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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 ...
Brigadier-General The Honourable Charles Granville Bruce, CB, MVO (7 April 1866 – 12 July 1939) was a veteran Himalayan mountaineer and leader of the second and third British expeditions to Mount Everest in 1922 and 1924. In recognition of the former he was awarded a special prize at the conclusion of the first ever Winter Olympics.
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
Newly digitized letters shed light on mountaineer George Mallory’s hopes and fears about ascending Mount Everest, ... and especially into the 1924 expedition — his state of mind, his accurate ...
The film interweaves two stories, one about climber Conrad Anker (who discovered Mallory's body lying on Everest in 1999) returning to Everest to investigate Mallory's disappearance and the other a biography of Mallory told through letters (read by Ralph Fiennes and Natasha Richardson, in her final film), original film footage from the 1920s ...
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 .