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WINTER 2022
CONTENTS
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M ARMY
MOUNTAINEER
AMA HQ
CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD .................................................... 5 EDITOR’S FOREWORD .......................................................... 5 PRESIDENT’S FOREWORD.................................................... 6 MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY FOREWORD ............................... 6 CHAIRMAN’S FAREWELL ..................................................... 6 LT COL PETE DAVIS RAMC ................................................... 7 60-SECOND INTERVIEW ...................................................... 8 AMA AGM 2022.................................................................... 9 PRINTED OR DIGITAL?.......................................................... 9 DIARY 2023.......................................................................... 9
GUEST WRITERS
JACO VAN GASS: ON TOP OF THE WORLD ......................... 12 AN ARCTIC ACCIDENT ........................................................ 13 CLIMATE CHANGE: THE GREENING OF THE ALPS............... 16
EXPEDITION NEWS
EXERCISE LYSEFJORD LAP ................................................ 20 EXERCISE DRAGON’S CLIMB ............................................. 23 THE SAPPER ALPS MEET IN A CHANGING ALPS................ 25 EXERCISE ITALIAN ODYSSEY ............................................. 27
MISC ARTICLES
COWS, BULLS AND OTHER CHALLENGES .......................... 29 CANADIAN OPPORTUNITIES...............................................31 EVEREST OR BUST!............................................................ 34 HOW TO BUILD YOUR FIRST TRAD RACK WITH DMM ........ 35
CLIMBING MEETS
NORTH WALES MEET ......................................................... 36 LUNDY ISLAND MEET......................................................... 38 PEAK DISTRICT MEET ........................................................ 40
BOOK REVIEWS.................................................... 42 PHOTO COMPETITION......................................44
CADETS
EXERCISE KNOYDART CHALLENGER.................................. 46
SKI MOUNTAINEERING
THE PATROUILLE DES GLACIERS ....................................... 48
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VIA FERRATA IN THE DOLOMITES
PATROUILLE DES GLACIERS
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ARCTIC TRAGEDY
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BACK IN BUSINESS 35 – AMA MEETS
BUILD YOUR OWN TRAD RACK
AMA
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ON THE COVER: (FRONT) TRAVERSING THE EIGER’S MITTELLEGI RIDGE IN THE SWISS ALPS
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(BACK) DENT DU GÉANT SW FACE (NORMAL ROUTE) AD – 10 SIGNAL REGIMENT EXERCISE TIGER BRITANNIA ENDEAVOUR (CREDIT: TARQUIN SHIPLEY)
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