SLATE INFORMATION: Everest Heroes Back At Base

21.6.1953
INDIA: Katmandu:
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B/W throughout
General view of Mount Everest

Edmund Hillary reading his first mail / Whole of Everest party including Hillary and Sherpa Tensing Norgay entering the village of Hukase

Various Everest expedition members receiving garlands, close-ups of Tensing, colonel John Hunt / Tensing and Hillary laughing together

Procession entering Katmandu (Kathmandu) / Crowds gathered / State coach carrying Hunt, Hillary and Tensing / Other members of expedition on lorry, crowd

Hillary, Tensing and Hunt sitting with garlands around their necks

Features: Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (b. 1919), Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986), Indigenous Peoples; Personalities - Explorers
Background: Sir Edmund Hillary, Sherpa Tensing Norgay and Colonel John Hunt at base after first ascent of Mount Everest. Expedition members in procession to Kathmandu.