The haul includes a food packet signed by John Hunt, who led the first team to climb Mount Everest
The items included an Everest expedition food packet signed by Lord John Hunt, who led the teamMemorabilia from the first successful ascent of Mount Everest has been bought by a world-renowned mountaineer.
The archive, collected by Tom Stobart - a cameraman on the 1953 Everest expedition - has sold for £12,000 at auction. Italian mountaineer, explorer and author Reinhold Messner purchased the collection so it could be displayed at a museum in his home country.Tom Stobart captured footage of Sir Edmund Hillary, from New Zealand, and Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay'sHis son, Patrick Stobart, 77, from Nottingham, decided to part with his father's collection to save the archive "for posterity".
Other items included tickets and a programme for the first screening of the film - attended by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh - newspaper cuttings and a pickaxe.
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