i have a personal interest since my father was the first man in the world to fly over mount everest.ically possible and if he had not succeeded i would not be here today. laughter. when i went up the himalayas a few years ago the sharpest told me that there was not one ship a family who had not had a member killed being a guide. only when the europeans came up with this strange idea that you had to get to the top of these uninhabitable regions that they, because their income is low they lost their lives, will the noble lady talk to her colleagues in the development department to try and help the income level of those families so that they don't need to rely on insane europeans going to high up mountains? i think the noble lady has a number of points and i applaud her distinguished experience. never been anywhere near everest myself... i think i can safely say that situation is unlikely to change. laughter. the noble lady will be aware that we have a good relationship with nepal. that includes support and financial help. one of the things that we have been doing is endeavouring to hel

applause] kennedy: many years ago the great british explorer mallory was asked why he wanted to climb mount everest. he said, because it is there. well, space is there. we are going to climate. it.e are going to climb therefore, as we set sail we ask god's blessings on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked. thank you. [applause] >> this weekend, american history tv features the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 mission and moon landing. sunday on oral histories apollo 11 flight director talks about his training for the mission, spacecraft problems, and the july 20 moon landing. >> you get this weird feeling. it is chilling, that it soaks through the room. my god, we are actually on the moon. >> on american history tv, all weekend every weekend, only on c-span3. >> next on american history tv, a discussion about the apollo spacesuits 50 years after the first u.s. moon landing. panelists include spacesuit testers and designers, m.i.t. dave newman, and ryan nagata, who makes spacesuit replicas. a panel ofassembled speakers. some of my favorite people i

more than 20 people, including at least 11 climbers on mount everest have dued due to bad weather, inexperience, or overcrowded locations. >>> well, you won't have to travel through space to get a look at saturn tonight. it's easy to see even with the naked eye, but there's an extra treat in store if you have even a small telescope. it's the closest in its orbit to the earth, so through a scope it's easy to see the rings. and while it will be at its brightest tonight, it will still be sparkling for another couple of months. >> first you have to get out of the fog. >> would binoculars do that? >> you really need a good telescope. but we have been talking about the ridgecrest quake a few minutes ago, the aftershock sequences declining, but we'll prepare you with some little known facts so we're not scared, we're prepared. in this case a quake strikes, okay? so a quake strikes in the aftermath you should turn off the gas, if you smell gas turn off the gas, or wait until you hear from pg&e? think about it. and first we'll show you why you might have trouble even with the largest telescope in the wo

it's like, mount everest, you have no government, it's difficult to break. you could say, it did its job kinda what it could do. but it was not successful in its main objective. in utmost, i think one could say that it managed to keep poverty and very high levels. so there was also room for rethinking. in one of the things that's really one can say is the implementation of this destruction is substitution especially with scholarships has been the lot return hundred undergraduate less than well-done. 25% of people in families covered by prosper in the transition have suffered. the idea is that they will not continue to suffer but they will be minded but it has taken a few months to do so. as to why he wants to focus on the poor people in the socially excluded, he has a business council. i would say more generally, he really hasn't touched the real economic elites very much. i would argue because of the huge structural power of mexican business. which is highly transactional. at this point, it is very different from the kind of business we had in the 19 needs.

it's like the mount everest and you have no equipment. it's like, really very difficult to break. so yes, you could say it did its job, kind of. what, you know, it could do. but it wasn't successful in its main objective. and at most i think one could say that it managed to keep poverty at very high levels. so there was also room for rethinking. and one of the things that certainly one can't say is that the implementation of this destruction and substitution essentially with scholarships has been less than well done around what i've heard is around 25% at present, 25% of people and families covered by prospera in the transition have suffered. the idea is that they will not continue to suffer. that they will be minded but it has taken a few months to do so. as to why, if he wants to focus on the poor people and the socially excluded, he has a business council, i would say more generally he really hasn't touched the real economic elites very much. i would argue because of the huge structural power of mexican business, which are highly transnational. at this point it's very different

applause] many years ago a great british --loyer -- exploiter explorer who was to die on not everest wasn mount asked why he was to climb it, and he said because it was there. space is there and we are to climb it and the , moon and the planets are there. and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. and therefore as we set sail, we ask god's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man was ever embarked. thank you. [applause] and it isple is down a little difficult to see through -- >> it is a very soft surface, here and there i run into a very hard surface, but it appears to be very cohesive material of the same sort. >> now you are watching american history tv. every weekend beginning saturday you americanbring history tv, only on c-span3. setting upe they are the flag now. this is houston, radio check, over. roger, houston, loud and clear. buzz.er, announcer: all weekend american history tv marks the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing. thet the -- we learn about role this played in the apollo program. >> why choose this as our goal, and the

. >> reporter: then, there was the mount everest of the case -- the forensics, explaining to the juryblood in the peterson stairwell. >> the defense would call dr. henry lee to the stand. >> reporter: the defense called celebrity forensic expert dr. henry lee, of o.j. case fame, to show the jury in theatrical fashion just how kathleen, falling, then staggering about, coughing up blood, could have accounted for the spray. >> an injured person can walking, can move, can shake their head. >> obviously, the blood all around was due to her being alive and moving around for some period of time. it didn't have to do with what inflicted the wounds. >> reporter: the blood on his shorts, that could have happened, the defense said, while michael peterson was cradling his wife. the fact that some of the blood was dry when first responders arrived, well, michael never said he knew what time kathleen fell. and as for those drops of blood in the house and on the walkway outside suggesting he staged the scene, the defense said none of that could be trusted. >> the blood in that area had been complete

hypoxaemia, where there is insufficient oxygen, cruising at 10,000 feet above mount everest.remely unlikely, on the approach to land they were full out of the carriage bay to their death below. in this case it was in clapham. there have been many others like this. how many? officially, 99 cents 19117. there has been a study in the number. not all in england. 0ver here we have had five or six. you indicated it is highly unlikely that this individual would have been conscious at the point at which they fell. it is highly unlikely because it isa fell. it is highly unlikely because it is a nine—hour flight. fell. it is highly unlikely because it is a nine—hourflight. through hype they will pass out. they are not going to be conscious at cruising altitude 35,000 feet. —— hypoxia. they will pass out. people that have attempted this and most likely will attempt it again, but one wonders, aside from the security questions and the fact that someone was able to climb onto the undercarriage of this particular aircraft, why anyone would begin to think this was a way of getting from one c