Everest: The South West Face

In 1975, an expedition led by Chris Bonington set out to achieve the impossible. To climb the South West Face of Everest, and put the very first British Mountaineers on her summit. In the face of overwhelming odds, dwindling oxygen supplies, freezing Jet Stream winds, avalanche, frostbite, widespread public negativity and the press reporting that failure was almost inevitable - a British team succeeded - where all others had failed.