<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf8" /> <title> Basecamp mess tent 1978 </title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/main2.css" /> </head> <body> <div class="centre"><img src="../images/bc78.jpg" width="600" height="375" vspace="10" alt="" /></div> <p>The impoverished mainly-undergraduate expedition of 1978 produced its base camp mess tent from a tent-frame which someone was throwing out and a 24 foot square sheet of heavy gauge polythene. This made a splendid place to watch the Austrian thunderstorms but also formed the most effective fly and wasp trap base camp has ever had.</p> <p class="caption">Photo © A.E.R.Waddington, 1978</p> <!-- Photo scanned from 19-year-old FP4 negative at 600x375 --> <hr /> <!-- LINKS --> <ul id="links"> <li><a href="../handbook/bcamps.html">Base Camps</a></li> <li><a href="../index.htm">Back to Expedition Intro page</a> <ul> <li>Back to <a href="../handbook/fester.html">Expo Festering Guide</a> <li><a href="../areas.htm">Area/subarea descriptions</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="../../index.htm">Back to CUCC Home page</a></li> </ul> </body> </html>