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The Epic of Everest is a 1924 documentary about the Mallory and Irvine Mount Everest expedition. After a digital restoration in 2013, the film was re-released in UK cinemas. [ 1 ] The publicity surrounding the film provoked a diplomatic incident, the " Affair of the Dancing Lamas ", that delayed future expeditions and may have destabilised the ...
The 1924 British Mount Everest expedition was—after the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition—the 2nd expedition with the goal of achieving the first ascent of Mount Everest. [ 1 ] : 1 After two summit attempts in which Edward Norton set a world altitude record of 8,572.8 metres (28,126 ft), [ 1 ] : 11 the mountaineers George Mallory and ...
The Tibetan "lamas" in London, December 1924. The Affair of the Dancing Lamas was an Anglo–Tibetan diplomatic controversy stemming mainly from the visit to Britain in 1924–25 of a party of Tibetan monks (only one of whom was a lama) as part of a publicity stunt for The Epic of Everest – the official film of the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition.
Briton Andrew Irvine went missing in 1924 alongside climbing partner George Mallory as the pair attempted to be the first to reach Everest's summit, 8,848 meters (29,029 feet) above sea level.
The 1924 expedition, including Irvine and Mallory (top two left), aimed to be the first documented ascent of the mountain. - J.B. Noel/Royal Geographical Society/Getty Images
John Noel on Everest. John Baptist Lucius Noel FRGS (26 February 1890 – 12 March 1989) was a British mountaineer and filmmaker best known for his film of the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition. His father, Colonel Edward Noel (1852–1917), was the younger son of Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough.
Days earlier the expedition had discovered an oxygen canister from 1933, and offhand, Chin wondered if any sign of the earlier, ill-fated 1924 expedition by George Mallory and Andrew “Sandy ...
Everest expedition Theodore Howard Somervell OBE , FRCS (16 April 1890 – 23 January 1975) was an English surgeon, mountaineer , painter and missionary who was a member of two expeditions to Mount Everest in the 1920s, and then spent nearly 40 years working as a doctor in India .