In this documentary first broadcast in 1993, Chris Bonington looks back at the first ever expeditions to conquer Mount Everest and the effect that the achievement of climbing the mountain had on climbing as a whole worldwide.
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Cast
Chris Bonington
self, narrator
Doug Scott
self
John Barry
self
Peter Boardman
self (archive footage)
Joe Tasker
self (archive footage)
Don Whillans
self (archive footage)
Reinhold Messner
self (archive footage)
Peter Habeler
self (archive footage)
Mick Burke
self (archive footage)
George Finch
self (archive footage)
Paul Braithwaite
self (archive footage)
Pierre Mazeaud
self (archive footage)
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