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Chris Bonington

Jim Naughtie talks to the climber Chris Bonington - now in his eighties - about a lifetime of mountaineering, the friends he's lost, and how initially he wasn't all that bothered about scaling Everest.

15 minutes

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Sun 19 Nov 201722:45
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PresenterJames Naughtie
Interviewed GuestChris Bonington
ProducerJamie McConkey

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