– Photographs and Maps –
Looking south from Carnedd Llewelyn.
Kings College Chapel, Cambridge, taken by moonlight with an exposure of several minutes.
Carn Etchachan (L) and Shelter Stone Crag (R) from across Loch Avon.
Guiding on an alpine voie normale – the Roche Faurio south-east ridge in the Ecrins massif.
Geoff Cohen climbing a steep pitch low down on the Charmoz north face.
Gwyn Davies and The Ladies.
Taking a break in Alaska.
John Cousins trying to make sense of the map in the Tien Shan; Kirov Peak behind.
Geoff Cohen at a bivouac site in Kishtwar.
Dick Isherwood with a long-awaited cup of chang after descending from Annapurna II.
Bob Ferguson posing for a Mars bar in the Alps.
David Gundry after a climb in Cornwall.
Looking down at the West Fork glacier from an unnamed peak in the Hayes Range, Alaska.
Dick Sykes emerging from an Italian bivouac hut.
Dick Renshaw at the top of the ice field on the north face of the Droites
Malcom MacArthur and Elphine on board the RRS Brensfield.
Netti Collister the morning after emerging from Hidden Valley.
First view of the peak Parbati South, 6,128 metres, in Kulu, seen from the col of 5,150 metres on the approach from the Sainj valley.
Thui II, Chitral, from the north.
Rob Ferguson and Dave Wilkinson studying Mehrbani from the top of Snow Dome, Naltar valley, Gilgit.
Descending the Sat Marao glacier, Gilgit.
Mike Browne coping with a recalcitrant stove at high altitude.
Rob Wood at the helm.
David Williams – the worse the snow, the better he skis.
Laurie Wood and Skookum aboard the Quintano.
John Pirquet having a dip before breakfast in the wilds of Vancouver Island.
The author on the north face of the Droites. Photo: Dick Renshaw
Pennine Alps
Grahamland
Grahamland peaks climbed
Tien Shan
The Himalaya
Chitral
Hidden Valley
Gilgit
British Columbia
Over the Hills and Far Away
Rob Collister
First published in in 1996 by The Ernest Press. This digital edition first published in 2017 by Vertebrate Digital, an imprint of Vertebrate Publishing.
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