LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Alison Hargreaves describes her conquest of Everest

Genre

Interview

TX Date

19 Aug 1995

Year of production

1995

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Duration

00:01:33

Description

Archive clip of mountaineer Alison Hargeaves talking on her conquest of Everest, without oxygen, and on her own for the last stage. She told Richard Vaughan about the loneliness of the mountains. Now transmitted in the wake of her death in an avalanche on K2.

Contributors

Alison Hargreaves; Richard Vaughan

Keywords

Deaths; Mountaineering expeditions; Mount Everest; Mountaineers; K2; Mountaineering accidents; Avalanches; Alison Hargreaves

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