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The sous-fonds contains interviews with team members and affiliates of the 1982 Canadian Everest Expedition. Interviewees include John Amatt, Stephen Bezruchka, Michael Breckon, Pat Morrow, Lynn Muir, Charles (Chic) Scott, Laurie Skreslet and Peter Spear. Most interviews are in video format, while some are in audio format.
Additional interview accruals are possible.
The interviews within this sous-fonds were collected over the summer of 2018 in order to support the 1982 Canadian Everest Expedition collection. The interviews were conducted by archives practicum Abigail Sebaly in-person in the Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives and via phone.
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Item is an interview that discusses Amatt's role as business manager for the 1982 Canadian Everest Expedition. Interview conducted by archives practicum Abigail Sebaly at Amatt's home in Canmore.
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Item is an interview that discusses Morrow's role as a team member and photographer for the 1982 Canadian Everest Expedition. Morrow was one of 2 Canadians to summit the mountain on that expedition. Interview conducted by archives practicum Abigail Sebaly at the Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives.
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Raw footage of Morrow examining archival materials from the Everest 1982 expedition in the Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives with archives practicum Abigail Sebaly.
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Item is an interview with Lynn Muir, daughter of Jim Muir, who gave the Everest 1982 collection materials to the Banff Centre. Jim Muir owned the Montreal-based firm Programmed Communications Ltd (PCL), and was responsible for maintaining and curating the press materials, slides, and other media related to the 1982 Canadian Everest Expedition. Lynn discusses her own involvement in PCL, and various contextual details about how the expedition was documented. Interview conducted via phone by archives practicum Abigail Sebaly at the Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives.
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Item is an interview that discusses Bezruchka's role as doctor and team member on the 1982 Canadian Everest expedition. Interview conducted by phone by archives practicum Abigail Sebaly at the Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives.
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Item is an interview that discusses Skreslet's experiences as a team member on the 1982 Canadian Everest Expedition and the first Canadian to summit Mt. Everest. Interview conducted by archives practicum Abigail Sebaly in the Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives.
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Item is an interview that discusses Spear's role as base camp manager for the 1982 Canadian Everest Expedition. Interview conducted by archives practicum Abigail Sebaly at the Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives.
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Item is an interview that contextualizes the 1982 Everest expedition in the broader scope of Canadian and international mountaineering pursuits. Scott also recounts his own mountaineering experiences in the Himalayas in the 1970s. Interview conducted by archives practicum Abigail Sebaly at the Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives
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Item is an interview with Michael Breckon, who was the global director of advertising at Air Canada during the time that the company sponsored the 1982 Canadian Everest Expedition. Breckon discusses the formation of the sponsorship arrangement, developing the Everest promotional campaign, and creating an award-winning radio program about the history of Mt. Everest. Interview conducted with Breckon via phone by archives practicum Abigail Sebaly at the Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives.
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Item is an interview that is an audio follow-up to Spear's earlier video interview on serving as base camp manager for the 1982 Canadian Everest expedition. Includes discussion of the Catalan and New Zealand teams who were in the region at the time, expedition finances, dealing with garbage on the mountain, and the expedition's change in route plan. Interview conducted via phone by archives practicum Abigail Sebaly in the Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives.
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Item is an interview that is a second audio follow-up to Spear's earlier video and audio interviews on serving as base camp manager for the 1982 Canadian Everest expedition. Spear discusses ABC news reporter Jack Smith flying in to Base Camp via helicopter to do a report on the expedition, and the complications that ensued. Interview conducted via phone by archives practicum Abigail Sebaly in the Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives.