Hillary and Hunt on Everest
- Title
- Hillary and Hunt on Everest
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 24 May 1993
- Year of production
- 1993
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- Duration
- 00:07:40
- Description
- Angela Rippon interviews Mount Everest climbers Sir Edmund Hillary and Lord John Hunt from the Royal Geographical Society in Kensington, London for LBC Drivetime following journalist Rebecca Stephens becoming the first British woman to reach the summit and as this week marks the 40th anniversary of their first successful ascent. Comment on their expedition including who actually reached the summit first, now revealed not to be Sherpa Tenzing; and the number of people now making the climb.
- Contributors
- John Hunt; Angela Rippon; Edmund Hillary
- Keywords
- China; Women; John Hunt; Journalists; Climbing; Mountaineering expeditions; Mountains; Mount Everest; Nepal; Tibet; Mountaineers; Mountaineering; Anniversaries; Drivetime (radio programme); Himalayas; Edmund Hillary; Rebecca Stephens; Royal Geographic Society; Tenzing Norgay
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