Lost On Everest - The Search For Mallory & Irvine. 5/5

[Pighaterskater]

grave robbers

[455cui]

Great story

[motocrossboy204]

Awesome story

[EEN9B]

Great documentary, and I was moved by the passion of the climbers for the story of Mallory and Irvine!

[morphybum]

Thank you for including the credits - a very good film. Anyone interested in this should read 'Into the Silence' by Wade Davis, one of the books of the year.

[curlymii]

Yes this was a fascinating documentary i remember when this was first aired i believe on good old BBC2. This is the final frontier inwhich man can venture on his feet, i would love to do it, but now i like to sit in awe and celebrate those who have achieved there mountain, but we have different mountains/challenges to climb which are perilous our own lives itself that we face day to day. However great video thanks for uploading it

[1234567890griff]

The BBC take it too the next level.

[OregonPaul10]

Also recommend The Wildest Dream (on instant Netflix). When body of Mallory is found, goggles were in his pocket and the photo of his wife was nowhere in his pockets. Significance: He was seen with Irvine about 800 feet from the summit during the light of day. He would have put his goggles in his pocket during the descent in the darkness--on the way down. There were papers in his pockets but no photo, which he promised to place on the summit!

[johntechwriter]

I don't have much respect for today's "Everest tourists" who fork over $30K and in return are virtually carried up the mountain. OTOH after watching this, and having known a few wild men like Mallory, I'm inclined toward guessing he made it to the summit. And he was caught out by the waning of the day, as are so many of today's Everest climbers, who have vastly superior survival resources.

[blueleadguitar]

Amazing and fantastic documentary, thanks for uploading. I respect anyone who climbs Everest, whether they succeed or not.

[mahound9]

It's an unpaid bill.

Yeah, he was going to return all of the climbing gear for a refund when he got back down.

[sancho1020]

This story of Mallory and Irvine lost on the top of the world is really a mistery after 80 years and so far this accomplishments didn't prove if they had gone eventually on the summit. We all like to think they succeded because of their courage and ability.

[Billieboy43]

this is an fantastic documentary....thx for this....

[Cosmoline]

There's no way they made it. They were already badly dehydrated when they started for the final attempt, and had no means of making water. I suspect they grew exhausted, disoriented and met their end as a result. In the 1920's the critical importance of hydration was not well understood.

[davidleealford]

@Cosmoline they had been at Everest for quite awhile and did more climbing during that time that most teams do today who come in rather quickly and make their effort. This also was not M's first attempt. I don't think water was as big an issue as you propose. They were probably very well acclimated. It's the minimal clothes that make their effort just fantastic. Very likely they were returning late in the day. What did they do with all those hours...? IMO, they either summitted or came close.

[poetsdontknowit]

@Cosmoline that was discovered in the 1921 attempt. mallory, norton, morshead and somervell after reaching 27,000ft somehow staggered back to camp 3, barely alive and not knowing why they felt so bad but they were literally evaporating away, at that altitude their body fluids were evaporating into thin air.

somervell drank 17 cups of tea so the docs figured dehydration had something to do with it.

they were the trailblazers, they were pushing the boundaries of human physiology to the limit.

[calinapetroaie]

incredible...

[Sicofonia]

Thanks for sharing this documentary.

[akula5151]

Don't know if they figured this out but in the letter P.C. means Post Card

[SvenTviking]

Of course! His brother was Air marshal Trafford Leigh Mallory, famous WW2 RAF commander.

[Jolinator]

great upload thanks alot