From the Ocean to the Sky

Duration: 53 min.

Year Published: 1980

Creator: Church

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: 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.

Complete Record: , 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. , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.