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.
Allen Jewhurst
Director

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)
Everest66%
14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible73%
Valley Uprising77%
The Art of Flight78%
Mountain69%
Maidentrip70%
The Dawn Wall80%
Sherman's March67%
Explorer: The Last Tepui75%
The Alpinist78%
Our Planet: Behind the Scenes76%
The Class of ‘9271%
Downloaded64%
Meru74%
Free Solo78%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
180° South72%
One Life75%