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BEYOND THE EDGE
“It’s not the mountain we conquer – but ourselves.” ~ Sir Edmund Hillary
Exactly 60 years ago on May 29, 1953,for the first time, two men stood on the top of the
world. As news of their conquest of Mt Everest filtered out, the world was already in a mood
to celebrate as Queen Elizabeth the 11 prepared for her Coronation on June 2.
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“BEYOND THE EDGE”
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OF PHOTOGRAPHY RICHARD BLUCK EDITOR TIM WOODHOUSE
SCREEN STORY BY MATTHEW METCALFE AND LEANNE POOLEY PRODUCED BY
MATTHEW METCALFE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY LEANNE POOLEY
expedition leader and a physician, set off for the south summit using Bourdillon’s
innovative closed-circuit oxygen equipment. Unfortunately, at the south summit they
realised that they would not be able to reach the summit due to lack of time and
failure of the closed-circuit apparatus. They had no choice but to return defeated, to
Camp 8.
On May 28, the second assault party chosen by Hunt, comprising of Edmund Hillary
and Tenzing Norgay made their bid. Together they set off, establishing Camp 9 at
8,503meters (27,900 ft) before spending a bitterly cold night trying to sleep during
the coldest and windiest weather of the expedition thus far. Tenzing later described
the night, “The winds grew even stronger than usual. When light came it was
roaring like a thousand tigers”. At 4 a.m. they began preparations for the day ahead.
Pushing off at 6:30 am and using open-circuit oxygen equipment they steadily
climbed. Remarkably reaching the south summit at 9 a.m. they carried on into the
great unknown.
As Hillary later stated: “I continued hacking steps along the ridge and then up a few
more to the right … to my great delight I realised we were on top of Mount Everest
and that the whole world spread out below us”. It was 11.30 a.m. on May 29, 1953.
Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary had reached the highest point on the earth.
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SIR EDMUND HILLARY: brief biography of a great New
Zealander, Mountaineer, Explorer, Philanthropist,
Humanitarian and Legend.
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary was born in New Zealand on the 20th of July 1919 and
passed away in Auckland on the 11th of January 2008.
Ed was a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE), Knight of the
Order of the Garter (KG), Member of the Order of New Zealand, (ONZ) and a
recipient of India’s second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, which was
awarded posthumously in 2008. He was a much loved New Zealand mountaineer,
explorer, humanitarian, philanthropist and an international legend.
Ed became interested in mountaineering while in High School and in 1939 he made
his first major climb reaching the summit of Mount Ollivier, a 1,933m (6,342 ft)
mountain in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand.
He served as a navigator in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II.
Prior to the successful 1953 Everest Expedition, he had been part of the British
reconnaissance to Everest in 1951 as well as an unsuccessful attempt to climb Cho
Oyu in 1952.
Following his ascent of Everest, Ed founded the Himalayan Trust that went on to
build many schools and hospitals in impoverished Nepal.
In 1958 Hillary reached the South Pole overland and subsequently reached the
North Pole, making him the first person to reach both poles and the summit of
Everest (often referred to as the ‘third pole’).
Ed grew up in Tuakau, south of Auckland, in New Zealand. Unbelievably, the young
man who later grew to be 6’ 5” was initially smaller than his peers at school and was
often bullied. He attended Auckland Boys’ Grammar School, which was a daily train
journey, two-hours each way. He took the opportunity to read and gained
confidence by learning to box. His interest in climbing began at age 16 and Ed found
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he was physically strong and had great endurance. He studied mathematics and
science at the University of Auckland and in 1939 completed his first major climb.
He and his brother Rex became beekeepers, a summer time job that enabled him to
climb in winter. Hillary climbed ten other peaks in the Himalayas between 1956 and
1965.
Soon after the ascent of Everest he married Louise Mary Rose. They had three
children: Peter (born in 1954), Sarah (born in 1955) and Belinda (1959-1975). In
1975, while en route to join Ed, in the Phaphlu where he was building a hospital, his
wife Louise and youngest daughter Belinda were killed in a plane crash near
Kathmandu.
