Return of the award-winning series.
Seven films of early exploration introduced from the Royal Geographical Society by the pioneer
Antarctic explorer Duncan Carse.
1:Everest-First, Attempt (1922) d
Mount Everest is great and beautiful. Marvellously built: majestic, terrible.'climbers
So wrote one of the first climbers to stand beneath the peak of the highest mountain in the world. Yet these early pioneers were to get within 1,700 feet of the summit: bivouac through. a blizzard; get frost-bite and windburn; and at the end of their triumphs and tribulations, return with a classic fillm of early mountaineering.
Narrator ALEXANDER JOHN , Film editor KEN BERRY
Assistant producer DAWN A. SWERLING. Producer RICHARD ROBINSON