Planned for June 2016, Malcolm will again adopt a fast and light alpine style; which has yielded regular success throughout his career, including nominations for the prestigious Piolet D'Or for the first ascent of the West face of Vasuki Parbat (6,780m).
"Weāre setting off - āweā is myself and my climbing partner, Guy Buckingham ā to the Indian Himalayas to climb Gangstang, which is an absolutely gorgeous 6,100m classically beautiful, pyramidal peak in Himachal Pradesh.
"The aim of going there is to climb the first ascent, either of the North face or the North West ridge. Weāve got about a month out there with this whole unclimbed aspect of the mountain.
"Guy and I are really keen to climb in a low impact style. These are fragile environments weāre going into, so the fewer people you can take in there, the better. Thereāll just be the two of us climbing, a liaison officer, a cook and a cookās helper. Thatāll be the whole team.
Weāve seen distant photographs, but once we get there weāll reconnoitre the area and actually look at the routes weāre going to climb and decide the exact tactic that weāre going to use. So itāll be something between alpine style and done-in-a-day.
"The main reason we picked Gangstang is that thereās a beautiful unclimbed route there. Itās unclimbed routes that really motivate me, climbing faces, ridges, lines, that no one has climbed before. And Gangstang is a beautiful mountain but also itās got two superb unclimbed lines ā a razor sharp North West ridge that leads right up to the summit and also a lovely snow/ice North spur.
"Itās also in a part of the Himalayas that Iāve never been to. Iāve climbed a lot in the Himalayas but never been to Himachal Pradesh, so each part of the journey will be new, from when we leave Delhi, driving across the plains and the journey through the mountains. "