In 1989 he married June Mulgrew, the widow of his close friend Pilot Peter Mulgrew
(who was killed in an airplane crash at Mt Erebus, Antartica, in 1979).
Sir Edmund Hillary’s famous profile is on the New Zealand five-dollar note.
In 2005 he was named by Reader’s Digest as New Zealand’s most trusted individual,
beating an Olympic Gold Medalist cyclist Sarah Ulmer and multi Academy-Award ®
winning film director Sir Peter Jackson.
When Sir Edmund Hillary passed away in hospital in 2008 at the age of 88, his death
was announced by NZ Prime Minister, Helen Clark. She stated that his death was a
“profound loss to New Zealand”. The nation came to a stand still during this state
funeral, which was held on 22nd of July 2008.
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TENZING NORGAY – Legendary Sherpa and Mountaineer
Tenzing Norgay was born the eleventh of thirteen children in May of 1914. His
parents named him Namgyal Wangdi, but a Buddhist lama later suggested he change
it to Tenzing Norgay ("wealthy and fortunate follower of the teachings"). The exact
date and circumstances of his birth are disputed. Although in his autobiography,
Tenzing claims to have been born in Nepal to a Sherpa family, it seems more likely
that he was born in the Kharta Valley of Tibet. When the family's yaks died in an
epidemic, his desperate parents sent Tenzing to live with a Nepalese Sherpa family as
an indentured servant.
At 19, Tenzing Norgay moved to Darjeeling, India, where there was a sizable Sherpa
community. There, the British Everest expedition leader Eric Shipton noticed him
and hired him as a high-altitude porter for a 1935 reconnaissance of the northern
(Tibetan) face of the mountain. Tenzing would act as a porter for two additional
British attempts on the northern side in the 1930s, but this route would be closed
off to westerners by the 13th Dalai Lama in 1945.
Along with Canadian mountaineer Earl Denman and Ange Dawa Sherpa, Tenzing
snuck over the Tibetan border in 1947 to make another attempt on Everest. They
were turned back at about 22,000 feet (6,700 meters) by a pounding snow-storm.
In 1950, China invaded Tibet and asserted control over it, strengthening the ban on
foreigners. Luckily, the Kingdom of Nepal was beginning to open its borders to
foreign adventurers. The following year, a small exploratory party made up mostly of
Britons scouted the southern, Nepalese approach to Everest. Among the party were
a small group of Sherpas, including Tenzing Norgay, and an up-and-coming climber
from New Zealand, Edmund Hillary.
In 1952 Tenzing joined a Swiss expedition led by the famous climber Raymond
Lambert, as it made an attempt on Everest. Tenzing and Lambert got as high as
28,215 feet (8,599 meters), less than 1,000 feet from the summit, before they were
turned back by bad weather.
In 1953 another British expedition, led by John Hunt, set out for Everest. Tenzing
Norgay was invited to put a team of 20 Sherpas together and was later hired as a
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mountaineer, rather than as a Sherpa guide - an indication of the respect his skills
engendered in the European climbing world. It was Tenzing's seventh Everest
expedition.
Tenzing and Ed quickly learned to respect one another as mountaineers. Tenzing
even saved Ed’s life in the early stages of the 1953 expedition.
The two were roped together, making their way across the ice-field at the base of
Everest, the New Zealander leading, when Ed jumped a crevasse. The icy cornice he
landed on broke off, sending the lanky mountaineer tumbling down into the crevasse.
At the last possible moment, Tenzing was able to tighten the rope and prevent his
climbing partner from smashing onto the rocks at the bottom of the crevasse.
Push for the Summit: The Hunt expedition made its base camp in March of 1953,
then slowly established eight higher camps, acclimatising themselves to the altitude
along the way. By late May, they were within striking distance of the summit.
The first two-man team to make the push was Tom Bourdillon and Charles Evans,
on May 26, but they had to turn back just 300 feet short of the summit when one of
their oxygen masks failed. Two days later, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary set
out at 6:30 am for their attempt.
