THE EPIC OF EVEREST 1924 GEORGE MALLORY & ANDREW IRVINE DOCUMENTARY TIBET 90264
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2024
- Released by Kodak as part of its Kodascope Library in the 1920s, this short version of the famed silent film "The Epic of Everest" documents the Mallory and Irvine Mount Everest expedition. The movie was made in brutally harsh conditions by Captain John Noel, who financed it himself and shot it with a hand-cranked movie camera. The film contains some of the earliest filmed records of life in Tibet and features sequences at Phari Dzong (Pagri), Shekar Dzong (Xegar) and Rongbuk monastery. Noel, who had tried but failed to get to Everest through Tibet in 1913, released a long version of this documentary as The Epic of Everest in 1924 and lectured extensively around the world with it.
Filmmaker Captain John Noel was the official photographer on the 1924 British Expedition to Mount Everest. That expedition became legendary in part due to the tragic loss of mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, and the film ends with images of the monument erected to both climbers. A title card proclaims that the mountain remains "unconquered."
John Baptist Lucius Noel (26 February 1890 - 12 March 1989) was an English mountaineer and filmmaker best known for his film of the 1924 Mount Everest expedition. Noel was commissioned into the East Yorkshire Regiment in 1909 and posted to India. Noel's regiment spent summers near the Himalayas and in 1913 he travelled in disguise into Tibet in order to approach Mount Everest. After serving in Europe during the First World War, in 1919 he lectured about his travels near Everest to the Royal Geographical Society. Sir Francis Younghusband used the occasion to call for the ascent of Mount Everest in 1921. Noel eventually became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS). He joined the 1922 Everest expedition as its official photographer and filmmaker and produced a short film, Climbing Mount Everest (1922).
In 1924, Noel formed a private company which paid for the photographic rights of that year's Everest expedition. Noel reached the North Col and used a specially adapted camera to film the ascent of the peak. A note from George Mallory to Noel was the last contact with the lost explorer before his body was discovered in 1999. The disappearance of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine added drama to the film, The Epic of Everest (1924), but it was not a commercial success.
Noel brought to London a group of Tibetan monks which performed before screenings of the film; the performances of the "dancing lamas" offended Tibetan religious sensibilities and caused a breakdown in diplomatic relations between Britain and Tibet which became known as the "Affair of the Dancing Lamas" and which lasted nearly ten years. Noel lectured widely in North America and published a book about his adventures, Through Tibet to Everest (1927). After the first ascent of Everest in 1953, Noel lectured once again about the mountain and his footage and photographs appeared widely in many films and television programs
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Its so unbelievable to see what they saw back in the time, seeing their documentary is just so fascinating and gives me the chills. Its shocking that they hade the technology to take us back to their time, rest in peace 4 all the ppl thats still up there.
what aboy sherpas?
No world class equipment, no fixed rope. Just balls
Well said.
It's eerie watching this having the seen the documentary from 1990s which which sought to retrace Mallory's steps and eventually found his final resting place.
Don't forget to look for Andrew "Sandy" Irvine.
What documentary was that? Id like to watch it.
And to think the part where they show them off for the top thr next time we see gm is 75 years later in thevdame ckothes
@@yunalesca368 I think it's this one ua-cam.com/video/Z7KyVKop3sc/v-deo.html
There is no such thing as "conquering of a mountain". A mountain just allowes you to come for a visit.
This is part of CzechoSlovak climbing philosophy so strong in 70's and 80's.
Very moving. The snow! Mezmerizing! No wonder high mountaineering was so addictive.
It doesn't matter if Mallory and Irvine reached, the top of Everest, because both left their names in history by risking their own lives by climbing, with primitive equipment, this colossal titan.
Whats mind blowing is when they show malloru and itvine walking for their final push the next time we see mallory is 75 years later wearing tje same clothes on camera again....
They were actually around 300 ft from the summit if I was a betting man I would bet any amount of money they made it to the top and died trying to rush back down in the dark. Mallory most likely fell first and Irvine died trying to find Mallory. Irvine body was probably removed off the mountain.
I read somewhere that they were tied together by rope. When one of them fell the other got pulled along right next to them. Because Mallory's body had "rope-jerk" injuries? The rope got snapped by the force of the fall.
What do you mean Irvine body removed off the mountain? Somebody took it? It fell naturally very far?
@@yunalesca368 I would expect you could tell the difference between a rope that had snapped and a rope that was cut, yet I haven't seen any reports from the 1999 discovery discussing this.
@@dangryder6050 It's common knowledge.
@@ghostlyphantasm2352 How are they removing a body at 8000m in 1924?
This was restored by BFI few years ago with a new soundtrack composed by Simon Fisher Turner. Amazing movie
Can you please send me the link to the BFI restored documentary?
@@andrewairvine It's available on dvd and blu-ray, also from time to time on bbc iplayer. The soundtrack is available on spotify or google music. I haven't seen it on UA-cam though.
