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The Conquest of Everest (1953) is an inspiring and adventurous documentary that follows a team of explorers on their remarkable journey to scale the world’s highest peak. The Conquest of Everest (1953) highlights themes of determination, teamwork, courage, and personal growth as the climbers overcome challenges and demonstrate resilience in pursuit of their goals. With breathtaking visuals, memorable moments, and captivating storytelling, The Conquest of Everest (1953) offers an educational and motivating viewing experience. Perfect for audiences who enjoy true adventure stories, character-driven journeys, and films that celebrate exploration, perseverance, and the human spirit.
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00:07:18Il a fait une expédition de reconnaissance.
00:07:21Il a donné beaucoup de connaissances de l'apprentissage de l'apprentissage
00:07:25et surtout de l'apprentissage de la grande valley qui s'appelle l'Ouest.
00:07:32Une toute importante reconnaissance.
00:07:36L'année prochaine, 1952, les Suisses attempted l'apprentissage.
00:07:40Le bleu de l'honneur shows où ils ont.
00:07:43Ils ont très haut, mais avec la souffrance.
00:07:48En octobre 1952, Colonel John Hunt
00:07:51was called over from Germany to lead a new British expedition.
00:07:55He was summoned by a joint committee
00:07:57of the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club.
00:08:01And here he received his briefing.
00:08:04As quickly as possible, he must select a team,
00:08:06about a dozen of the very best climbers.
00:08:08And as quickly as possible, he must equip that team
00:08:11with the very best possible equipment.
00:08:14A project like this means a vast amount of planning and testing.
00:08:21What most needed checking and double checking was oxygen.
00:08:26for no apparatus hitherto had filled the bill upon Everest.
00:08:31Committees conferred, experts devised,
00:08:34and the climbers themselves played the role of guinea pigs
00:08:37in a decompression chamber at Farnborough
00:08:40where the air is pumped out and pumped out
00:08:43till breathing becomes very difficult.
00:08:46As difficult as if you were on Everest.
00:08:51There is a gauge showing the equivalent altitude.
00:08:56Here is pure, a search doctor, using himself as a specimen.
00:09:01His oxygen mask is off.
00:09:04He is exposed to anoxia.
00:09:06The air is getting thinner and thinner.
00:09:09At such heights, when you are lacking oxygen,
00:09:12you may think you are normal.
00:09:15But you are not.
00:09:16No, not normal.
00:09:18You are moving in a dream.
00:09:20A dream that deludes and debilitates.
00:09:25Pew is now, as it were, at the very summit of Everest.
00:09:29He is approaching unconsciousness.
00:09:36Also tested at Farnborough was a new material for tents.
00:09:39Extremely light and 100% windproof.
00:09:42A kind of nylon cotton.
00:09:44To prove it was windproof, it was tried out in a wind tunnel.
00:09:48In a gale of 100 miles an hour.
00:09:50Which is what you meet when you get to the shoulder of Everest
00:09:54where this expedition is going.
00:09:56The wind never stops up there.
00:09:59Howling through the gap between the peaks.
00:10:14A climber climbs with his guts, his brains, his soul, and his feet.
00:10:22For boots, as for all other items,
00:10:24many firms were consulted and many tests carried out.
00:10:28In the cold chamber at Farnborough,
00:10:30a scientist puts the boots through it.
00:10:33A known boot, white, is compared with an unknown, black.
00:10:37Rations.
00:10:42In 1952, British climbers in the Himalayas decided that tins were a nuisance.
00:10:48So for this expedition, something quite new was used.
00:10:51A method known as backpacking.
00:10:54All the airs removed from your ration,
00:10:57and you are left with a packet which is both very light and waterproof.
00:11:01and it can stand up to hammering.
00:11:04Such a packet does not look edible, but open it.
00:11:08Let in the air again, and what have you got?
00:11:11You've got sugar.
00:11:14Everything had to be thought of.
