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

On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine left their tent high up on the slopes of Mount Everest and climbed into history. They were seen at 12:50 pm just 800 feet from the summit and "going strong for the top". Within minutes, Mallory and Irvine had disappeared in a snowstorm and were never seen alive again.

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Education

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• Everest
• Mallory
• Irvine
• Mountain
• Climbing
• History
• Mystery

[Billieboy43]

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

[blueleadguitar]

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

[RedDragon0719]

When men were men. Thanks for the upload

[Pighaterskater]

grave robbers

[455cui]

Great story

[motocrossboy204]

Awesome story

[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.

[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!