From the archive record
Archival footage of a wide valley with a village and high mountains of the Sagarmatha National Park on an expedition to Mount Everest Base Camp. The mighty mountain ranges of the Himalayas have, over the centuries, inspired not only man's imagination and spiritual quest, but also his spirit of adventure. Mount Everest, the tallest of the peaks of the Himalayas as also the whole world, stood in its unattainable isolation for thousands of years, till Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary conquered it in 1953. Since then, at least a thousand climbers have set foot on it. That at least 200 have lost their lives while trying to scale the peak speaks of the infinite dangers involved in the task. This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India