FEEDING THE RAT EXPEDITIONS – K2 NORTH SIDE, TIBET CLIMBING & THIRD POLE EXPEDITIONS

FEEDING THE RAT EXPEDITIONS

NEW & OBSCURE ROUTES,
FIRST & WINTER ASCENTS,
5000 TO 8000m

KARAKORAM NORTH, TIBET &
INNER ASIA

2025/26 EXPEDITIONS BOOKING NOW

"There are those, I believe, who image that the number of unexplored and unclimbed mountains is fast running out; that given reasonable peaceful conditions, quicker and cheaper transport, in a generation or so, half a century at most, all the peaks of the world will have been scaled, and that, even in the more remote ranges, mountaineers wishing to tread new ground will have to 'invent' new ways of approach. That must indeed be a gloomy prospect. But I defy even the most pessimistic mountaineer to travel far in the highlands of Central Asia and still hold that view. He may come to wonder, as I have wondered, whether in a century and a half of mountaineering, one-tenth of the summits of the world have as yet been reached."

- ERIC SHIPTON, MOUNTAINS OF TARTARY, 1950

SUMMER EXPEDITION K2 GASHERBRUM BROAD PEAK XINJIANG KARAKORAM KUNLUN

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FINDING THE RAT

THE STUFF OTHER COMPANIES AREN’T TELLING YOU ABOUT

XINJIANG EXPEDITION INNER ASIA GOBI CLIMBING

THE WILDEST PEAKS ON EARTH

K2 KARAKORAM NORTH SIDE RIDGE GASHERBRUM EXPEDITION CHINA

UNTOUCHED 8000m CLIMBING

TIBET CLIMBING EXPEDITION FIRST ASCENT NEW ROUTE

THOUSANDS OF QUIET PEAKS

FEEDING THE RANT

THE FEEDING THE RAT EXPEDITIONS READING LIST

“THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK, AND READ BEFORE YOU THINK”
– FRAN LEBOWITZ

X-RATED EXPEDITIONS.

ALL THE EXPERIMENTATION, EXPLORATION, AND EXTREMISM OF EXPEDITION CLIMBINGS EXTENSIVE PAST BRINGS US TO THIS WINDOW IN TIME, TO EXTRAPOLATE THE EXAMPLE OF EXEMPLARY EFFORT, AND PULL OFF THE MOST EXCELLENT ASCENTS THAT CAN POSSIBLY EXIST

EXPEDITION HIGH ALTITUDE CLIMBING TRAINING ENDURANCE 8000 METERS PREPARATION

TIME ON YOUR FEET, TIME ON YOUR ARMS. EXPEDITION ENDURANCE

“YOU DO NOT RISE TO THE LEVEL OF YOUR GOALS, YOU FALL TO THE LEVEL OF YOUR SYSTEMS”.
IT IS EXACTLY 6 MONTHS TILL OUR NEXT HIGH ALTITUDE EXPEDITIONS STEP OFF, AND EVERY DAY DIVERTED FROM PREPARATION WILL BE FELT INTENSLEY WHEN OUT THERE. DAYS NOW DETERMINE ENTIRE WEEKS AND MONTHS LATER IN THE PROCESS, DICTATING THRESHOLDS IN CAPACITY, CONFIDENCE AND FIDELITY OF PLANNING.
PROCEED WITH CAUTION.

NEW – SUMMER EXPEDITIONS TO XINJIANG. KARAKORAM, SHAKSGAM & THE KUNLUN

YEARS IN THE MAKING, WE HAVE BEEN GRANTED PERMISSION TO CLIMB IN THE RANGES OF SOUTHERN XINJIANG OVER SUMMER. LONG ONLY OPEN TO ELITE TEAMS, WE HAVE THE GO AHEAD FROM THE XINJIANG MOUNTAINEERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BIG NAMES LIKE K2 AND THE GASHRBRUM GROUP, AS WELL AS VIRTUALLY UNLIMITED 6000m TO 7000m FIRST ASCENTS. THESE ARE THE LAST HIGH ALTITUDE AREAS FREE OF THE EFFECTS OF TOURISM, OPEN ONLY TO SMALL TEAMS AND DEDICATED EXPEDITIONS

THINK MORE

NEEDING THE RAT

UNIQUE GEAR FOR OUR UNIQUE EXPEDITIONS

ELITECLIMB MORPHO TOOLS REVIEW. AS GOOD AS TOOLS GET

MALACHOWSKI SUPER ULTRALIGHT SLEEPING BAGS REVIEW. THE FINEST SLEEPING BAGS POSSIBLE

PARBAT PACKS. ACTUALLY GAME-CHANGING

FOR OUR EXPEDITIONS WE COLLABORATE WITH

ELITECLIMB SAMAYA OUTERU SNOW LEOPARD TRUST PARBAT MALACHOWSKI VAPRO AIRTRIM

That’s why I like feeding the rat. It’s a sort of annual check-up on myself. The rat is you, really. It’s the other you, and it’s being fed by the you that you think you are. And they are often very different people. But when they come close to each other, that’s smashing, that is. Then the rat’s had a good meal and you come away feeling terrific. It’s a fairly rare thing, but you have to keep feeding the brute, just for your own peace of mind. And even if you did blow it, at least there wouldn’t be that great unknown.

Mo Anthoine in Feeding the Rat, by Al Alvarez

FEEDING THE RAT EXPEDITIONSNEW & OBSCURE ROUTES, FIRST & WINTER ASCENTS,5000 TO 8000m KARAKORAM NORTH, TIBET & INNER ASIA 2025/26 EXPEDITIONS BOOKING NOW