P 20,700 and P 21,750, near Kongur. I led twelve schoolboys on a mountaineering expedition to the very west of China, also accompanied by six recently left “Old Boys” of the school and one woman, Fiona Blake. Base Camp was established at 13,000 feet beside the Karakoram Highway, the new road linking China with Pakistan. We undertook mountaineering, ornithological and botanical projects. First Marc Heading, Dominic Vincent, Robert Taylor and I and then Malcolm Harrison, Giles Hammersley and Mike Logsdon made separate ascents of P 20,700. Both groups climbed the main glacier flowing west to get onto the north ridge, which took us to the summit. The mountain was first ascended by Chris Bonington and Alan Rouse during their reconnaissance expedition in 1980 prior to climbing Kongur in 1981. P 21,750 was ascended by Harrison, Vincent and Guy Smith. They climbed the west ridge setting up a camp at 17,000 feet and a snow hole at 19,400 feet. Both mountains were climbed from an advance base camp at 15,000 feet.

Jonathan Lee, Oundle School, England