First Everest conquest remembered

Title

First Everest conquest remembered

Genre

Press conference

TX Date

24 May 1993

Year of production

1993

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Duration

00:10:14

Description

Three linked clips. At the Royal Geographical Society in Kensington, London Sir Edmund Hillary and Lord John Hunt give a press conference as the first successful British trip to the summit of Mount Everest 40 years ago is remembered and following journalist Rebecca Stephens becoming the first British woman to climb the mountain. Audio quality varies. 1. Women climbers in 1953 and today.2. Ecological problems in the mountains.3. Would Hillary climb Everest again?

Contributors

John Hunt; Edmund Hillary

Keywords

Pollution; Women; John Hunt; Environment; Climbing; Mountaineering expeditions; Mountains; Mount Everest; Mountaineers; Mountaineering; Anniversaries; Edmund Hillary; Rebecca Stephens; Tenzing Norgay

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