00:11:17There will be wide crevasses, therefore let there be ladders.
00:11:21But let them be of aluminium.
00:11:24Yet however good the equipment,
00:11:29and however meticulous the plans,
00:11:32the goddess mother of the world,
00:11:34as the Tibetans called her,
00:11:36can only be conquered by men.
00:11:43Here now is Hunt trying on his boots in England.
00:11:46He is going to climb a long way.
00:11:49This was Hunt's problem.
00:11:59St. Paul's is 365 feet high,
00:12:03one fourteenth part of a mile.
00:12:06The highest mountain in the British Isles is Ben Nevis.
00:12:10The highest mountain in Europe is Mont Blanc.
00:12:28The highest mountain in the world is five and a half miles high.
00:12:40The expedition reaches Nepal.
00:12:54Crate upon crate,
00:12:56bale upon bale of equipment.
00:12:59There are no roads into Nepal.
00:13:01It all had to come by cable railway.
00:13:10The capital city of Nepal is Kathmandu.
00:13:34It was here that the expedition assembled.
00:13:37It was here that the march would start.
00:13:40Few Europeans have ever been to this city.
00:13:43It lies cut off from the rest of the world by mountains.
00:13:56There are no roads into Nepal,
00:13:57but there are roads inside it.
00:13:59So if you're in Nepal and you want a jeep or a steam roller,
00:14:02you've just got to carry it in.
00:14:07The end of the ride...
00:14:43For to both Hindus and Buddhists, the Himalayas are sacred.
00:14:48Shiva and Vishnu, Brahma and Buddha, they all live side by side here.
00:15:13The British Embassy, and here the climbers meet the Sherpas who will carry their loads on the mountain, led by that great Sherpa, Tensi.
00:15:28With Hunt is Major Charles Wiley, who being an officer of Gurkha's, can speak to the Sherpas in Nepali.
00:15:36This meeting is the first milestone.
00:15:40Another milestone. Tensi now meets Hillary.
00:15:44Then Hunt and Tensi and Wiley go into conference.
00:15:49The march is about to start and there is much to discuss.
00:15:52There are 15 tons to be shifted across a very difficult country.
00:15:57It is for Hunt to explain the points of the route to Everest.
00:16:01We are now at Kathmandu, here.
00:16:06The march to the base of Everest is about 175 miles.
00:16:12All the way from Kathmandu to Everest, there are great mountain ridges cutting across our path.
00:16:18The Kathmandu is only about 4,000 feet above sea level.
00:16:23The foot of Everest is about 18,000.
00:16:26In the camp outside Kathmandu, the expedition gets ready to start.
00:16:34Tensi is wearing his lucky Swiss hat.
00:16:40And here is Hillary with his homemade skiing cap.
00:16:44350 additional porters have been engaged from the people of the valley.
00:16:52The porters load up.
00:16:54The latest in tents or sleeping bags, portable radio equipment, beverage boxes or oxygen cylinders,
00:17:01ladders or ropes or boil suites or pemmican.
00:17:04So off they go on the first long lap.
00:17:07But what they are carrying also is a dream that is turning ripe.
00:17:12Oh, thank you.
00:17:13That's all.
00:17:20si is our village.
00:17:21Keep your eyes forward.
00:17:23Put your eyes forward.
00:17:24Here is your word.
00:17:24Keep our eyes full.
00:17:25Put your eyes forward.
00:17:26Fourth time.
00:17:26Take it.
00:17:26This is your word.
00:17:34Chees-ky ladders on the throne.
00:17:36Question 2.
00:17:36Question 1
00:17:37On the screen.
00:17:37diving in back.
00:17:37CroAmericanborg sees and rec butterflies.
00:17:38πε Ringing in back.
00:17:39Bye.
00:17:39Question 3.
00:17:40Question 2.
00:17:40Quite well.
00:17:41quarAmerican walks.
