In the face of overwhelming odds, dwindling oxygen supplies, freezing jet stream winds, avalanche, frostbite, widespread public negativity, and the press reporting that failure was almost inevitable, a British team succeeded where all others had failed. At 6 p.m. on the 24th of September 1975, Doug Scott and Dougal Haston stood at 29,095 ft. on the world's highest mountain.

In the face of overwhelming odds, dwindling oxygen supplies, freezing jet stream winds, avalanche, frostbite, widespread public negativity, and the press reporting that failure was almost inevitable, a British team succeeded where all others had failed. At 6 p.m. on the 24th of September 1975, Doug Scott and Dougal Haston stood at 29,095 ft. on the world's highest mountain.