World in a Tent
Interactive Exhibition
Everest and its Expeditions
EVEREST - a digital exhibition
EVEREST - a digital exhibition
To add the the access and educational benefits of this project we have joined with SDS-Heritage to provide digital support and innovation to our cultural heritage projects. This is a digital exhibition made with the images and input of UK Nepalese communities living in Kent and Surrey.
Hiker
Official trailer of the film, Everest (2015). It is a 2015 biographical survival adventure film, directed and produced by Baltasar Kormákur and written by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy. The 1996 Mount Everest disaster occurred on 10–11 May 1996 when eight climbers caught in a blizzard died on Mount Everest while attempting to descend from the summit.
See link to the Official Trailer for the film, Everest (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Q2rrQlPW4
Behind the Scenes interviews about the making of the film, Everest (2015): “This Is as Extreme Filmmaking as It Gets” Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, and director Baltasar Kormakur on how they recreated the 1996 Mount Everest disaster using real mountains, real snow, and one giant freezer.
See link to the behind-the-scenes documentary of the film, Everest (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxNU9jJVEKk
Hillary & Tenzing 1953
Between 1921 there have been 11,346 summit ascents by 6,098 people.
310 climbers have died trying to reach the summit.
At 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal, became the first explorers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which at 29,035 feet above sea level is the highest point on earth.
Hillary and Tenzing
See link for full list of Mount Everest Climbers
https://haexpeditions.com/advice/list-of-mount-everest-climbers
According to the Nepalese, Tenzing stepped on the mountain first and pulled Hilary.
Tenzing’s family have established a foundation.
See link for the foundation:
http://www.sherpatenzingnorgay.com/Tenzing-Norgay-Sherpa-Foundation.html
Himalayas Hike
The Environmental impact of the expeditions has had a detrimental effect to the mountain. There has been so much plastic and other non-biodegradable waste that the Sherpa now operate clean-up expeditions on a regular basis.