00:17:41Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:18:11Gorge after gorge, gorge after ridge, and hot, hot work for all.
00:18:20It is still many miles, many days, many buckets of sweat to the snow world.
00:18:41The roof of the world is bare, but the eaves beneath it are lush.
00:18:56Up above may be crags and ice.
00:18:59Here there are seas of rhododendrons.
00:19:03Yes.
00:19:04Yes.
00:19:05Yes.
00:19:06Yes.
00:19:07Yes.
00:19:08Yes.
00:19:10Yes.
00:19:11All of them bound for a cold, white world.
00:19:41All of them bound for a cold, white world.
00:20:07How many days to Everest?
00:20:09This bridge was reached in the morning after a four hours march, four hours, and four
00:20:15or five thousand feet, a steep drop down through the pine trees.
00:20:20It was just about time for breakfast.
00:20:27A Sherpa cook is frying to patties.
00:20:42Four hours marching before breakfast makes even campfire cooking taste good.
00:20:47And a pint of tea for George Lowe and his climbing partner, Hillary, makes life seem reasonable
00:20:56once more.
00:21:01But Wilfred Noyce, schoolmaster, has work to do.
00:21:05He's also a writer.
00:21:08The march continues and so does the lush vegetation, but the lushness will not be for long.
00:21:28For ahead and above lies the Sherpa's own country.
00:21:34The stony cradle of a rugged clan.
00:21:49Hail the jewel in the lotus.
00:21:53This is the prayer that was written upon those flags.
00:21:56A prayer much used in this country.
00:21:59For at last, this is the country of the Sherpas.
00:22:17When they come to a sacred wall, they always pass it on the left, for their prayer is carved
00:22:22upon it.
00:22:24Hail the jewel in the lotus.
00:22:31No, the lushness was not for long.
00:22:35These are the foothills of the Himalayas, foothills that are bigger than many ordinary mountains.
00:22:40A bare, craggy land, sharply ridged and steeply gorged.
00:22:47A land thrust upwards by subterranean violence and carved by wind and weather.
00:22:55Every day now, the world grew higher about them.
00:23:10Higher and more elemental.
00:23:14And the water under the bridges grew colder and colder.
00:23:18This one crosses a river called the Dukosi.
00:23:21The name means the milk river.
00:23:23In the monsoon, its waters are white from the snows of Everest.
00:23:28Like all the bridges in this country, this one looks unsafe.
00:23:32But the Sherpas have seen to that.
00:23:35It carries a prayer flag on it.
00:23:40The river is stochastic.
00:23:43The river is still in, and it carries a prayer flag on it.
00:23:49The river is still in the sky, and the river is still in the snow.
00:23:53It carries a prayer flag on the river.
00:23:56The river is still in the mountains, and the river is also in the mountains.
00:24:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
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00:25:10The Sherpas are part traders and part farmers...
00:25:14...and they live very high and very hard...
00:25:17...but they are a cheerful, hospitable people...
00:25:20...fond of singing and dancing and laughing...
00:25:24...a mountain people and semi-nomadic.
00:25:28One family may have four houses.
00:25:31The lowest house, perhaps merely 9,000, for winter.
00:25:36From there you move up to grow your potatoes or barley...
00:25:40...both very hardy crops, like the people who grow them.
00:25:44They have come now to Tangboche, the last outpost.
00:25:52The boxes and bales have arrived.
00:25:56And the porters from Kathmandu have now done their bit and can go.
00:26:00Some of them are feeling a cold, for the height is 14,000.
00:26:04...
00:26:14...and off they go back to the ordinary world below.
00:26:16From here to the foot of Everest, the carry will be done by Sherpas.
00:26:22Each member of this expedition has his special job or jobs.
00:26:34Pew, for instance, is here to do medical research.
00:26:38But he also is in charge of messing.
00:26:44And Hunt himself is not only leader and planner...
00:26:47...he is also the expedition's treasurer.
00:26:50Gregory is their official photographer...
