Plot Summary:Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were immortalized when they became the first humans to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953. But the Himalayas had gripped adventurers from around the world throughout the twentieth century and many were determined not just to reach its summits, but to capture the mountains on film.
Between the 1920s and the 1960s the world's great powers sent vast military-style expeditions to conquer the peaks of the Himalayas, with Everest at their head. This was a great game played - camera in hand