On 8 June 1974 George Mallory and Andrew Irvine left their tent high on the slopes of Mount Everest and climbed into history. They were seen at 12.50pm, just 240 metres from the summit. Within minutes Mallory and Irvine had disappeared and were never seen again. For the next 75 years what had happened to them remained a mystery in the history of mountaineering. This documentary follows the BBC sponsored expedition in March 1999 to the North Face of Everest, in search of Mallory and Irvine, and explores the answers to the questions - could these two pioneering climbers have reached the summit, 29 years before Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay? When and how did they perish?
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ACMI Identifier
312257
Language
English
Audience classification
G
Subject categories
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Hillary, Edmund, Sir, 1919-
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Snow and ice climbing
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Mountaineering
Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Snow and ice climbing
Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Sports
People → Hillary, Edmund, Sir, 1919-
Places → Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
Television → Television programs
Television → Television programs → Television programs - Great Britain
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)