00:26:52...and deals with the postal arrangements.
00:26:55Mytel Ward is the expedition's doctor.
00:26:58He will also help Pew with his research.
00:27:00Plan's special job is wireless, with meteorology thrown in.
00:27:04Each of these climbers has to do more than climb.
00:27:07It's colder here.
00:27:12Low has acquired a warm hat, such as they wear in Tibet.
00:27:16And once again they put on their oxygen equipment...
00:27:22...complete with cylinders this time.
00:27:25Now is the time for practice and testing...
00:27:28...and acclimatization.
00:27:30In the next few weeks they must become extra efficient...
00:27:33...and extra and ultra fit.
00:27:36But these goings on seem strange to the natives of Tang Boche.
00:27:42Hunt tests out his portable wireless.
00:27:45On the mountains there will be a series of camps.
00:27:47Those camps must keep in communication with each other.
00:27:51Tom Bordillon is in charge of the oxygen equipment.
00:27:59But a letter from England is, at this moment, more important.
00:28:03The Monastery of Tang Boche is peaceful amongst the mountains.
00:28:18Beyond this are merely the elements to encounter which requires both faith and discipline.
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00:49:49le pionniers were low
00:49:51et angnaima
00:49:53at first they made
00:49:55good progress
00:49:57but living there night after night
00:49:59they worked slower day
00:50:01after day
00:50:05they did not know it themselves
00:50:07but the altitude was weakening them
00:50:09for they were very high
00:50:11above the cool
00:50:19progress on the loads they face grew slower
00:50:41and slower
00:50:49from the two camps in the coom
00:51:01camp five is the dots
00:51:03in the left hand bottom corner of the picture
00:51:05the others still looked
00:51:07upwards
00:51:15at last John Hunt came up
00:51:17to see what was causing the delay
00:51:19the reasons were only
00:51:21too clear
00:51:23newly fallen snow made the going very difficult
00:51:25but far worse than that
00:51:27was the strain on the lungs
00:51:37on the loads they face without oxygen
00:51:39no one can move at all fast
00:51:41to move at all
00:51:43is something
00:51:45one slow step
00:51:47at a time
00:51:49and every step
00:51:51an achievement
00:51:53breathing is now the first and last reality
00:52:13breathing is now the first and last reality
00:52:17the time was running out
00:52:33the original estimate
00:52:35was three or four days
00:52:37at the end
00:52:39of nine days it was still not done
00:52:41and there was still over
00:52:43a thousand feet to go
00:52:45the next day
00:52:47the next day
00:52:49Hunt had sent up reinforcements
00:52:51Ward and a Sherpa
00:52:53but they too found the job difficult
00:52:55the weather continued very bad
00:52:57the weather continued very bad
00:52:59they would set out in the morning
00:53:17thinking that they were all right
00:53:19and start the long drag up the steep snow slopes
00:53:23but within the first hour or so
00:53:25they would tire
00:53:27and have to turn back
00:53:29But the familiks
00:53:31are really just
00:53:43with that
00:53:44they are not able to catch
00:53:45in the winter
00:53:55L'Hima, a spent nine days on the Lhotse face
00:53:58and pioneered a large part of the route.
00:54:03But altitude was crippling them.
00:54:07And in the end, their attack ran down
00:54:09and they descended.
00:54:25The time was running out.
00:54:36We had now established our intermediate camps
00:54:39above Camp 4.
00:54:41But we had still not broken through to the South Col.
00:54:46The time factor was becoming critical.
00:54:49We had spent ten days on the Lhotse face,
00:54:52considerably more than I'd reckoned on,
00:54:55route or no route.
00:54:57Hunt then made a decision.
00:55:00He sent off Noyce to try and reach the South Col.
00:55:03At the same time,
00:55:05two groups of Sherpas stood by with their loads
00:55:07high on the Lhotse face.
00:55:10The Sherpas stood by and Noyce went up and up.
