Page 3 - 2013 AMA Spring

LIFE ON THE LEDGE
YOU MIGHT BE A MOUNTAIN
CLIMBER IF...
• You own a £75 dress suit and a £1000 Gore-Tex suit.
• You have ever frozen your lips to an ice screw while blowing an ice plug at your partner.
• You have ever used an ice axe to chop weeds in the garden.
• A Mexican bus driver has ever had to open his window because of the way you smelled.
• You have more summit pictures than wedding pictures.
• You’ve ever had icicles hanging from any part of your face.
• You can pronounce Popocatepetl correctly more than once in a row.
• You’ve ever fallen so far that you’ve run out of adrenaline before you ran out of rope.
• You like the smell of burning yak dung.
• Your suncream is always in a solid state when you need it the most.
• What you call cold is not on the thermometer scale.
• When you hear the words ‘nose’, ‘captain’ or ‘aid’, your hands start hurting and swelling.
• You arrive at a climbing gym with stoppers and friends still in your bag.
• You don’t walk down stairs, you rappel
• You’ve used an ice axe to clean off the front steps in winter.
• And finally, you understood all the previous lines. If you even laughed, you should get back to work... “
Appointments 2
Foreword 3
AMA Discounts 4
Diary 5
Expedition ALPINE EAGLE 6
Exercise TIGER CLAW 9
Exercise HIMLUNG HIMAL 10
Photo Competition 16
Exercise ILLIMANI SUNRISE 18
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Red Snows 20 ARTICLE
Exercise BOLIVIAN VENTURE 22 Exercise ALPINE EMU 25 Exercise COCKNEY ALTA VIA 27 Exercise NORTHERN CORSE 30 Exercise TIGER LUNDY LEAP 32
On the cOver –
Members of the QDG on the Mont Blanc Massif.
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