From the Ocean to the Sky
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Records the undertaking of Sir Edmund Hillary, who in 1977 with a party of 19 men in three jet boats, ascended the Ganges River from its mouth to its source., Sir Edmund Hillary and his team journey by jet boat and foot up the 1500 mile length of India's sacred river Ganges. From the mangrove swamps of the delta, past teeming Calcutta, where an estimated one million people crowded the shore to greet them, they travel a thousand miles through the heartland of India coming at last to the deep Himalayan gorges where the Ganges becomes one of the most treacherous rivers on earth. Their adventure culminates in the ascent of a magnificent Himalayan peak.
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, Sir Edmund Hillary and his team journey by jet boat and foot up the 1500 mile length of India's sacred river Ganges. From the mangrove swamps of the delta, past teeming Calcutta, where an estimated one million people crowded the shore to greet them, they travel a thousand miles through the heartland of India coming at last to the deep Himalayan gorges where the Ganges becomes one of the most treacherous rivers on earth. Their adventure culminates in the ascent of a magnificent Himalayan peak.
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