Frank Deford Quotes

At the end of the day it was a guy from Nepal and a guy from New Zealand who conquered the world's highest peak for the British Empire... Bannister's feat a year later meant as much to the nation if not more. An Englishman had finally got to the top of the mountain.

- Frank Deford

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