"Dad, it's Peter. We're on the summit."
That simple message bridged a half-century, 29,035 feet and a technological revolution as Peter Hillary spoke by satellite phone to his father, Sir Edmund Hillary, from Mount Everest.
'Everest: Younger Hillary retraces steps’
That simple message bridged a half-century, 29,035 feet and a technological revolution as Peter Hillary spoke by satellite phone to his father, Sir Edmund Hillary, from Mount Everest.
'Everest: Younger Hillary retraces steps’