Wed 18 Nov · 7:30pm
Headland Theatre @ Tathra Hotel · Tathra
Peter FitzSimons on the race up Everest
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THE RACE TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD - Peter FitzSimons in-conversation with Eddie Williams, ABC South East
The epic true story of George Mallory and Edmund Hillary and the quest to be the first to conquer Everest. Last century, two men, thirty years apart, set out to become the first to conquer the highest point in the world. Their names are synonymous with adventure - George Mallory and Edmund Hillary. One travelled from England, the other New Zealand, both seeking to test human endurance and defeat the most extreme elements on earth - blasting winds, vicious vertical ascents, lack of oxygen and freezing temperatures that could kill in minutes.
In THE RACE TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD, Peter FitzSimons illuminates the lives of these two pioneering explorers, Mallory and Hillary, and those who were with them along the way – Tenzing, Irvine and George Finch, an Australian whose pioneering work on the use of oxygen was instrumental in climbing ever higher – and describes in compelling detail what brought them all to the mountain. Revealing the courageous men behind the names, their years of intense planning and preparation, and the ongoing mystery of Mallory's disappearance, this is an epic story of adventure, daring, despair and triumph.
Peter FitzSimons AM is Australia's bestselling non-fiction writer, and for the past 40 years has also been a journalist and columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun Herald. He is the author of a number of highly successful books, including…
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Wed 18 Nov 2026, 7:30pm.
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Headland Theatre @ Tathra Hotel, Tathra, NSW.
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