Following in Tilman’s footsteps: my own ascent of Lhakpa Ri

July 29, 2026 Trip reports bill tilman, everest, ian cartwright, jagged globe, lhakpa ri, mark dickson, tibet 0 Comment

I climbed Lhakpa Ri on 11 May 2007 as part of a commercial expedition by UK mountaineering operator Jagged Globe. This follow up to my last post about the first ascent by Bill Tilman and Edmund Wigram features an excerpt from my diary describing my own ascent 72 years later.

Tilman and Wigram’s first ascent of ‘Gardefui’, now known as Lhakpa Ri

July 15, 2026 History bill tilman, edmund wigram, eric shipton, everest, first ascents, history of mountaineering, lhakpa ri, maurice wilson, mountain literature, tibet 3 Comments

I’ve recently finished reading Mount Everest the Reconnaissance 1935 by Tony Astill. The book was interesting to me because it described the first ascent of 7,045m Lhakpa Ri by Bill Tilman and Edmund Wigram, a peak that I climbed myself in 2007.

5 of the silliest mountain firsts

September 3, 2014 Humour aconcagua, andes, ben nevis, britain, charity challenges, cho oyu, chris darwin, edmund hillary, everest, first ascents, guinness book of records, hill walking, himalayas, huascaran, lhakpa ri, nepal, norman croucher, peru, snowdon, tibet 2 Comments

With the news that a man climbed Snowdon pushing a brussels sprout with his nose, I thought it would be a good time to take a look at what other silly things have been done on mountains. So here are some of the world’s more improbable first ascents.