Wow. Thank you.
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Jeffrey Archer in his book 'Paths of Glory' tells about this story...deeply captivating and a must-read for anyone who has watched this film
Jeffrey Archer's book is a work of fiction, with many ridiculous inventions and fantasies. Far better to read the books by Davis, Hoyland, Anker, Breashears, Hemmleb, Firstbrook, Holzel/Salkeld etc, which examine and analyse the truth.
It is Reading Jeffrey Archer's book today that has brought me here. It is a terrific book. He makes no secret that he has added a lot of of untrue events but it makes it all the more readable. It is a book and I won't read it again but it is a book I will never forget.
Little did they know they are going to stay there forever. Everyone wants to believe they made it even experts say that .
Person who last saw them alive saw them via telescope and could have only spotted them in day time.
But Mallory's body was found with his goggles in his jacket that suggest he didn't needed them and that's only possible if it was night time. This also suggest that after being spotted 300ft from summit they continued until it was dark.
Being the climber he was its difficult to believe that he would have turned back we talking about Mallory here.
Main question is being alive in dark and 300ft from summit were they climbing up or descending?
Remember these are the guys who managed to reach this point using very primitive gear and equipment's.
I believe they made it based on these facts and his wifes photo was not with him nor with his gear back at camp.
That theory is used alot but he had extra pairs of goggles, in the last photo of him with Irvine you can see his spare. When Odell last saw them at 12.50 he estimated they could reach the summit about 4pm. He also said at about 3pm (within 2 hours) the weather cleared to full sunshine yet he and Captain John Noel never saw them again despite having cameras and telescopes fixed on the summit peak. If they summited you would think they would be spotted again on the summit ridge either going up or coming down sometime between 3pm and dusk.
It is hard to imagine they did not leave anything on the summit to mark they had done it (flag, some metal plate etc). But Hillary did not find anything on the summit.
@@marguskiis7711they never made it to the Summit!
❤❤❤😂 such enigmatic men, captivating the mesmerising dven now such fearless drive xx😊
Mallory became guardian of everest
Great EVEREST was more colder in 1924 than 2020.
11:14... is this footage of the final summit pyramid filmed by Noel Odel's telescope on the day Irvine and Mallory were spotted 600ft below the summit? It looks like there are climbers in frame 🤔
Cool upload 🙏
Nepal was closed at this time ... I believe they do it from Tibet....
Your belief is correct
Strange idea to film the mountain endlessly and not the people.
I have a postcard with an Everest stamp posted by runner to India ….sent by Captain Noel to my grandfather and passed down to me covering this ascent . Has anyone seen or heard of this stamp and card ? Sent from the base camp . Value ?
I've seem a few in exhibitions over time, at a London show this year one display had several. I've seen them on eBay for £45 or so. Depends on condition etc
@@mattgibbs73 Interesting …we’re they from Captain Noel , (the expedition photographer?) I would love to know .
I have faith they made it the picture of Ruth was missing and they were so exhausted by the time they made their descent they were so exhausted they and delirious they made the fatal mistake and slipped
Camera last seen "second track" ( track very difficult ). My analyst they successful reach summit and fall in return. They very first reach summit 1924
Men of Steel I believe they made it
Did you mean Andrew is scp 096
did they cut out the dancing lamas.. that banned britain for 10 years and had a hand in tibet being taken by china in 1950...??
Probably the reason they didnt climb on top is that they were trying to "Conquer" the mountain.They didnt belong there if it was only for their Ego and money
I wonder if it was even harder in the 20's because there was more ice before global warming?
Oh definitely was alot harder.
They didnt have all the equipment that we have now days..
And they were wearing tweed jackets
And they didn't have a known route to the summit, they were going into the death zone trying to find a way up through cliffs
@@WellyCoaster they also only had bottled oxygen that gave 2 hours each bottle and only 2 or 3 bottles each. Today each climber has 4 bottles with 4 hours oxygen in each for summit day. They would have run out of oxygen before they got to the top.
When films were actually filmed with a potato. 😆
Here they made it clear that mallory and irvine didn't made it... The everest remain unconquered... But still some mad people shouting that, mallory and irvine probably made it up there... Stupid thinking
is that all you do? go on various videos and say they didn't make it? while you yourself haven't climbed anything more than those small peaks in africa or middle east
@@1245aryan make an proof that they made it... It's not official...you yourself know it very well, so stop predictions... Of course they didn't made it... Or if u have proof, show it than come to bargain...
Where is your proof that they did not make it? You were not there to see. Neither were the cameras. It’s between Irvine, Mallory and the mountain.
@@iffatsharminislam7978 wow you’re an idiot, it being open to speculation on or not does not mean they definitely did not make it, it is just unknown whether they did or not. You seem to have some kinda personal agenda here so I’m not gonna engage further.
@@patrickclark1000 yes i draw folks attention to Schrodingers Cat