Almost a century ago, a Glasgow RAF pilot narrowly escaped death in a fragile open-cockpit biplane as he became the first man to fly over Mount Everest. Air Commodore ... A second aircraft, carrying ...

I had done my homework, reading extensively about him, his climbing partner Tenzing Norgay, and their historic ascent of Mount ... Everest being rewritten, if at all it is true they summited first.” ...

Amateur film taken during the first flight over Everest, showing aerial views of the mountain. The summit of Everest was flown over on the 3rd April 1933 by both machines of the ‘Houston Mount ...