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1960

9 votes
A documentary about the first flight over Mt Everest. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2014.
Director
Geoffrey BarkasStatus
Released
Original Language
EN
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It had been barely thirty years since the Wright brothers had got a powered aircraft off the ground and now here we are with an intrepid crew of Britons planning to fly over the top of Mount Everest. To achieve this, they will need to sustain an altitude of around 30,000 feet, endure temperatures of -50° and winds of over an hundred miles an hour. They know that if anything goes wrong up there, then they haven’t an hope in hell. Using lots of archive of some really quite chilling aerial photography, this nicely edited feature takes us on a trip as they meticulously plan their trip before arriv…
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