Word: edelweiss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...succeeded, where five others had failed, in reaching the top of the world's highest mountain (29,002 ft.). The film has the distinction of being splendidly photographed (by Thomas Stobart and George W. Lowe of the expedition) in conditions where photography is about as easy as gathering edelweiss in an avalanche. It has also been intelligently edited, with a generally well-imagined musical score by British Composer Arthur Benjamin and a simple, sufficient narrative commentary written by British Poet Louis MacNeice...