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Three members of the Edinburgh University Mountaineering Club report on their recent expedition to the Torugart-Too mountains on the Kyrgyzstan – China border.

"The next day we hired horses from the local nomads, and with their help crossed the swollen river on horseback to reach our base camp. Hassan guarded the vehicle and we took it in turns to guard the basecamp..."

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=3006

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Sounds great, is the argos bivi tent the now legendary orange pro action tent?

In reply to gethin_allen: no its not. it is the soon to be legendary yellow and blue one or a black one.

i feel the article needs proof reading

In reply to gethin_allen:

We did use an Argos single skin dome for a bivi tent. You can see it as a dot pitched on the glacier beneath Adam in the last photo. It's black rather than orange, and we replaced the poles & pegs with more lightweight ones. Still hundreds of pounds cheaper than a "proper" bivi tent, and these argos Proaction tents are completely indestructible!

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I'm rather jealous, looks like you had a great time. Good effort, it's awesome to see reports of people doing this sort of thing.

In reply to gethin_allen:

It is this exact tent, although not that exact country:

http://www.spectral3d.co.uk/Personal/pics/2010/scotland_2010/scotland_2010/...

You even get the author posing next to it.

In reply to UKC Articles: Thats a really cool picture, where was it taken?

Where can I read more about these guys?? Are they sponsored??

Hmm, think the photo might be of Bein a Bhuird from near the head of the Slugain?

Al is right about the location, Beinn a'Bhuird from the south. You can read more about the expedition on our blog, there is a link to it at the bottom of the article...

We received some sponsorship to help with the costs of the expedition, without which there is a good chance we could not have gone, but we are not people who are sponsored to go climbing full time. We are amateur "weekend" climbers...