Plot
High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 is the deepest story of the greatest Himalayan climb in American mountaineering history. Showcasing the daring and visionary efforts of the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition, the film examines the sheer commitment, step-by-step struggle and lasting impact of America's first ascent of Mount Everest and the pioneering first ascent of West Ridge by Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld. Five decades later, High and Hallowed returns to Everest to find out if the essence of risk, adventure and the unknown that drew the first Americans to the summit still exists on Everest today.
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Cast
Melissa Arnot
Self
Reinhold Messner
Self
Barry Bishop
Self (archive footage)
Brent Bishop
Self
Norman Dyhrenfurth
Self
Ngawang Gombu
Self (archive footage)
Dave Hahn
Self
Tom Hornbein
Self
Lute Jerstad
Self (archive footage)
Jon Krakauer
Self (narrator)
Charley Mace
Self
David Morton
Self
Jake Norton
Self
Willi Unsoeld
Self (archive footage)
Jim Whittaker
Self
Steve House
Self
Dave Dingman
Self
Dianne Roberts
Self
Leif Whittaker
Self
Doug Scott
Self
Ed Viesturs
Self
Tenzing Norgay
Self (archive footage)
Edmund Hillary
Self (archive footage)
Jim Lester
Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Maynard Miller
Self (archive footage)
Will Siri
Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage)
Jake Breitenbach
Self (archive footage)
Gill Roberts
Self (archive footage)
Dick Pownall
Self (archive footage)
James Ramsey Ullman
Self (archive footage)
Al Auten
Self (archive footage)
Barry Corbet
Self (archive footage)
Barry Prather
Self (archive footage)
Dan Doody
Self (archive footage)
Dick Emerson
Self (archive footage)
