THE MOUNTAINS
Three Summits. One Instinct.
Mont Blanc with borrowed gear in 1975. Trisul at 7,120m in 1979. Shivling Base Camp from 1986. The mountains were not a counterpoint to the work. They were the same discipline in a different environment.
MONT BLANC · 4,808M · 1975
Mont Blanc
The first serious summit. Borrowed gear. Randy Jones. 1975. The instinct that defined everything that followed. At 21, without training, without equipment of my own — the mountain did not care about any of that.
Mont Blanc summit, 1975 — with Randy Jones. [PLACEHOLDER — Priority 3 in retrieval list. Replace with scanned photograph from Delhi archive.]
TRISUL · 7,120M · 1979
Trisul
The first seven-thousander. Tony English. One of the most technically demanding peaks in the Garhwal Himalaya. The summit photograph is in Delhi — it will appear here and on the homepage hero when retrieved from the archive.
Trisul summit, 7,120m, 1979 — with Tony English. [PLACEHOLDER — Priority 2 in retrieval list. This photograph also goes on the homepage hero.]
SHIVLING BASE CAMP · 6,543M · 1986 ONWARDS
Shivling
Multiple expeditions from 1986. Rescue and safety work. The mountain that became a sustained relationship rather than a single summit. Photographs from the Delhi archive will form a small gallery here.
Shivling expeditions, 1986 onwards. [PLACEHOLDER — multiple photographs, Priority 5 in retrieval list.]
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