In summer 2012, Tom Codrington, Ian Cooper and Ian Faulkner from the Oxford University Mountaineering Club took on the Big Walls of the Karavshin in Kyrgyzstan.
Their sights were on a rare free-ascent of the enormous 1200m face of Pik 4810. This is their trip report.
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Great article and sounds like loads of fun. However someone needs to make a comment about student groups overcrowding honeypot crags and they were fixing ropes.
In reply to UKC Articles: Epic. Great article full of adventure. Nice to see that relative punters (7b+ traverse is definitely at the very limit of punter) can achieve such awe inspiring stuff.
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