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The Race for Everest
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The Race for Everest

May 27, 2003
1h 0m
★ 0.0

Overview

The dramatic story of the British expedition that made the first ascent of Everest. Combining interviews with the surviving members of the 1953 British and 1952 Swiss attempt on Everest with rare archival material, this film tells the story of the race to climb Everest in the early 1950s and its climax in 1953.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

BBC
BBC Documentaries
ZDF

Cast

Edmund Hillary

Self (archive footage)

Edmund Hillary

John Shrapnel

Narrator

John Shrapnel

Tenzing Norgay

Self (archive footage)

Tenzing Norgay

Peter Jackson

Self - Reuters Correspendent

Peter Jackson

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