00:55:14He had only one man with him, the Sherpa Anilu.
00:55:17But they were both using oxygen.
00:55:21Oxygen was precious, but time was even more so.
00:55:25Their progress was hard to follow,
00:55:274,000 feet up through the clouds.
00:55:30And then they were spotted,
00:55:45almost on the call itself.
00:55:46and the watchers below knew that the way was open.
00:55:51The great lift was on.
00:55:53and the aph SRC 환us was gracefully given the Light.
00:55:57And then,
00:55:58he was really good.
00:55:58He was a gun,
00:55:59and the one was by the beneficiary of the River in the Anilu.
00:56:01The Wanted
00:56:03and the Belfield
00:56:05would put rain on the water,
00:56:08and there was no way that they could swim.
00:56:10The aphatic region
00:56:11was a fun place.
00:56:11With dinner now
00:56:12the cat
00:56:21Sous-titrage MFP.
00:56:51Ten steps and they'd bend over their ice axe and pant, and pant, and pant.
00:56:58Ten steps and they'd flop down in the snow, exhausted.
00:57:03But the Sherpas had guts.
00:57:05The Sherpas were often dragging themselves along on their hands and knees, battling against the effects of height.
00:57:26Some of them were out on their feet, weaving and gasping.
00:57:32But with tremendous heart, they got to the South Col and dropped their loads.
00:57:38Down below, they prepared for possible victory.
00:57:46Now, at last, the time has come for assault.
00:58:06The first assault team is Bordillon and Evans.
00:58:10Bordillon is busy preparing, giving special attention to oxygen.
00:58:15Both he and his father are scientists, and between them, they have developed a new apparatus.
00:58:21At the same time, Hunt sets off for the South Col, to lead the support party for the first assault.
00:58:30This party will help with the equipment and all last-minute preparations.
00:58:35It will also stand by for emergencies.
00:58:37Bordillon and Evans are adding the finishing touches.
00:58:42Evans is a very cool head, and knows the Himalayas well.
00:58:47Bordillon is an expert rock climber, a man of exceptional strength.
00:58:53They are both very fine climbers, and they have need to be.
00:58:59They have a tough job ahead of them.
00:59:07Bordillon and Evans had one primary mission.
00:59:37to reach the South Summit, and see what lay beyond it.
00:59:42They would start from Camp 4, and go up to the South Col, spending a night there at Camp 8.
00:59:52They would then go straight for the South Summit.
00:59:55If they reached it, and conditions were perfect,
00:59:58they could then go on, and attempt the final peak of Everest itself.
01:00:03These operations overlap.
01:00:07Lowe and Gregory are already preparing to support the second assault team.
01:00:12That team will consist of Hillary and Tensing.
01:00:15Tensing, who at this moment is helping them.
01:00:17This support party will move off first.
01:00:22They will all be together on the call.
01:00:24Gregory and Lowe, and Hillary and Tensing.
01:00:27Tensing, who, possibly alone of the Sherpas,
01:00:30regards the ascent of Everest as not just a job, but an ideal.
01:00:36Everything now is in order.
01:00:38The support party moves off.
01:00:41The support party moves off.
01:01:08Now for the second assault team.
01:01:17Hillary and Tensing.
01:01:19The plans for the second team are different.
01:01:22The first team, Bordillon and Evans, may conquer Everest,
01:01:26though it's a very long chance.
01:01:27But provided they make a successful reconnaissance,
01:01:31the odds are that Hillary and Tensing,
01:01:34following in their steps,
01:01:35but starting from a higher camp,
01:01:37will reach the summit itself.
01:01:40They say goodbye, and all good wishes follow them.
01:01:44The wishes of all the Sherpas,
01:01:45and all New Zealand.
01:01:47The wishes of all the world.
01:01:49As the last climbers were reaching the call,
01:02:15they looked up and saw two minute figures.
