1993 - Penine Alps Expedition Photos

Thanks to James More for providing these images and text...

An important part of the expedition was the training weekends leading up to the actual trip itself. These helped the team to learn, and bond, and allowed us to become familiar with each others little character quirks - important when you're going to spend two weeks in the mountains together!
This pic is from the 93 Cairngorm training weekend, and shows a bit of impromptu survival bag sledging. Not sure why it never made it to the winter olympics!

Ian and Graeme Robinson checking the map on a refreshment stop.

These last two are of two fine expedition traditions! The Geog-Ex party took place on the middle Saturday night of the trip. Each person brought something for the party, so we had some tasty biscuits, or hot chocolate drinks, or such like. Each tent performed a song or sketch for the party, and we always managed to find some wood somewhere to have a fire - great times!

The other is the end of expedition:Tent drying, usually taking place, as here, on a station platform, or in a town square. I'm pretty certain that there were times this happened when the tents were already bone dry, but had to be done, so that Ian could say we'd done it. If memory serves me right, I think on this occassion the Italian rail workers were on strike (again), and the railways were being run by the army, which lead to us explaining to a couple of soldiers, with rifles over their shoulders, just what it was we were up to!