Spectrum 439. Because it's still there

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Year
1983
Reference
21203
Media type
Audio
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Rights Information
Year
1983
Reference
21203
Media type
Audio
Duration
00:36:52
Broadcast Date
31 May 1983
Credits
RNZ Collection
Jack Perkins, 1940-, Producer
Edmund Hillary, 1919-2008
Tenzing Norgay, 1914-1986
Keith Jacka Holyoake, 1904-1983

In 1953, it was announced that Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing had reached the summit of Mount Everest. Spectrum looks back on that historic first ascent. It looks forward too, at the changes successive expeditions have brought to the Sherpa people, and the Himalayan environment.