Based on a four-part documentary series shown on TVNZ,
Everest - View from the Top has been
adapted for Channel 4 and Channel 4 International by Peter Williams
Television and Tom Scott Productions. Peter Williams is the Executive
Producer. Tom Scott is the Producer/Director. Ian McKellen recorded a new
narration in Wellington, New Zealand on 21 June 2002.
To make the original documentary the production team
travelled across the US with Sir Edmund and Lady Hillary as he spoke at
fund-raising dinners, accompanied them to old haunts in Delhi, Darjeeling
and Varanasi in India, and visited aid projects in the Solu Khumbu
district below Everest in Eastern Nepal. They also took Hillary back to the
South Pole.
Sir
Edmund and Lady Hillary visited the WETA studios during the filming of
Lord
of the Rings. He is an avid Tolkien reader.
