On screen
Cast
38 credited performers
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Melissa Arnot
Self
Reinhold Messner
Self
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Barry Bishop
Self (archive footage)
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Brent Bishop
Self
Norman Dyhrenfurth
Self
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Ngawang Gombu
Self (archive footage)
Dave Hahn
Self
Tom Hornbein
Self
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Lute Jerstad
Self (archive footage)
Jon Krakauer
Self (narrator)
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Charley Mace
Self
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David Morton
Self
Jake Norton
Self
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Willi Unsoeld
Self (archive footage)
Jim Whittaker
Self
Steve House
Self
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Dave Dingman
Self
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Dianne Roberts
Self
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Leif Whittaker
Self
Doug Scott
Self
Ed Viesturs
Self
Tenzing Norgay
Self (archive footage)
Edmund Hillary
Self (archive footage)
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Jim Lester
Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
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Maynard Miller
Self (archive footage)
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Will Siri
Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage)
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Jake Breitenbach
Self (archive footage)
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Gill Roberts
Self (archive footage)
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Dick Pownall
Self (archive footage)
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James Ramsey Ullman
Self (archive footage)
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Al Auten
Self (archive footage)
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Barry Corbet
Self (archive footage)
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Barry Prather
Self (archive footage)
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Dan Doody
Self (archive footage)
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Dick Emerson
Self (archive footage)