Airdate: The Wildest Dream: Conquest Of Everest
ABC1 will air a documentary special on George Mallory, the first person to conquer the world's highest peak.
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ABC1 will air a documentary special on George Mallory, the first person to conquer the world’s highest peak, Mt. Everest and mountaineering partner Sandy Irvine.
It is narrated by Liam Neeson.
Later on the same night ABC will air a behind-the-scenes companion program – Everest: Shooting The Impossible, documenting the shooting of the film in one of the most inhospitable environments on Earth.
Mount Everest – twenty-nine thousand feet the highest point on Earth captivating and deadly.
In the 1920s to conquer Mount Everest was the greatest challenge remaining in a golden age of adventure. Everest was the edge of heaven, where many believed no human could survive.
George Mallory dreamed of being the first man to climb Everest but on June 8th 1924, dressed in gabardine and hobnailed boots, he and his fellow climber Sandy Irvine, were last seen eight hundred feet below the summit.
Seventy five years after Mallory and Irvine vanished, mountaineer Conrad Anker, took part in an expedition looking for their bodies high on Everest.
The Wildest Dream: Conquest Of Everest is a stunning feature documentary retracing Mallory’s final attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1924 and become the first person to conquer the world’s highest peak.
Told through the poignant and evocative letters between Mallory and his beloved wife Ruth, the film combines previously unseen archive photos, specially restored film footage and dramatisation, with the present day story of Anker’s expedition.
The Wildest Dream: Conquest Of Everest airs 8:30pm Sunday,21 August 2011 on ABC1.
Everest: Shooting The Impossible follows at 10.00pm on ABC2.
4 Responses
@Njk – you’re right – missed that part of the announcement. It’s wrong. Mallory only may have gotten there first.
@JMGirl…I know he Might have…but that’s not the same as saying “The first person to conquer the world’s highest peak”. There’s no definitive proof and we’ll never know, so no-one can say for sure that he was the first. Let’s refer to that infallible bible called Wikipedia:
“Whether or not Mallory and Irvine reached the summit before they died remains a subject of speculation and continuing research.”
@NJK – actually, that’s the whole point about Mallory – he may in fact have gotten there first, 28 yrs before Hillary. That’s the great mystery, and the reason to watch the show. Amazing story – have a look online and read into it.
Umm, I think you will find be wasn’t the first person to conquer everest! That title belongs to Edmund Hillary. Mallory tried but was never seen again.