Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). "The Conquest of Mt. Everest," with Alpinist Sir Edmund Hillary...
...Conquest of Everest. A heart-stirring camera record of the 1953 expedition that fought foot by foot to the top of the world's highest mountain (TIME...
...Conquest of Everest. A heart-stirring camera record of the 1953 expedition that fought foot by foot to the top of the world's highest mountain (TIME...
...CONQUEST OF EVEREST (300 pp.)-Sir John Hunt-Dutton...
...foot virgin summit, although at least six men got within the last, breathless 1,000 feet. What was needed to conquer it? That was the question facing Colonel John Hunt in the autumn of 1952, when he took the leadership of a British climbing expedition. In The Conquest of Everest, Mountaineer Hunt gives a cleanly written, technician's answer, and describes the behind-the-scenes planning that led to victory...