Contents
About Irghil M'Goun and the Bou Goumez
Hamish Brown
3
Sandstone Towers of the American south-west desert
Eric Bjornstad
10
A progress in Pyreneisme
Kev Reynolds
21
The highest mountains 1968-77
D. F. O. Dangar 29
Turner - Promethean of Alpine painting
WaIter Amstutz
31
Wakhan 1977
Lindsay Griffin
36
Walking and climbing in Botswana
Tony Mills
38
Mountaineering ropes
Brian J. Dunn
43
1978 American K2 expedition
H. Adams Carter
52
Stamps, covers and cachets from Mount Everest
Colin Hepper
53
The ascent of Thui II
N. P. Tritton
58
Shots from the backwoods
C. Douglas Milner
78
A Hundred Days in the Himalaya 1977 Pt II Baleful Barnaj
Paul Nunn
87
Summers in and around the Swiss Pre-Alps
Charles Kemp
92
Brammah 1978
Anthony Wheaton
103
Mountains-the Lighter Side Introduction
Edward Pyatt
107
1 The art of not rock-climbing
Stephen Potter
107
2 Mountain postcards
Ivan Cumberpatch
110
Climbing in Namibia
Frank Elliott
113
The Mummer - Cordillera del Paine, Chile
David Cheesmond
117
A first ascent of Pruppoo-Brukh
Japanese Railway Workers' Karakoram
Expedition
118
Tunnels through the Alps
Paul Sharp
122
Harold William Tilman - a tribute
Peter Lloyd and Colin Putt
132
Anglo-Polish Hindu Kush Expedition 1977
Marek Brniak
137
Climbers' Playgrounds - Europe
Gianni Battimelli, Charles Mont and Joachim Schneider
139
Mountains in the Strand
Kevin FitzGerald
144
In the steps of Shipton
P. J. Horniblow
154
To Silver Turn'd
Francis Keenlyside
157
Small Expeditions in the Himalaya
Rob Collister
166
A Whymper Pilgrimage
Charles Warren
175
Mountaineering in Winter - Some Expeditions in the Lake District
H. A. Gwynne
177
On foot in Nepal
Jay K. Longacre
181
Albigna Valley 1978
Walter Kirstein
183
Some 4000 metre peaks of southern Iran
Guy Sheridan
187
Some more lists of mountains
Charles Mont
197
Big Science in the Pyrenees
Peter Hillman
201
One Hundred Years ago
C. A. Russell
204
Events and Trends 1975-77 The Alps
Lindsay Griffin
211
Regional Notes 1978
Tom Connor
220
Equipment and Technique
Tom Connor
244
Science Notes 1978
Tom Connor and Edward Pyatt
246
Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the first ascent of Mt Everest
Peter Lloyd
250
Miscellaneous and Editor's Notes 252
Book Reviews 1978 compiled by Geoffrey Templeman
257
In Memoriam compiled by Geoffrey Templeman (Lord Chorley,
Joyce Dunsheath, Nick Estcourt, Freda Kemsley, H. B. L. Levy,
Mary Merrick, Sir Ralph Ismay Metcalfe, Count Ugo di Vallepiana,
Alison Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz)
265