Tenzing and Hillary strapped on their oxygen masks on that crystal-clear morning,
and started kicking steps into the icy snow. By 9 am they had reached the South
Summit, below the true summit. After climbing the bare, 40-foot vertical rock now
called the Hillary Step, the two traversed a ridge and rounded the last switchback
corner to find themselves on top of the world.
The newly-crowned Queen Elizabeth II knighted Edmund Hillary and John Hunt, but
Tenzing Norgay received only the British Empire Medal rather than a knighthood. In
1957, the Indian Prime Minister threw his support behind Tenzing's efforts to train
South Asian boys and girls in mountaineering skills and provide scholarships for their
studies. Tenzing himself was able to live comfortably after his Everest triumph, and
he sought to extend the same path out of poverty to other people.
After the death of his first wife, Tenzing married two other women. His second wife
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was Ang Lahmu, who had no children of her own but looked after Dawa Phuti's
surviving daughters, and his third wife was Dakku, with whom Tenzing had three
sons and a daughter.
On May 9, 1986, Tenzing Norgay passed away at the age of 71. Different sources list
his cause of death as either a cerebral brain hemorrhage or a bronchial condition.
Thus, a life-story that begins with a mystery also ends with one.
Tenzing Norgay's Legacy: "It has been a long road...From a mountain coolie, a
bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in
planes and worries about income tax." ~ Tenzing Norgay. Of course, Tenzing
could have said, "From a child sold into servitude," but he never liked to talk about
the circumstances of his childhood.
ED and TENZING – Immortalised forever in history
It was an incredible day on the summit of Mt Everest, 60 years ago, on May 29 1953,
when two humble men fulfilled a dream. After years of dreaming and seven weeks
of climbing they became the first to people ever stand on top of the world!
When four days later – on June the 2nd – the news of Everest’s crowning glory finally
reached the UK, the Commonwealth and the world, it was on the very day of
Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation.
The news was greeted by millions of people already in the mood to celebrate, as
Queen Elizabeth II was about to ascend the throne as the new monarch of the
British Empire.
All this exciting news was a tonic for a beleaguered world that in 1953 was still
reeling from the aftermath of the Second World War that ended only 8 years
earlier. In the United Kingdom it was a sobering and somber time - rations still
existed and times were tough. The Coronation and the conquest of Everest
entwined as events that excited and elated the world.
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Ed Hillary, an extremely strong man towering 6’5” (195cm), and the powerhouse
that was Tenzing Norgay, a 39-year-old Sherpa from Nepal – a self confessed ‘simple
man of the mountains’ – had together achieved the ‘impossible’ and became
immortalised in history forever.
Further notes: When Hunt and Hillary returned to Kathmandu a few days later they
discovered they had been promptly knighted. Tenzing, a Nepali citizen of India, was
granted the George Medal of Great Britain. Famously – when Sir Edmund
descended the mountain the next day, he greeted his close friend and fellow New
Zealander George Lowe with ”Well, George, we knocked the ‘Bastard’ off!”
HUNT’S BRITISH EVEREST EXPEDITION OF 1953 – the first
confirmed ascent of Everest
A new British party led by Colonel John Hunt was established in 1953 and marked
Britain’s 9th attempt at Everest. With Hunt were the pick of 11 of England’s best
mountaineers and two from New Zealand, one of whom Edmund Hillary had been on
both the 1951 Everest reconnaissance and the Cho Oyu expedition of 1952.
The party totaled over 400 people, including the 11 English and two New Zealand
mountaineers – (Ed Hillary and George Lowe). Tenzing Norgay was invited to join,
and helped pick and eventually lead the Sherpa team of 20 experienced men. (Norgay
was attempting Everest for the 6th time and was considered the best-known Sherpa
climber and one of the world’s leading mountaineers).
There were 362 porters who were vital to the success of the expedition as they
collectively carried the party’s 10,000 lbs of baggage.
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The Dangers of Climbing the Highest Mountain in the World
Before Hillary and Tenzing, the world didn’t know if a man could survive at the top
of Everest. While BEYOND THE EDGE doesn’t dwell on the issues such as the
contentious debate following so many failed attempts and loss of life in earlier
expeditions – such as was it literally worth the risk of life and limb – the producers were
mindful to present the dangers the climbers faced, which can’t be underestimated in
todays world.
