Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research SFAR

Mount Everest on a visually stunning map published by the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research, with its reverse side showing the summit area enlarged and overprinted with various ascent routes, plus a history of first ascents by different routes between 1953 and 1990.

The Swiss Foundation For Alpine Research's map of Garhwal Himalaya East is centred on Nanda Devi; this is a finely-drawn contoured map in one colour.

The Swiss Foundation For Alpine Research's map of Garhwal Himalaya West is beautiful black and white map with brown relief shading which gives excellent topographical coverage of the area north-east of Dehra Dun and Massuri to the Tibetan border.

A very general physical map of Bhutan with bold hill shading in shades of grey indicating the relief. The map shows glaciers, peak elevations, passes, rivers, lakes plus main settlements with connecting roads and tracks. Latitude and longitude margin ticks are at 1° intervals. Map legend is in English.

Karakoram on a set of two ridge-type maps at 1:250,000 from the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research providing an overview of the mountains from Gilgit and the Khunjerab Pass eastwards to the southern point of the Shyok River.

Produced with photographic data taken from the shuttle Columbia, this map covers the far north-eastern corner of Nepal. Relief-shaded, it has contours at 200m intervals and spot heights. Glaciers, forests, buildings and trails are marked. Despite its space-age origins, this is a fairly basic map.

A4-size mini-map, in brown and white only, of the area north of Abi Gamin, extending south so it just includes the summits of Abi Gamin and Kamet.

Folded map with excellent topographical relief shown with a vertical contour interval at 100ft. Spot heights are given for major peaks. Natural features & vegetation shown. No roads or habitation on area of map. Because of the amount of snow/ice the general colours of the map are shades of a pleasing light-blue. Nice to look at and practical to use. So if you do get yourself lost (you shouldn't with thi...

Sikkim Himalaya on a detailed 1:150,000 map from the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research, with its monochrome presentation providing, on close inspection, far more detail than on other, more colorful maps.