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The Conquest of Everest (1953)

Documentary | 78 minutes
3,52 29 votes

Genre: Documentary / Adventure

Duration: 78 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: George Lowe

Stars: Meredith Edwards, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

IMDb score: 7,3 (1.082)

Releasedate: 9 December 1953

The Conquest of Everest plot

Mount Everest. At 8,870 meters, the highest mountain in the world. Since the early 1900s, adventurous mountaineers have tried in vain to reach the top. On May 29, 1953, New Zealand beekeeper Edmund Hillary and Indian Sherpa Tensing Norkay finally succeeded and entered the realm of legend. We get to see footage of the 1922 and 1924 expeditions, followed by the careful preparation, during which Hillary and his people could count on the most modern technical gadgets to get them ready for the tough assignment.

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GZN

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Historic footage of the expedition that led to the first successful summit climb of Mount Everest. Filmed high up on the mountain.

I have just visited the area myself and read a book about this expedition. That was the reason to watch this documentary. I can imagine that someone without this prior knowledge will quickly find it slow and boring. For me very interesting.

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Lovelyboy

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Why do you want to climb it?

Because it's there.

As a snack, I started watching this documentary on Netflix about the first successful ascent of Mount Everest. And that turned out to be a more than excellent program, where a subject like Everest can always count on great interest for me. So it wasn't a difficult choice to start something like this.

One of the few downsides, if it is a downside, concerns the rather long run-up to the final climb and the somewhat dry narration with voice-over typical of that time. Somewhere the monotonous voice takes the pace out of it, on the other hand it is also kind of part of it. On the other hand, there is the extensive preparation of the men with the novelties of that time, in addition, the differences in altitude with, for example, the St. Paul Cathedral and well-known mountains on different continents are beautifully shown. And then there is the journey itself where everything has to be done via Tibet with the help of cable cars plus the fact that it is quite a journey to get to the foot of Everest.

When the foot of the mountain is reached, the real work finally seems to begin, where it is astonishing to what height they have continued to follow and film. And what beautiful images that produces, full of nostalgia with all those old-fashioned clothes and enormous oxygen tanks, not to forget that these are real adventurers, men of steel, and not the day trippers who nowadays queue for 'the summit'. I immediately admit that this is a bit exaggerated, because those people can certainly climb and are fitter and more daring than I am, but the charm of the special thing of reaching the top of Everest is somewhat lost by such practices.

But that has nothing to do with this documentary, which is more than good and captures the real risks, suffering and hardships more than well.

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