Climbing Mt Everest is extremely dangerous. Besides the freezing weather (which
puts climbers at risk of extreme frostbite) and the obvious potential for long falls
from icy cliff faces and into deep crevasses, climbers of Mount Everest suffer from
the effects of the extreme high altitude, often called "mountain sickness."
At high altitude the human body struggles to get enough oxygen to the brain and is
put under great distress, which causes a condition called hypoxia. Any climber who
climbs above 8,000 feet could get mountain sickness and the higher they climb, the
more severe the symptoms might become. Most climbers of Mt Everest suffer from
headaches at the very least, thoughts can become cloudy which impacts on decision-
making. They also suffer from a lack of sleep, severe fatigue and no appetite.
If a climber hasn’t acclimated properly, then acute signs of altitude sickness can
present including dementia, delusions, the wobbles, a lack of physical coordination
and possibly induce coma.
To prevent the acute symptoms of altitude sickness, climbers have to slowly
acclimate their bodies to the various stages of high altitudes. This is the reason why
climbers can take many weeks to climb Mt Everest.
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THE LOCATIONS – New Zealand and Mt Everest
Filming for BEYOND THE EDGE took place in the high altitude climbs of the
Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park region, located in the centre of New Zealand’s
Southern Alps, and at Mt Everest in The Himalayas.
For 21 days in March 2013, the principal photography of the re-enactments took
place in and around the magnificent key locations of Mt Hopkins at the head of the
Dobson Valley, the Tasman Glacier ice-falls, Mt Hochstetter ice fall and locations on
The Minarets.
In May 2013, Mark Whetu, an experienced New Zealand mountaineer and high
altitude cameraman led a second unit team and shot footage for BEYOND THE
EDGE as he summited Mt Everest in The Himalayas.
Mark Whetu’s Ascent of Everest 2013
At 10:00pm on May 19, 2013, experienced Kiwi mountaineer Mark Whetu
departed the South Col, and summited Mt Everest at 6:40am on May 20.
BEYOND THE EDGE has been a unique opportunity for Mark Whetu, “It’s been an
honour, not only to be involved with and contribute to the production but also to
celebrate by climbing Mt Everest during the time of the 60th anniversary.
This particular expedition was one of the more enjoyable projects that I've worked
on. Essentially we had superb weather and therefore climbing conditions were very
favourable. It was great to be involved in a New Zealand project, on a New
Zealand-lead expedition, shooting a story about our most famous New Zealander.”
Whetu is a New Zealand Mountaineer, specialising in high altitude filming, rigging and
crew safety. Mark's filming exploits have put him in the wildest locations possible,
providing exclusive footage for productions internationally.
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This was Mark’s 7th ascent of Everest. He began the expedition in early April and
spent six weeks acclimatising and filming the lower mountain.
On the expedition were 49 Sherpa staff with 20 Climbing Sherpa for Everest (16
were summit day Climbing Sherpa), and 4 Climbing Sherpa for Mark Whetu's film
project. The rest of the Sherpa were at Base Camp or were cook staff.
There was in excess of 10,000kg of equipment which was all transported to Base
Camp by either porter or yak. A porter normally carries 30kg and a yak
60kg+. There were more than 100 porters and about 90 or so yaks. Once above
Base Camp, loads were carried by the expeditions’ climbing Sherpa (who carry less –
normally about 15kg depending on how bulky or cumbersome the load is).
About Mt Everest in the Himalaya Region:
The Himalayan mountain range in Asia separates the plains of the Tibetan Plateau
from the plains of the Indian subcontinent. It is home to some of the highest peaks
on earth, with over a hundred mountains exceeding 7,200metres (23,600 feet), the
highest being Mt Everest with a peak of 8,848metres (29,029 ft) above sea level.
Today the mountain attracts relatively large numbers of adventurous and highly
experienced mountaineers as well as ‘capable’ climbers – willing to challenge the high
level of danger such as altitude sickness freezing temperatures, extreme weather
conditions and wild wind.
