Conquest of Everest
Revisited 1953 - 2003
1 x 50 minute episode
What drove the men who risked and lost their lives
to conquer the world’s highest mountain for Britain? Fifty
years on, Penny Mallory, whose ancestor, George Leigh Mallory lost his
life on the mountain, tells the story of this extra-ordinary adventure,
undertaken with primitive equipment in often terrifying weather
conditions against an unstable, brooding and lethal adversary - Mount
Everest. Did Mallory in fact reach the summit 29 years before Hillary
and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay? Mallory’s frozen body was found in
1999. Using authentic footage of the ascent we revisit this
unique adventure fifty years on, alongside the men who pitted their
wits and lives for the privilege of being the first to say that they
had stood on the roof of the world.
© Eagle Media Productions 2004
