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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.

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=5145

In reply to UKC Articles: Awesome!

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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.

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Amazing.

I love the idea of 3 cash strapped students who'd never done it before going for a goal like that - and doing it.

Well done guys. Memories for a lifetime from that trip.

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Awesome adventure!

This is unbelievably impressive.

In reply to UKC Articles: Well Done guys, really inspiring.

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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yep...inspiring boys!

In reply to UKC Articles: Super gnarly! Good effort!

Looks like awesome rock, are there easier routes in the area?

In reply to UKC Articles: Seriously impressive, all that time Ian C spent at Brookes 'revising' clearly paid off!

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Oh man I am so glad I lost my bet with Rob regarding the end result of this trip. Well done.

In reply to zach.stone:

Hah, what did Rob bet? There isn't that much easier free-climbing but you could certainly find fun stuff to do if you were prepared to aid more of it.

Thanks all for the comments, they're very encouraging!

Tom

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Great effort, well done

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Epic! Well done guys. Thanks for the write up and pleasure to read.