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‘Tenzing biopic made me wonder what he would think if he could return to the mountain today’ – glaciologist and mountaineer

A glaciologist reviews a new film covering the ascent of Tenzing Norgay (played by Genden Phuntsok) to the top of Everest in 1953.

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