Great Climbs: Hornbein and Unsoeld, 1963

A look at the American Mount Everest Expedition climb in 1963 on the North Face.  Although the route is referred to as the "West Ridge," little of the climbing was actually on the ridge, with the bulk of the climbing in the Hornbein Couloir.

Wearing largely natural fiber clothing, hobnail boots, and fishnet stockings, Tom Hornbein and Willi Unseold because the first people to reach the summit from the North and live to tell about it.  I do not count the Chinese 1960 alleged summit as there is no reason to believe they reached the actual summit.

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