Everest - Blood, Sweat and Tears

In this documentary first broadcast in 1993, Chris Bonington looks back at the first ever expeditions to conquer Mount Everest and the effect that the achievement of climbing the mountain had on climbing as a whole worldwide.

Documentary Adventure

Chris Bonington

(self, narrator)

Doug Scott

(self)

John Barry

(self)

Peter Boardman

(self (archive footage))

Joe Tasker

(self (archive footage))

Don Whillans

(self (archive footage))

Reinhold Messner

(self (archive footage))

Peter Habeler

(self (archive footage))

Mick Burke

(self (archive footage))

George Finch

(self (archive footage))

Paul Braithwaite

(self (archive footage))

Pierre Mazeaud

(self (archive footage))

Nick Estcourt

(self (archive footage))

Adrian Burgess

(self (archive footage))

Pertemba Sherpa

(self (archive footage))

Rebecca Stephens

(related character)

Harsh Vardhan Bahuguna

(related character)

Tom Hornbein

(related character)

Jim Whittaker

(related character)

Norman Dyhrenfurth

(related character)

Andrew Irvine

(related character)

Edmund Hillary

(related character)

John Hunt

(related character)

Raymond Lambert

(related character)

George Mallory

(relate character)

Tenzing Norgay

(related character)

John Noel

(related character)