Mount Everest 'coup of the century'

By Mark Sawa and B.c Lewis
Updated October 14 2014 - 2:49pm, first published 12:00am
Tim Macartney-Snape during the first Australian expedition to reach the summit of Mt Everest on October 3, 1984.
Tim Macartney-Snape during the first Australian expedition to reach the summit of Mt Everest on October 3, 1984.
Tim Macartney-Snape during the first Australian expedition to reach the summit of Mt Everest on October 3, 1984. He will speak this Friday at the Australian Climbing Festival in Katoomba. "I will always be a climber and as long as I can I will climb - I love the mountain landscape and the purity of climbing a route".
Tim Macartney-Snape during the first Australian expedition to reach the summit of Mt Everest on October 3, 1984. He will speak this Friday at the Australian Climbing Festival in Katoomba. "I will always be a climber and as long as I can I will climb - I love the mountain landscape and the purity of climbing a route".

It was hailed as one of the greatest Mt Everest climbs and considered the mountaineering coup of the century and this weekend visitors to a Katoomba-based festival will have the chance to hear all about it from one of the men who stood at the top of the world.

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