Himalaya with Michael Palin (2004)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rating

8.2 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Michael Palin travels through the Himalaya mountain range over six months. He visits remote villages and treks to high altitude locations like Everest Base Camp.

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What happens

Himalaya with Michael Palin is a 2004 BBC television series presented by comedian and travel presenter Michael Palin. It records his six-month trip around the Himalaya mountain range area. The trip covered only 4,800 km (3,000 miles) horizontally, but involved a lot of vertical travelling, including several treks into the mountains. The highest point attained by Palin was Everest Base Camp at 5,300 metres (17,500 feet). A book by the same name written by Palin was published to accompany the series. This book contained both Palin's text and many pictures by Basil Pao, the stills photographer on the team. Basil Pao also produced a separate book of the photographs he took during the journey, Inside Himalaya, a large coffee-table style book printed on glossy paper. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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