About Aoraki/Mt Cook Region:
The mountains of Aoraki/Mt Cook region are renown to be very similar to the
Himalayas, with similar textures, ice cliffs and terrain, but the main difference is of
course the much lower altitude. The lower altitude makes this ‘match’ a real asset
for the Mt Cook region to enable filming of projects like BEYOND THE EDGE and
others. It’s also an ideal training ground for New Zealand mountaineers who can
transfer the skills they learn to the Himalayas.
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Aoraki/Mt Cook, located in the centre of the South Island is New Zealand's great
alpine park consisting of 70,696 hectares. It has the highest mountains and the largest
glaciers in New Zealand. Mt Cook itself is the highest peak in New Zealand reaching
3,754 meters (12,316 ft).
Sir Edmund Hillary and Mt Cook
Sir Edmund Hillary had a longstanding connection with the Aoraki/Mt Cook region.
The Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Centre hosts a treasure trove of information about
the great mountaineer and hosts a gallery that touches upon his achievements,
expeditions and life’s work. It was here at Aoraki Mt Cook that a young Ed Hillary
climbed his first major mountain and achieved a number of impressive first ascents
including the difficult south face of Mt Cook, and also trained for his Everest and
Antartic expeditions.
Aoraki/Mount Cook was formally established as a national park in 1953, the same
year Hillary and Tenzing reached the top of Everest. The park was formed
from reserves that were established as early as 1887 to protect the area’s significant
vegetation and landscape.
A popular tourist destination, it is also a favourite challenge for mountaineers from
all over the world. Aoraki/Mount Cook consists of three summits lying slightly south
and east of the main divide, the Low Peak, Middle Peak and High Peak, with the
Tasman Glacier to the east and the Hooker Glacier to the west.
This magnificent alpine wonderland is also famous for its majestic locations in Sir
Peter Jackson’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy and THE HOBBIT.
Special Interest : World’s Largest Dark Sky Reserve
The Mt Cook National Park is home to over 4,300 km² of the region’s
Mackenzie night sky in the Southern Alps. This reserve has been recognised as an
International Dark Sky Reserve - the largest such reserve in the world and one of
the best stargazing sites on earth.
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BEYOND THE EDGE Credit Information
FEATURING Chad Moffitt as Edmund Hillary Sonam Sherpa as Tenzing Norgay 1
st Assistant Director Hamish Gough
Consultant for Ed Hillary and Mountaineering Peter Hillary Casting Director Liz Mullane Researcher Keiran McGee
CAST Edmund Hillary Chad Moffitt Tenzing Norgay Sonam Sherpa John Hunt John Wraight George Lowe Joshua Rutter Tom Bourdillon Dan Musgrove Charles Evans Erroll Shand Ang Nyima Phurenje Sherpa Pemba Jimmy Kunsang Alfred Gregory Callum Grant Wilfred Noyce Matthew Metcalfe Sherpa 1 Pasang Dawa Sherpa Sherpa 2 Nima Wangchhu Sherpa
CREW Stereographer Sean Kelly 1
st AC Dean McCarroll
2nd
AC Garth Michael Video Split Operator Jason Naran Digital Technician Chris Rudkin Script Supervisor Sarah Hinch Key Grip / 3D Engineer Dion Hartley Gaffer Jamie Couper Grip / Lighting Technicians Kevin Matthews Ben Vere Jones Production Co-ordinator Donna Pearman 2
nd Assistant Director Thea Govorko
Director’s Assistant Belinda Cumming Financial Controller Di Magee Art Directors Sam Storey Ken Turner Jill Cormack Props Buyer Grace Mok Standby Props Alexandra Turner Standby Assist / Special Effects Mike Appleby Construction / Special Effects Kevin Butson Ethan Gabriel Special Effects Technicians Tom Brown
