The original design for the 1953 Everest expedition boot is still held in Kettering.
One of the boots used in the first expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest "still works" 71 years after the achievement.
Sir Edmund Hillary sent a letter of thanks to SATRA and asked where the boots could be bought commercially News of their achievement did not reach the outside world until 2 June, the eve of the Queen's coronation, and Hillary was later knighted.
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