01:02:19Bordillon and Evans disappearing over the south summit.
01:02:25The south call, camp eight, 26,000 feet.
01:02:29A very hard place to get to,
01:02:32and a very hard place to live in.
01:02:42The south call is nearly as high as Annapurna,
01:02:46then the highest mountain ever climbed.
01:02:49They say the south call is like the moon,
01:02:54a place that is outside man's experience,
01:02:57a place that has the smell of death about it.
01:03:00A very hard place.
01:03:03Life on the call is dominated by cold,
01:03:08by lack of oxygen,
01:03:09by the wind.
01:03:10It was on this desolate sea,
01:03:15the wind above all,
01:03:15by the wind.
01:03:16The wind above all,
01:03:17by the wind.
01:03:17It was on this desolate spot that they waited for Bordillon and Evans.
01:03:30At about half past one,
01:03:45they'd been seen on the south summit,
01:03:46but the wind had risen again,
01:03:48and they'd been lost in the clouds.
01:03:50About half past three,
01:03:53they were sighted again,
01:03:54coming down.
01:03:55It took them three hours,
01:03:57two little dots on the ridge,
01:03:59before they arrived at the call.
01:04:01They were coming in,
01:04:05moving very slowly,
01:04:07sitting down every hundred yards or so,
01:04:10and then getting up and trying again.
01:04:14Hillary went out to meet them,
01:04:16and they told him that they had reached the south summit,
01:04:20500 feet from the top.
01:04:40John Hunt came out and congratulated them,
01:04:44and they told him of the difficulties of the final ridge.
01:04:50Then tensing met them,
01:04:59and wiped the snow and ice from their faces,
01:05:02and he fed them with hot drinks.
01:05:12Their eyelashes were iced up,
01:05:15their eyebrows covered with snow,
01:05:17and the pieces of hair hanging from the front of their helmets
01:05:21were draped with icicles.
01:05:34Moving very slowly
01:05:36over the south call homewards.
01:05:38It is eleven hours since they set out this morning.
01:05:44The call is a hard place,
01:05:47but they had been somewhere much harder.
01:05:49They had been higher that day
01:06:10than any climbers before them
01:06:12in the whole history of climbing,
01:06:14only 500 feet lower than the summit of Everest itself.
01:06:22Tomorrow it's Hillary and tensing,
01:06:25provided the weather holds good.
01:06:27May the 27th was a wasted day.
01:06:41A day spent in what?
01:06:43In thinking?
01:06:44The south call is no place for thought.
01:06:47Most of the time on the call,
01:06:49a man hardly thinks at all.
01:06:52When he does,
01:06:53he usually thinks what bliss it would be
01:06:55to get down again.
01:06:57Down from this blighted and wind-ravaged
01:07:00chunk of the moon,
01:07:01where everything stops but the wind,
01:07:03and even inside their sleeping bags,
01:07:06men feel eternally cold.
01:07:09The south call takes away everything.
01:07:24It takes away a man's appetite.
01:07:26It also takes away his sleep,
01:07:29unless he's using oxygen.
01:07:32Worst of all,
01:07:33it takes away his judgment.
01:07:35Hillary and tensing
01:07:36will need all their judgment tomorrow.
01:07:38when they set out up that ridge,
01:07:42if the storm subsides.
01:07:43will need all their troyables.
01:07:46And the wind is Witch.
01:07:48If you really kaç,
01:07:49we have very good shadows.
01:07:51If you are just alive,
01:07:53we won't be by Everybody is looking for
01:07:54to stand on guard or Allı Acosta.
01:07:57there.
01:07:58Please and behold,
01:08:00Kansas,
01:08:02another half of all people
01:08:03in the talons.
01:08:05The extra few trees
01:08:05will be able to find
01:08:06nothing out of all.
01:08:06And every one ofools
01:08:07is,
01:08:09it's inflowed.