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Pete Jansen Set Painter Andy King Graphic Designer Alistair Gillies Storyboard Artist David Gunson Make Up Assistant Michele Barber Costume Assistants Heidi Watson Costume Breakdown Artist Matthew Kleinhans Costume Cutter Marion Olson Costume Builder Rosemary Gough Knitter Jo Hawke Boot Makers Lastrite Footwear Mountaineering Consultant Guy Cotter Mountain Safety / Riggers Brian Hall Dave McLeod Mark Whetu Charlie Hobbs Mark Morrison Callum Grant Andy Tindall Edmund Hillary Climbing Double Jim Spencer Tenzing Norgay Climbing Double Phurenje Sherpa Set Medic / Unit Manager Richie Hunter Mountain Location Manager Guy Cotter Location Scout Phil Turner Set Runner Jane Ovenden Stunt Co-ordinator Steve McQuillan Stunt Rigger Aaron Lupton Edmund Hillary Stunt Double Mana Davis Tenzing Norgay Stunt Double Tim Wong Helicopter Pilots Mark Hayes John Haora Richard Hayes Nick Nicholson Scott Theyers Chris Green Sam Gawith Helicopter Coordinator Trish Knox
MT EVEREST CREW Mt. Everest Cinematographer Mark Whetu
Key Grip / Gaffer Adrian Greshoff Technical Assistants Ben Marshall
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Jason Tidswell Assistant Production Coordinators Kylie Gaudin David Boden Research Assistants Anna Maloney Annie Bates Art Department Assistant Bevan McDonald Make Up Artist Natasha Lees Safety Officer Robert Gibson
POST PRODUCTION BY DIGIPOST, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND Digipost Executive Directors Garry Little Greg Fay Post Production Producer Roger Grant VFX Producers Lucy Bowey Fiona Webb VFX Supervisor / Compositor Stuart Bedford VFX Compositors James Cordon Jesse Parkhill Matt Westbrooke Nick Hurst Oliver Faldo Richard Betts Kim Fogelberg Digital Matte Artist Peter Baustaedter 2D Graphic Design Grant Major 3D Animation Greg Smith Dan Taylor Ivan Leong Mike Blennerhasset Glenn Darwick Digital Colourist Pete Williams Archive Restoration Dave Gibson Gerard Ward Pete Williams Smoke Artist / Ocular Stereoscopic Matching James Schoning Supervising Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer Bruno Barrett-Garnier Sound Editor Bruce Langley Assistant Sound Editor Chay McLaren Additional SFX Recording Andy Salek Dave McLeod John Patrick Maxwell Scott Foley Artists Amy Barber Gareth Van Niekerk Digipost Audio Facilities Kylie Green Cinetape Services Edward Sampson
John Bakker DCP Mastering Matt Cunningham Digipost IT Terry Blow Benn Morrison Assistant Editor Jonathan Stevenson Assistant VFX Editor Anu Webster
SOUNDTRACK Orchestra Conductor Hamish McKeich Orchestral recording and mixing Graham Kennedy All other recording Mike Gibson Orchestration Ewan Clarke
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Music mixed at Park Road Post, Wellington, by Graham Kennedy Percussion Riki Gooch Viola Campara, Feedback David Long Harp Natalia Mann Taonga puoro Richard Nunns
Strings Emma Barron Megan Molina Matt Cave Rowan Prior Alexander Gunchenko Rebecca Struthers Sally Isaac Andrew Thomson Andrew Joyce Belinda Veitch Vesa-Matti Leppänen Anna van der Zee Haihong Lui Kristina Zelinska Alan Molina
Woodwinds Bridget Douglas Phil Green Peter Dykes Robert Weeks
Horns Dave Bremner Andrew Jarvis Mark Carter Sam Jacobs
Performed by Six60 Courtesy of Massive Entertainment Ltd
3ality Technica 3D Rigs Wingnut Cameras Lighting Equipment Portsmouth Rentals Grip Equipment Filmtec 3D Licences 3ality Technica Legal and Business Affairs Matt Emery (Emery Legal) Insurance Crombie Lockwood Completion Bond Services Film Finances Australia
Anni Browning Auditor PriceWaterhouseCoopers Corporate Accounting Services Leonard Knight Ltd.
