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The club usually meets on a Wednesday during Oxford term time at the Gardeners Arms pub. This is where members can sign up to go on weekend 'meets'. Meets are organised climbing trips facilitated by the hire of a minibus and campsite. The club meets typically include overnight trips to Dartmoor, the
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The club is operated by committee – the executive (president, secretary, treasurer) is always made up from Oxford University Students but the wider committee roles are open to any members.
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on that expedition, Bourdillon was responsible for the oxygen apparatus, and Westmacott was in charge of keeping the dangerous passage through the
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a roped up pub crawl in the first weeks of term – where all attendees must negotiate the streets of Oxford whilst being tied to one another.
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Lake District and Cornwall and single day trips to the Wye Valley and Peak District. Alongside outdoor climbing trips the club organises:
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open. Bourdillon and Evans made the first attempt on the summit, on 26 May 1953, three days before the successful climb by
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was the first British climber to climb Everest without using an oxygen cylinder; he climbed to the
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and was a member of the OUMC at the time of his fatal attempt to climb
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The club has taken a significant part in the development of
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Index

Arnold Lunn
Balliol
mountaineering
United Kingdom
Andrew Irvine
Merton College
Everest
George Mallory
Tom Bourdillon
Charles Evans
Michael Westmacott
1953 British Expedition to Everest
John Hunt
Khumbu Icefall
Sir Edmund Hillary
Tenzing Norgay
Kangchenjunga
Stephen Venables
South Col
Kangshung Face
mountaineering expeditions
first ascents
Greenland
Himalayas
Karakoram
Kishtwar
Peru
Spitsbergen
Wakhan

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