"John Murray and Brian Hayes hauled their non-too-light cameras
up some 26000 feet to bring back this beautiful and quite remarkable
film of the first successful Irish ascent of Everest. It was a film which caught
not only the hardship and the hard work and the courage involved but also
something of the philosophy which attracts people
to a place like Everest."

Brendan Glacken, The Irish Times

A remarkable one-hour documentary on the successful ascent of the formidable and seldom climbed north-east ridge of Mount Everest by an Irish team in the Spring of 1993. Filmed in remote and beautiful Tibet, it is a story of courage, strength and determination set against the awesome size and danger of Everest.

In a testimony to North-South cooperation, the Irish climbing team was drawn from both sides of the border. Dawson Stelfox, the summiteer, holds both an Irish and British passport, making him the first Irishman to climb Everest and the first Briton to climb the north-east ridge, the same route Mallory and Irvine disappeared on in the 1920's.

Directed by Brian Hayes
Filmed and Produced by John Murray
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