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Asian Affairs

Volume 41, Issue 2, 2010

Special Issue:

MATTERHORNS OF TIBET

MATTERHORNS OF TIBET

DOI:
10.1080/03068371003747787
Mick Fowler*

pages 188-201

Available online: 03 Jun 2010

Abstract

An account of two separate expeditions to climb mountains in Tibet, which, while not among the highest in the world, offer a technical challenge equal to the Matterhorn – indeed they are roughly the same height (about 6,500 metres). The first expedition was to Kajaqiao, which the author, Mick Fowler successfully climbed with Chris Watts, the second, a couple of years later, was to Manamcho, which was climbed with Paul Ramsden. The article contains a wealth of detail about the technicalities of this sort of climbing.

 

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  • Available online: 03 Jun 2010

Author notes

  • Mick Fowler -

    Mick Fowler was voted “Mountaineers' Mountaineer” in the Observer magazine's “Experts' Expert” series. He completed the six Alpine North Faces with an ascent of the Eiger in 1980 and moved onto the greater ranges in 1982. He has been a regular visitor ever since with first ascents in Peru, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Kazakastan, Canada, Sichuan and Tibet. He is the author of two books: Vertical Pleasure (1985) and On Thin Ice (1995).

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