In 1999 we followed the first expedition to climb the Pamir mountains in central Asia.
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9 August: Time to go home2 August: A nomad's funeral, more peaks climbed 1 August: Contact with nomads, weasels in the yurt and more climbing ahead 26 July: Naming mountains - with something to celebrate 22 July: Dangerous conditions, but two more peaks to scale at the weekend 19 July: Nearing the peak of the first mountain 15 July: 15km from the mountains 14 July: First sight of the mountains 12 July: Base camp in Tashkent Written reports
30 July: Bad weather hampers climbers' progress28 July: Six feet short of the highest peak
On Saturday, Paul Deegan stopped six feet short of the highest Eastern Pamirs peak ever climbed. 19 July: Mountaineers scale remote peak 15 July: 15km from the foot of the mountains 14 July: First sight of the 'daunting and spectacular' mountains 12 July: Warm welcome in Tashkent Reports from the paper
British explorers scale unexplored peaksHow it started
British climbers target last great unexplored peaks
2 July: British mountaineers last night announced plans to set foot on an unexplored mountain range which has seen fewer people than the surface of the moon.
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