By Ian Hall Damn! I wish I had my binoculars. My camera had also packed in the night before. Short of sitting on my specs I couldn’t have been more optically challenged. I needed a camera to photograph those mountains. Ever since I interviewed Doug Scott for a school essay aged 14 I have been [...]

“…the adventure seemed to hinge around Graham’s old pal Zim, his Drascombe Longboat and some unclimbed sea cliffs in South Uist”

‘There’s a new route from Kampung Melangkap’ said Jasirin my mountain guide friend. My interest was piqued immediately ‘Have many people done it?’ I enquired ‘Yes lots’ he replied. I was deflated. ‘But only villagers’ he added. My imagination took off again and for some reason the word Melangkap got caught in the mesh of [...]

First published in The Scottish Mountaineer magazine in October 2003 ***** ‘That was blatant exhibitionism!’ scolded Ali. She was right of course. We were driving back through Rothiemurchus forest, retelling our heroic deeds and glorying in the evening sunlight through the trees. After all we had just climbed Hellfire Corner and needed to get our [...]

My meeting with Prof Ho is documented at Arkitrek under the post of his name. Another fascinating thing for me about Prof. Ho is that he was a member of the 1964 Mt Kinabalu East Expedition during which Prof. E J H Corner of Cambridge University made the third ascent of Kotal’s Route to the [...]