Gifford
Jonny Dry
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HISTORY
Thinking Like a Mountain
All By Themselves
One Hundred Years Ago
Jonathan Westaway
Koen Van Loocke
C A Russell
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AREA NOTES
Alps & Dolomites 2017
Scottish Winter 2017-18
India 2017
Nepal 2017
Pakistan 2017
Central Asia 2017
Peru 2017
Argentina & Patagonia 2017
New Zealand 2017
Mount Everest Foundation Reports
Lindsay Griffin
Simon Richardson
Timothy Elson
Ian Wall
Timothy Elson
Hugh Thomas
Antonio ‘Sevi’ Gómez Bohórquez
Marcelo Scanu & Rolo Garibotti
Tom Hoyle
Summarised by Glyn Hughes
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REVIEWS
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IN MEMORIAM
ALPINE CLUB NOTES
Contributors
Index
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