Contents
South Georgia Stephen Venables 1
Ama Dablam 1990 Brendan Murphy 8
In the Annapurna Sanctuary Lindsay Griffin 13
Trekking on Tops Vladimir Balyberdin 18
Death at Extreme Altitude Oswald Oelz 25
East of the Saser La Harish Kapadia 28
Indian Face Arete Sandy Allan 43
Where Poets and Paupers Go Stephen Hart 46
Mountains of East and South-East Tibet Michael Ward 49
A Botanist in the Yulong Shan - the Jade Dragon Mountains of
The Geological Exploration of Tibet and the Himalaya
Around the Nam Tso Margaret Clennett 75
Descending Peak Lenin David Hopkins 87
Daniil Gauss's Ascent of the Volcano Kliuchevskaia Sopka
A Kh Khrgian, V V Sher and D M Danilenko 90
Mount Wilhelm David J Broadhead 94
Mountaineering Eden - The Southern Alps J G R Harding 98
In the Footsteps of Gervasutti Simon Richardson 104
More about the Fifties John Hunt 113
Yet Another High-Level Route David Brett Duffield 120
A Night in a Hole in the Ground Alan Harris 126
A Zermatt Retrospect Paula Biner 129
The 125th Anniversary of the First Ascent of the Matterhorn
John Hunt 132
Alpine Meet 1990 Michael Binnie 135
Avalanche Birth Edward Williams 139
For Whom the Chopper Chops Anne Sauvy 140
Oh My God, We're Dead! John C Wilkinson 149
Jura - the Unsung Mountains Kev Reynolds 152
The Pirin Mountains - Kingdom of the Thunder God
Jerzy W Gajewski 155
The Grosse Spitzkop - Matterhorn of Namibia Michael Scott 160
Christmas on Chimborazo Michael Binnie 167
The Seven Summits Oswald Oelz 173
To Bolt or Not to Bolt Mick Fowler 179
Mountains, Genes and Time Ted Maden 182
C E Montague - Mountaineer and Writer Scott Russell 188
A Bibliography of Privately Printed Mountaineering Books
Eugene P Meckly 196
The London Dinner Anne Sauvy 209
One Hundred Years Ago C A Russell 215
Area Notes Compiled by A V Saunders 223
The Alps 1990 Lindsay Griffin 223
South America 1990 Evelio Echevarria 232
Morocco 1990 Hamish M Brown 237
Mount Everest Foundation Notes 1989-90 Edward Peck 257
Book Reviews 1990 Compiled by Geoffrey Templeman 265