The Wildest Dream: Everest

Robin Capper

Robin Capper

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Just finished watching 'The Wildest Dream: Everest' (recorded from Sky NZ BBC Knowledge recently) and it was magnificent.

Still surreal to think I will be there*, gasping that air, looking at that mountain in a few weeks...

When it finished live TV was showing the end of a docu-drama about the All Blacks winning the last World Cup. Seemed so bloody trivial in comparison!    
   
* we have a night at Everest Base Camp on the cycle trip

The Wildest Dream

http://thewildestdream.com/

In 1924, mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine set out to conquer Everest. It was their third attempt, and their last: they disappeared on the ascent, sparking an as-yet unanswered debate over whether or not they reached the summit.

The Wildest Dream uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory, the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad Anker, the mountaineer who finds Mallory's frozen remains 75 years later.

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