Nova revisits Everest.(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, April, 1999 by Tedesco, Richard

A Nova/PBS expedition departs for Mount Everest later this month in a trek to be tracked online. The party's goal is to recover a Kodak camera from a 1924 climb. The Nova expedition, the second such trek to receive real-time coverage online, will try to uncover any clues from the ill-fated attempt on Everest led by George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine.

The Nova project seeks to uncover any clues to the fate of the lost British climbers. But the Kodak still camera they carried is a key artifact, since it could contain evidence on film that the team reached Everest's summit before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay were credited with first accomplishing the feat in 1953. Kodak believes it can reproduce images from the presumably frozen 75-year-old...

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