01:08:10And all dead
01:08:11Sin on energy
01:08:12olan clouds,
01:08:42And on their way they will pick up yet further loads
01:08:45Dumped by Hunt and Anamgal two days previously
01:08:49That will make 60 pounds each
01:08:52It used to be said that at this height
01:08:5615 pounds was the maximum
01:08:5815 or 50
01:09:00This height remained depressing
01:09:12Here we go
01:09:19C'est parti !
01:09:49Hillary, Tenzing, Gregory, Lowe, and Ang Nima was to get as high as they could on the mountain and there establish a light camp. Here, Tenzing and Hillary would spend the night and attack the summit next day.
01:10:07Gregory, Lowe, and Ang Nima had returned, exhausted. Ang Nima came on in front. Gregory behind him kept sitting down. Lowe had gone ahead to Camp 8 where he fetched his camera.
01:10:25The wind had been bad and they had spent a heartbreaking day and had come down without oxygen from the highest camp ever on a mountain. A very remarkable feat.
01:10:39Gregory took about ten minutes to cover the last 50 yards. Moving along a bit and then crumpling down and resting.
01:10:59Tired, exhausted, but successful. They had carried the supplies that made the assault possible.
01:11:15The sun goes down on Everest. The two who are up in Camp 9 will snatch what sleep they can. And tomorrow, May the 29th...
01:11:33On May the 29th, down in Camp 4 in the Coombe, everyone waits for the outcome.
01:11:40Pew walks up and down restlessly. Hunt looks upwards.
01:11:44But Pew soon has a distraction. The Sherpa, Dan Amgal, has come down from the South Col.
01:11:57He is the Sherpa who went up with Hunt three days ago to dump the first supplies for Camp 9 at well over 27,000.
01:12:06They had come back without oxygen through driving snow very slowly.
01:12:13Now, Dan Amgal is sick and suffering slightly from frostbite.
01:12:21Dan Amgal will be up and about again in a day or two.
01:12:28But in the meantime, everyone's thoughts are on what is happening on that knife-like ridge running up to the summit.
01:12:36But the climb today is beyond the reach of human eye. Almost beyond imagination.
01:12:51The time goes very slowly. Where had they got to? The answer was they had passed the South Summit and were well on the way towards the peak of Everest itself.
01:13:05Two very small men cutting steps in the roof of the world.
01:13:17On the right, there were tremendous fingers of ice hanging over this great Gengcheng face about 18,000 feet high.
01:13:24And we had to keep off those because if you step on a cornice, it gives way under you and precipitates you down the face.
01:13:31We were starting to slow down a bit, getting a little tired.
01:13:35And I think we were almost getting a little desperate in our seeking for the summit.
01:13:42Well, I cut round the back of one ridge and round the back of another ridge.
01:13:46And the summit never seemed to be coming any closer.
01:13:49And, but finally, I cut round the back of another one and saw that the ridge ahead dropped steeply away.
01:13:56So I looked up and there was a little rounded cone above us and I knew it was the summit.
01:14:03All that was needed was a few more blows with the ice axe and Hillary and Tenzing stood on the summit of Everest.
01:14:26Next day in the coombe, they were all waiting anxiously.
01:14:42Then three small dots appeared in the middle of the Lhotse face.
01:14:47They were Hillary, Tenzing and Low.
01:14:51Hunt looked up and saw them.
01:14:55But he could not see whether they had lost or won.
01:14:58They came down, roped together, with Low in the lead.
01:15:02Let's do it right.
01:15:05Let's do it.
01:15:06Let's do it.
01:15:07Let's do it.
01:15:12Let's do it.
01:16:44Only two men in the world have reached that height on their feet
01:16:48One of them born in New Zealand
01:16:51The other born under Everest
01:16:55These are the men
01:17:12The men who paved the way to victory
01:17:16Up above, 7,000 feet higher is where these two were yesterday
01:17:39And why did they climb it?
01:17:44They climbed it because it is there
01:18:22...
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