George Craig - Everest

Fifty years ago Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay achieved what has been the Holy Grail of the world’s mountaineers for almost seventy years – reaching the summit of Mount Everest.

Everest charts the world fascination with the great mountain, from its discovery in the nineteenth century through the early expeditions, the tragic disappearance of Mallory and Irving in 1924 the euphoria of Hillary and Tenzing’s successful summit which was announced on Queen Elizabeth in Coronation Day in 1953, the riddle of the Abominable Snowman and the astonishing discovery of Mallory’s body in 1999, right up to the most recent triumphs and tragedies.