Contents
HIGH ASIA
First Ascent of Gasherbrum V
The Climb
Hagshu North-east Face
North-eastern Spiti
On Finding Peaks and Pushing Limits
No Sleep till Bishkek
In The Tracks of The Snow Leopard
Chi-Young Ahn & Peter Jensen-Choi
Malcolm Bass
Mick Fowler
Derek Buckle
Aleksey Zholobenko
Timothy Elson
Adrian Dye
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SURVEYS
Blue Sky Expedition
South Simvu
Zumthul Phuk
Undiscovered Granite
Cordillera Chaupijanca, Peru
Tom Nakamura
Anindya Mukherjee
Anindya Mukherjee
Paul Knott
Evelio Echevarría
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BY SEA
Greenland and Baffin Island
The Last Leviathan
The Shackleton Traverse
Rev Bob Shepton
Caradog (Crag) Jones
Bjørn Riis-Johannessen
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ALPS
The Lonely Pillar
Simon Richardson
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MATTERHORN 150
14 July 1865
Letters From The Matterhorn
Made For Television
Ian Smith
Roger Birnstingl
John Cleare
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LITERATURE
My Gypsy Self
One Hundred Mountains of Japan
Karen Stockham
Martin Hood
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SCIENCE & NATURE
Digital Expedition Planning
A New Proposal for Reducing AMS
Slippery When Wet
George Cave
Victor Saunders
Allan Pentecost
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ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
Stereo Views
Alfred Williams of Salisbury
Life in a Carousel
Peter Blair
Simon Pierse
Dennis Gray
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HISTORY
‘Machiavellian Bastardy?’
Sacking the Editor
The Shaping of Nineteenth Century Guiding
One Hundred Years Ago
Mick Conefrey
Peter Foster and Gareth Jones
Koen Van Loocke
C A Russell
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AREA NOTES
Alps & Dolomites 2014
Scottish Winter 2014-15
China & Tibet 2014
Indian Himalaya 2013
Nepal 2014
Argentine 2014
New Zealand 2014
MEF Reports
Lindsay Griffin
Simon Richardson
Bruce Normand
Rajesh Gadgil
Ian Wall
Marcelo Scanu
Kester Brown
Summarised by Glyn Hughes
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REVIEWS
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IN MEMORIAM
ALPINE CLUB NOTES
Early Drawings of the Matterhorn
Robin Collomb: An Appreciation
Kekoo Naoroji Award
Lines of Ascent: William Heaton Cooper
First Female Ascent of Monviso
Alpine Club Library Annual Report 2014
Contributors
Index
Robin Campbell
John Cleare
Tony Smythe
Terry Gifford
Adele Long and Livio Perotti
Hywel Lloyd
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