- Meredith Edwards
- Narrator
- John Hunt
- Self (Army Officer)
- George Band
- Self (Student)
- Tom Bourdillon
- Self (Research Scientist)
- Charles Evans
- Self (Surgeon)
- Alfred Gregory
- Self (Travel Agent)
- Edmund Hillary
- Self (Bee Keeper)
- George Lowe
- Self (Schoolmaster)
- Wilfred Noyce
- Self (Schoolmaster)
- Griffith Pugh
- Self (Physiologist)
- Thomas Stobart
- Self (Film Technician)
- Tenzing Norgay
- Self (Sherpa Sirdar)
- Michael Ward
- Self (Doctor)
- Michael Westmacott
- Self (Statistician)
- Charles Wylie
- Self (Army Officer)
- Jan Morris
- Self (James Morris, correspondent, London Times)
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Self (in coronation carriage)
- Eric Shipton
- Self (leader, 1951 expedition)
