Friday, April 9, 2010

A Slice of History




I have enclosed the historic British documentary about the climbing of Everest in 1953. As we all know Hillary and Tenzing were successful, however this documentary is a must see for it is the archetype of the nationalistic, expedition style climbing that followed. Moreover, this is the documentary format on which all subsequent expedition slideshows, lectures, books, and movies was patterned after.