EVEREST 1984

1984 was year of Tim Macartney-Snape’s first ascent of Mt. Everest. His second ascent from ’Sea to Summit’ was in 1990. The first Australian ascent of the Great Couloir route on Mt Everest during the Autumn of 1984. On 3 October 1984 Tim Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer were the first Australians to reach the summit of Mount Everest. This small Australian team headed to the north side of Mt Everest where they proceeded to prepare to ascend an unclimbed route on the north face climbing without bottled oxygen in a lightweight alpine style and without the help of high altitude porters. They reached the summit, via a new route on the North Face (North Face to Norton Couloir). The Australian Mount Everest Expedition team made headlines around the world. They were the first Australians to reach Everest’s summit. Everest historian Walt Unsworth called the feat ’one of the greatest climbs ever done on the mountain’. Geoff Bartram, Lincoln Hall and Andy Henderson did not reach the summit at 8848 metres, thou