The June dip into the club journals this month reaches 1974. Members’ articles covered: exploring the North Pennines; a trip to a remote munro; a run of the new Coast to Coast path, from East to West; early British ascents of routes in the Eastern and Western Alps; and a Himalyan Peak.
I’ve chosen the latter, a trip to Himachal Pradesh and the second ascent of Phabrang, a peak of 6172m in the Lahul District, by a small team club team.
Fifty years ago the walk in went through villages with a self-sufficient way of life, not the situation now.
Read Jeff Mason’s article here. And this month you can have a BOGOF as John Allen’s report of the trip is available in the Himalayan Journal archives here.
For more information about the self sufficiency of Himalyan village life try Helena Norberg-Hodge’s book Ancient Futures, this describes Ladakh in the 70s and 80s and how the area changed with development, here’s a starting point.
Other pictures from the 1974 journal are below, in black and white only, and here’s a link to the journal.
