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By Cath Davis
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The aim of AMA50 is to celebrate 50 years of Army Mountaineering Association achievements by show­ casing the range of activities undertaken by AMA members, the geographical spread achieved by AMA expeditions and our ability to offer new challenges to our members, no matter at what stage of moun­ taineering experience they may be. Each individual expedition has its own objective and an outline appears below. Overall, AMA50 will achieve the fol­ lo w in g :
Cover all activities
currently undertaken by our members:
Trekking
Rock Climbing
Big wall climbing
Ice climbing
Alpine mountaineering
Ski mountaineering
High altitude mountaineering Exploratory mountaineering
Achieve a broad geographical spread Europe - Greenland Americas - Canada Africa - Morocco
Asia - Tibet
Involve wide membership participation:
22 experienced members (including leaders).
18 intermediate members. 16 novice members
56 AMA members will be involved in the expeditions in total. It is important to note that even of the 22 experi­ enced members, by the nature of the projects chosen, bar the leaders, the majority will be operating at a level or in an environment that is new to them, and thus they too are being challenged.