I was reminded the other day of just how the world has shrunk in my six decades here. The trigger for this rather banal realisation was watching
The Conquest of Everest, 1953's documentary about the first successful Everest expedition. It was only sixteen yeeas later that man broke out of gravity and walked on the moon. What modern achievement is ever going to reproduce that sense of awe and distance we enjoyed?
By the way, I met John Hunt the Everest Expedition leader at the Royal Geographical Society. I'm so well acquaintanced. We must have spoken for all of ten seconds.
The film? 79/100.
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