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Quiet, please. Quiet, please. The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Quiet, Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper and with speakers Ernest Chappell. Quiet, please, for tonight is called How Beautiful Upon the Mountains. I don't say that Mount Everest will never be successfully climbed. I don't say that at all. What I do say, however, is that no one will ever successfully climb Everest and come back. Yes, I know they said that about the Matterhorn, and Edwar…

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Cast›

A

Albert Buhrman

E

Ernest Chappell

R

Roy Irving

Network›

M

Mutual net

Network

An excellent story about an early expedition to attempt to climb Mount Everest...and what they found near the top!

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Quiet, Please, Episode 48

How Beautiful upon the Mountain

Monday, May 3, 1948 · 29:24

Quiet, Please, Episode 48

How Beautiful upon the Mountain

Monday, May 3, 1948 · 29:24

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