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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...turned 80 this past August, it celebrated the occasion with a landmark climbing expedition in the Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan. Now, the group hopes to carve its niche in posterity with some tributes of mountainous proportions. The club, which was the first American group to explore the Central Borkoldoy range of these mountains, is allowed to name all nine peaks they mounted, in accordance with mountaineering tradition. The names they have tentatively assigned range from Peak Harvard to Peak Adventure—with one peak bearing a title that holds sentimental value for one particular member...

Author: By Patrick JEAN Baptiste, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HMC To Name Nine Peaks | 10/14/2005 | See Source »

This August, Laursen and several other mountaineers will trek into the Central Borkoldoy Range of Kyrgyzstan, an area that had been closed to foreign climbers until the fall of the Soviet Union. Since then, only five expeditions have reported visiting the range...

Author: By William L. Jusino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: From Cambridge To Kyrgyzstan | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

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