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The 1982 Canadian Everest Expedition Collection
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1982 Canadian Everest Expedition audio recordings

Series contains recordings that fall within two general categories: unedited field audio from the expedition and more highly-produced press and promotional audio. Series includes interviews with expedition team members in Nepal and Canada, environmental field recordings within Nepal, Everest Base Camp radio transmissions, the radio serial "Everest: The Ultimate Challenge, 1992-1982", additional programs on Everest’s history produced by Air Canada and the CBC, and the audio and musical components for CanEverEx’s pre and post-expedition slideshows.

1982 Canadian Everest Expedition photographs

The series contains negatives and contact sheets related to pre-expedition activities, including an expedition sponsor showcase in Toronto and studio team head shots taken in Canada. Also includes expedition photos taken by team members in Thailand, Kathmandu, and various locations on the Mt. Everest climbing route, as well as an audio cassette of photo notes that Brian Smith of Programmed Communications Limited (PCL) in Montreal sent to the individual climbers, mid-expedition. The series also contains a subseries of photographic notes, inscribed on scraps of paper, that the climbers sent with each of their individual rolls of film from Nepal back to PCL.

1982 Canadian Everest Expedition slides and slide documentation

Series consists of one sub-series of slides documenting activities throughout all stages of the Canadian team’s Everest expedition preparation and realization, from pre-training climbs and expedition promotion to travel in Nepal and maneuvers on Everest itself. Slides were taken by expedition team members as well as press photographers. Series also includes paper file guides prepared by Programmed Communications Limited (PCL), and a series of internegatives, duplicated by PCL from a selection of the original negatives.

1982 Canadian Everest Expedition video and film footage

Series contains video and film footage that falls within two general categories: raw video from the expedition shot by expedition team members, and more commercially-produced press, news, and promotional coverage. Series includes extensive film footage shot on-site in Nepal and on the Everest route throughout the expedition, video versions of the CanEverEx pre and post-expedition presentations including "Everest: The Dream, The Reality", an Air Canada pre-expedition in-flight documentary on Everest, and Everest-related news segments from Canadian and American news outlets.

1982 Everest Expedition avalanche radio transmissions

File contains John Amatt’s extended audio recordings of camp operations and radio transmissions surounding a major avalanche that occurred in the Khumbu Icefall on August 31, 1982, killing 3 Sherpa, Ang Chuldim Sherpa, Pasang Sona Sherpa, and Dawa Dorje Sherpa. Conversations are unedited, sometimes with extended periods of silence, and team member voices are sometimes inaudible and difficult to identify.

1982 Everest Expedition field recordings

File includes cassettes with field recordings made by team members on the April 1982 expedition gear transport layover in Prestwick, Scotland, and in various locations in Nepal. Clips include recordings of expedition logistics meetings, climber team meetings, Sherpa gatherings, commentary from Sir Edmund Hillary, and environmental sounds captured from the trail.

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