Of the six expeditions recently announced by Gore-tex, which have gained valuable Shipton-Tilman grants for 2015, three are from the UK. Read more »
A small Indo-British team of Susan Jensen from Scotland, Divyesh and Vineeta Muni (Mumbai) and Chamonix-based mountain guide Victor Saunders has made the first ascent of Chamsen, one of few remaining previously untouched 7,000ers in India. Read more »
The BMC is pleased to announce the inauguration of the Julie Tullis Memorial Award, a small grant to assist deserving female mountaineers or any disabled climbers or mountaineers, both male and female, to achieve their climbing or mountaineering ambitions. Read more »
John and Anne Arran have just returned from their most adventurous big-wall expedition yet. They climbed the first ever ascent of Amurí tepui in Venezuela up a clean wall near the line of an incredible 600m waterfall which is so off the beaten track it doesn’t even yet have a name! Read more »
The Alison Chadwick Memorial Award is a financial award made to either a female mountaineer or an all female expedition. This article sets out the background to the award. Read more »
Anne Arran, leader of the Chimanta 2008 expedition, has been awarded the 2008 Alison Chadwick Memorial Award. For more details read on. Read more »
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