Adventures in high places (WOR 01)

• Day and time: Tuesday 15:25 - 16:25
  Weekly
• Length of course: 1 term. Autumn (3 Weeks)
• Number of places: 30
• Start date: 14 November 2023
• Description:

  This course consists of a series of three lectures: Week 1: Exploring and climbing in unmapped Kashmir and the Hindu Kush: the golden age of student expeditions in the 1960s. Week 2: Going for the top in Tibet and Nepal: Cho Oyu, Shisha Pangma and Putha Hiunchuli. Week 3: Forced marches in the Karakoram, Ladakh, India, Nepal and Bhutan: the Grand Himalayan traverse.

• Format: Lecture

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• Tutor: Henry Edmundson
  
• Henry Edmundson has explored, climbed and trekked in the wider Himalaya since 1965. He has written a widely praised book on the region called "Tales from the Himalaya".

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