Lost on Everest
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| Based on | The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest by Mark Synnott[1] |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | National Geographic |
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| Original release | June 30, 2020[2][3] |
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Lost on Everest is a 2020 National Geographic television documentary special directed by Renan Ozturk. It follows a team of experienced mountain climbers as they attempt to locate the body of Andrew "Sandy" Irvine and a camera that he possibly carried during the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition. The filmmakers hope the film in the camera will prove that Irvine and his climbing partner, George Mallory, summitted Mount Everest before dying on the descent.[3][4]
Background[edit]
Mallory and Irvine were last seen on June 8th, 1924 at 28,200 feet (8595 meters), placing them near the summit of Mount Everest.[5] In 1999, the BBC sponsored an expedition to locate the remains of the missing climbers.[2] Mallory's body was located by Conrad Anker at 26,700 ft (8140 m) on the North Face. However, Irvine and the men's Kodak camera were not found. Eastman Kodak technicians have proposed that the frozen film could possibly be salvaged.[5]
Synopsis[edit]
History officially recognizes Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary as the first to summit Mount Everest during the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition. However, mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine made an attempt in 1924, and they were last seen just "800 vertical feet from the summit."
Thom Pollard, a mountaineer and filmmaker, traveled with the 1999 Everest expedition that found Mallory's body. However, Irvine and the duo's vest pocket camera were not located. Mountaineer and writer, Mark Synnott, believes that the younger Irvine would have carried the camera to take pictures of the senior Mallory. Both Synnott and Pollard hope that, if the film is recovered, it could prove that the men were truly the first to summit Everest.
Everest historian Tom Holzel uses eyewitness accounts and aerial photographs to form a theory that Irvine's body is located on a small detour from the standard route on the North Face. Synnott and Pollard form a new expedition to travel to Everest and investigate Holzel's claim.
The team arrives at the North Base Camp at approximately 17,000ft (5180m) on the Tibetan Plateau, and they map out "Holzel's Spot" in more detail using drones. As the team climbs upward, they struggle to acclimatize to the high altitude and must endure bad weather. Meanwhile, the New York Times publishes photos of overcrowding on Everest, sparking criticism in the press. Pollard believes that, no matter how many people die on Everest, more will always attempt to climb it.
On Day 26 of the expedition, Pollard suffers a possible ministroke and the health risk ends his climb. The rest of the team carries on to Camp 2 and Camp 3. On day 30, they tackle the challenging First and Second Steps in the dark, before summiting at 29,035ft (8850m) in daylight. Along the way, the team encounters several corpses.
During their descent, the group identifies Holzel's Spot, which is marked by a recently deceased climber. Synnott unclips himself from the safety rope to search for Irvine on a rocky slope, despite a Sherpa's warnings. After a thorough search, Synnott finds no trace of Irvine or the vest pocket camera. He thinks the body, last seen by Chhiring Dorje in 1995, has since fallen off the North Face into a cravass and is likely lost. As a father of four, Synnott regrets having gone so far from the safety rope. He meditates on how ambition can cause humans to cross a point of no return, as Mallory and Irvine did.
Production[edit]
In 2019, the documentary crew and team of professional climbers traveled to Mount Everest to test Holzel's theory that Irvine's body was located in "the Yellow Band," an area at an altitude of 27,641ft (8425m). The documentary crew used Mavic Pro and Inspire2 drones to film aerial shots. To make sure the drones could perform in the intense weather and high altitude, they were tested in a hyperbaric chamber at a NASA subfacility. Ozturk described the physical toll as painful and persistent, having said, "It's not like you acclimatize and it goes away. It just continues to compound the more time you spend up there."[6]
In addition to searching for Irvine, Ozturk felt the documentary "was trying to give the world a really honest look at what [climbing] Everest is, because it’s become such a polarized thing." His statement was in response to the controversy of mountain climbers creating bottlenecks in the death zone while going for the summit.[4][7] Specifically, a photo of a long queue to the top of Everest was published in the New York Times on May 26th, drawing international attention while the documentary was filming.[8]
References[edit]
- ↑ Laura Knoy (April 13, 2021). "The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest". nhpr.org. New Hampshire Public Radio. Retrieved April 27, 2023.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ellen Gutoskey (June 30, 2020). "Expeditions Gather Climate Change Clues on Mount Everest in Two New Documentaries". mentalfloss.com. Minute Media. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Lost on Everest First Look". nationalgeographic.com. NGC Network US, LLC. 15 June 2020. Retrieved April 27, 2023.
Lost on Everest premieres Tuesday, June 30 at 9/8c.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mandi Bierly (6 June 2020). "'Lost on Everest' Offers 'a Really Honest Look' at Climbing the Mountain (VIDEO)". tvinsider.com. NTVB Media, Inc. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Mark Synnott (8 April 2022). "The Mount Everest mystery deepens: Was there an international cover-up of a dead climber's ascent?". Salon.com. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
- ↑ Jennifer Ouelette (30 June 2020). "NatGeo expedition hunts for 1924 climber's body in Lost on Everest documentary". arstechnica.com. Condé Nast. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
- ↑ Sinéad Baker (24 May 2019). "Mount Everest is so crowded that climbers are dying after being forced to queue in the 'death zone' while waiting to reach the summit, expedition companies say". Insider.com. Insider Inc. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
- ↑ Kai Schultz, Jeffrey Gettleman, Mujib Mashal Bhadra Sharma (26 May 2019). "'It Was Like a Zoo:' Death on an Unruly, Overcrowded Everest". The New York Times Company. Archived from the original on 2019-05-26. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
A long line of climbers waiting to summit Mount Everest on May 22.
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