On 29th May, 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary & a Nepalese Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, became the first climbers to conquer Mount Everest, the highest place on earth & in so doing became heroes across the world. The climb, under the auspices of the British Empire, was led by Colonel John Hunt, a true British gentleman. This programme provides a definitive account of one of the last truly great 20th century explorers & adventurers, for which Edmund Hillary has granted exclusive access to his letters & photographs, & shares deeply personal feelings about the triumphs & tragedies of his life, including the deaths of his wife & daughter in an air crash in 1975. ...

During a war between two planets in the same solar system
- each occupied by adapted humans
- what is thought to be a cosmic

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