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134:(of the Alpine Club) and Slesser (of the SMC) received telegrams from the Soviets granting permission for a party of 12 British climbers to mount an expedition to the Pamirs, provided the two joined forces. Slesser said of this: "It was a bit like proposing that 87:(Evaluation of Capital Creation Options also referred to as the Enhancement of Carrying Capacity or Economic Coordination Options) model of an economy uses the stocks-and-flows paradigm (aka system dynamics) to track energy and other 80:. The author of more than 100 published technical papers, Slesser's books ranged from energy systems and the environment to exploration and sustainable development. 336: 412: 166: 104: 146:." In the event, Slesser and Hunt were joint leaders of the British party, which mounted a joint expedition with the Soviets with the goal of climbing 432: 83:
Slesser pioneered the study of the potential for economic growth that led to methods for estimating the economic carrying capacity through the
177:. It is suspected he suffered a heart attack. His family erected a cairn on the spot he died. (latitude 56°51.899’ N; longitude 05°46.195’W). 92: 150:. The animosity between the Scots and the English was exceeded by that between the British and the Soviets. Early on, two of the climbers – 442: 276: 305: 427: 422: 91:
flows through the economy. ECCO models were first developed by Malcolm Slesser in Edinburgh in the late 1990s along with
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Hainey, Raymond (29 June 2007). "Mountaineering scientist dies in clifftop plunge".
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Red Peak: A Personal Account of the British Soviet Expedition 1962
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The Pamirs expedition of 1962 was a difficult affair. Both the
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Index

Scottish
energy
analyst
scientist
mountaineer
University of Edinburgh
Arctic
private sector
academia
synthetic fibers
oil
nuclear
University of Strathclyde
ECCO
natural capital
Jay Baguant
Dr Anupam Saraph
Dr Wouter Biesiot
Dr Klass Jan Noorman
Alpine Club
Scottish Mountaineering Club
Pamir Mountains
Central Asia
Soviet Union
John Hunt
North
South Korea
nuclear bomb
Ismoil Somoni Peak
Robin Smith

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