Dave Johnston SPIF Lending ANZ Bank ANZ Lending Manager Grant Watson
Publicist Diana Goulding EPK Crew Jay Berryman
Lyn Hamilton Stills Photographer Matt Klitscher Mark Whetu
FOR THE NEW ZEALAND FILM COMMISSION Chief Executive Graeme Mason Deputy Chief Executive Mladen Ivancic Head of Business Affairs Naomi Wallwork
FOR NEW ZEALAND ON AIR Chief Executive Jane Wrightson
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Television Manager Glenn Usmar Television Contracts Executive Benedict Reid
FOR ALTITUDE FILM SALES Chief Executive Will Clarke Co-Chief Executive Andy Mayson Managing Director, International Sales Mike Runagall International Marketing Manager Robin Andrews International Sales Executive Vicki Brown
INTERVIEWEES: Broughton Coburn Mick Conefrey Ed Douglas Dr Peter Hackett Peter Hillary
Dr. David Shlim Norbu Tenzing Simon Thompson Stephen Venables Jim Whittaker
Archive Interviewees: Edmund Hillary
George Band Alfred Gregory John Hunt
George Lowe Mike Westmacott Charles Wylie
THE CONQUEST OF EVEREST (1953) COURTESY OF
Studiocanal Films Ltd. British Screen Finance Ltd.
1953 Everest expedition filmed by
Tom Stobart George Lowe
ARCHIVE COURTESY OF
T3 Media Sound Archives / Ngā Taonga Kōrero
Archives New Zealand / Te Rua Mahara o Te Kāwanatanga Keirfilm Productions Ltd
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Library Sales Global ImageWorks, LLC.
Everest The Ultimate Challenge 1922-1982 / Quarry Lane Productions Eddie Bauer, LLC
STILL PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF Royal Geographic Society (with IBG)
The Hillary Family Auckland War Memorial Museum George Lowe Collection Guy Cotter, Adventure Consultants Kynan Bazley & Hedgehog House NZ
Eric Shipton (RGS) Alfred Gregory (RGS) Edmund Hillary (RGS) George Lowe (RGS) John Hunt (RGS) Charles Wylie (RGS)
THANKS TO
Susan Band Theresa Graham
Susan Leyden Mary Lowe
Jan Morris Sally Westmacott
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Auckland Boys’ Grammar Pete Athans Dave Bamford Ray Bellringer Connor Bradding Canterbury Museum Jim Clash Claude Desan Andy Faulkner Kerry Fowler Luca Gibb Patric Giclas Glentanner Station Goal Zero Australia Norman Hardie Richard and Carol Hayes Jochen Hemmleb Brian Hill Shaun Higgins Sonny Hopkins Harrison Hoskin
Frank Jasper Jacob Johnson Alexa Johnston Leonne Kassler Colin Kelly Chris Lambourne Jacob Lerner Dr Huw Lewis-Jones Matt Logan Stephen Lovatt Colin Luke Sam Newton Hugh Major Lloyd Major John Martin Meek William McCartney Kirsten McDougall Margaret McMahon Edward Moody Mountain Heritage Trust Mount Cook Backpackers
Tim O'Connor Jamie Owen Adam Pavis Paul Paton Dylan Pharazyn Rotary International Audrey Salkeld Douglas Scott Murray Stott The American Alpine Club The Explorers Club The Hermitage Hotel The New Zealand Alpine Club Simon Thompson Gilly Tyler Walt Unsworth Edmund Viesturs Greg Walker White Studio Justin Winters Wireless Warehouse
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Royal Geographic Society Peter Hillary Sarah Hillary Lady June Hillary John Hillary June Carlisle Alistair Carlisle Hilary Carlisle
Norbu Tenzing Jamling Tenzing Elizabeth Metcalfe Benjamin Metcalfe Dean Pooley Ella Pooley Grace Pooley
The Filmmakers would also like to thank the people of Ngāi Tahu, the people of Aoraki Mt. Cook Village
and the wider New Zealand community for making this film possible.
Filmed on location in Aoraki Mt. Cook National Park, New Zealand; Auckland, New Zealand
and Mt. Everest, Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal
Produced with the assistance of Aoraki Area Office of the Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai New Zealand
Mt. Everest filming assisted by Adventure Consultants
The Himalayan Trust was the work of Ed Hillary’s life. This was how he helped people reach their own summits!