Everest - Blood, Sweat and Tears
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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Chris Bonington
self, narrator
Doug Scott
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)
Pierre Mazeaud
self (archive footage)
Harsh Vardhan Bahuguna
related character
Tom Hornbein
related character
Jim Whittaker
related character
Norman Dyhrenfurth
related character
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