The first Australian ascent of Mt Everest in 1984 is one of the great feats of mountaineering. Climbed by a small team semi-alpine style, with no bottled oxygen, via the Great (Norton) Couloir, it remains unrepeated 40 years later.
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On 25 February 2016, Australian Geographic’s founding editor, Howard Whelan sat down for an intimate conversation with one of Australia’s most accomplished mountaineers, Greg Mortimer.
More than 60 years after the first ascent of Mt Everest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, we talk to mountaineer Greg Mortimer about the first Australian ascent of the world’s highest peak.
