The Club has periodically arranged expeditions to the Greater Ranges. Expeditions are listed in the Mountaineering Expeditions section of our Archive. Treks both with and without mountaineering objectives are listed in the Mountain Meets and Treks sections of the Overseas Meet Reports archive.

The most recent trek with mountaineering objectives was to Bolivia in 2024, where a guided ascent of Huayna Potosi was made. This was the fourth in a series of YRC meets in the Bolivian Andes.  Whereas the previous ones in the Apolobamba (1988), central Cordilleras Real & Cocapata (1999), and Quimsa Cruz (2010) were exploratory, the first two making first ascents, this fourth one visited more-easily accessed, higher peaks closer to La Paz. You can read more in the Meet Report.

Since 1995, the club has arranged seven Himalayan meets to Nepal, Ladakh, Bhutan and Sikkim, four were treks and three were treks with mountaineering objectives.

The most recent was a camping trek in Eastern Nepal to Kanchenjunga’s South and North Base Camps in 2018.

This image shows Kabru (7412m), Rathong (6682m) and Koktang (6147m) peaks towering over our camp in the ablation valley beside the lateral moraine of the Yalung glacier above Ramche and close to the South Base Camp. The next day, we trekked along the top of the moraine to Oktang, a large chorten with its tridents, bells, oil bowls and the ashes of holy juniper fires, beneath lines of fluttering prayer flags, where a sizeable landslip beyond prevented any further progress towards the South Base Camp.

You can see more images and read more about this beautiful trek in the Meet Report.