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Grants awarded: 2000
The following grants were awarded:
| Greenland 2000 - Tilman in a New Millennium | To sail from Scotland to the west coast of Greenland, and to climb some completely unclimbed rock walls. | £800 |
| Greenland 2000 - Watkins Mountains. International Female Expedition | To make ascents of peaks from the Upper Woolley Glacier; To explore an un-named glacier and attempt ascents of surrounding peaks. First all female ascent of Gunnbjorns Fjeld. | £1200 |
| British Lemon Mountains Expedition 2000 | To climb remote and unclimbed mountains; to take 3 people on first expedition and to give a series to slide shows on return to youth groups. | £1600 |
| Greenland Challenge 2000 | A crossing of the Greenland Icecap from Ammassalik to Kangerdlussuaq. | £1000 |
| Endless Summer 2000 | Environmentally motivated, self-reliant, mountain and marine circum-polar exploration of untrodden peaks, glaciers and waters of the Southern Ocean. | £1600 |
| British/American South Greenland 2000 | To make a first ascent of Agdlerussakasit east wall and a general exploration of, and first ascents of, mountains bounded by Kangikitsoq Fjord and Kangersuneq Qingordleq Fjord. | £800 |
| British Spitzbergen Crossing 2001 | First traverse of the island of Spitzbergen by a British team from Verlegenhuken in the north to Øyrlandet in the south. | £1600 |
| Evolutionary history of reproductive modes in the lichen-forming genus Porpidia (Ascomycota). (Edward Wilson Award) | To collect species of the genus and related allies to clarify the phylogenetic relationship and contribute to the knowledge of northern lichen flora. | £800 |