Submitted by Nigel Bernard on Fri, 07/10/2020 - 10:03
The first ascent of Everest in 1953 by Hillary and Tenzing was an epochal moment in mountaineering history. The news of the ascent lit up the gloom of the post-war world and was a fitting start to the reign of Elizabeth II, the news reaching London and the rest of the British Commonwealth on the eve of the Coronation. But the ascent would not have been achieved if a way had not been found to ascend a vertical cliff in the death zone … To find out what happened read, Vertical Climb in the Death Zone - Sir Edmund Hillary and the First Ascent of Everest, the fifth story in the gripping weekly serial, Into Danger with the Adventurers - Twelve Epic Lives of the Twentieth Century.
