Page 7 - 2005 AMA Winter

Editorial
T o echo the words of Cath Davies the AMA has again achieved a great deal, despite the current tempo of operations. The Journal which is the
visual and verbal record of these achievements aims to celebrate the success of our association, raise our profile amongst those with influence and hopefully provide some stimulus for those verging on the brink of a life in the mountains.
As always you the membership have provided me with some excellent articles and stunning photography. Thank you. With a membership of approximately 1000 a few more articles from non committee members and old faithfuls such as Tania Noakes and Ian Coomber would, however, be welcomed.
You will find that the Newsletter is now included as a “pull out” section of the Journal. Both Summer and Winter journals will now include the Newsletter, with the Spring and Autumn Newsletters still despatched individually. This will hopefully improve efficiency and save the asso­ ciation a fair amount of money. If you have any comments please feel free to address them to either myself or Steve Wilson the Communications Officer.
Cash Prizes
As announced at last year’s AGM, cash is now available to award those members who submit the best articles. The rather grandly named Editor’s Prize is a sum of £75 for each Journal. In the fashion of true career progres­ sion I was tempted to award this edition’s awards to the President and Chairman for their excellent articles. But no. Throw caution and career to the winds and many congratulations to Mark Kenyon and Ashley Stevens for their account of the QLR’s expedition to Nepal and to Darren Doyle for his record of JSAM.
If Mark, Ashley and Darren could let me know there current address then, as the saying goes - the cheques will be in the post.
Editor’s Apology
If you submitted an article for inclusion in this Journal (Rab Blackstock and John Muston plus others?) and it is not printed please accept my sincerest apologies. The joys of living in a service married quarter - fuse boxes arcing, power cuts and surges and quotes from electri­ cians such as “you’re lucky you didn’t have a fire here luv”. Anyway I suffered major computer meltdown a couple of weeks ago and lost everything. I'm now back on line so please resubmit for the Summer Journal.
PS. Surge protectors bought in a well known IT super­ store do not work very well.
Enjoy the summer and support your AMA. Howie Barnes
Deadlines for submission are 1st January and 1st June, Text should be sent electronically (floppy, CD or e-mail).
Photographs can be prints, slides or digital, where possible, always include captions for your photographs.
Submissions should be sent by post to: Maj H C Barnes (Howie)
S02 CSS
CAST(S)
Warminster BA12 ODJ
Or electronically to:
Journal@theama.org.uk
or on the military net to: LWC-CASTS-CSSS02
If you want your discs or photos back please let me know at the time of submission.
Remember that the AMA is a mountaineering club whose members are either serving or have served in the Army; it is not a military organisation. As such try to avoid the use of ranks and military TLAs (three letter abbreviations!) in your articles - you are not writing for your Corps or Regimental Journal.
Try to avoid tables in your articles.
Finally please do not regurgitate your PXR.
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