First-Hand Accounts of Historic Mountaineering Expeditions.

Maps

Pamirs Travel Map

Our travel route to the Russian Pamirs

Russian Pamirs 1974 Route

Russian Pamirs 1974 Route

Russian Pamirs Pik Lenin

Russian Pamirs Pik Lenin

Russian Pamirs Pik 19

Russian Pamirs Pik 19

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The following pages recount my personal impressions on mountaineering expedition in which I played a part in the period 1965-1981. On each of these expeditions I made a concerted effort to describe the activities on a daily basis. And although there are occasional gaps in my daily records, for the most part I managed to do this with remarkable consistency—remarkable in that I often was doing this with a ball-point pen in a 5”x8” lined record book, while sitting up in a tent at the end of a very demanding day. Read more...