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aka WILDEST DREAM: CONQUEST OF EVEREST
Year: 2010
USA: National Geographic
UK: National Geographic / Serengeti Entertainment
Cast (voices of): Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Hugh
Dancy, Alan Rickman, Leo Houlding, Liam Neeson (narrator)
Director: Anthony Geffen
Country: USA
USA & UK: 94 mins
USA Rated: PG for thematic elements involving hardships of
climbing, and some historical smoking images
UK Certificate: PG contains images of a frozen body
USA Release Date: 6 August 2010
UK Release Date: 24 September 2010
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Synopsis
This stunning feature documentary directed by Emmy® award winning
filmmaker Anthony Geffen retraces British explorer George
Mallory’s final attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest in
1924 and become the first person to conquer the world’s highest
peak.
Dressed in gabardine and wearing hobnailed boots, Mallory risked
everything in pursuit of his dream. He was last seen alive just 800
feet below the mountain’s peak, before the clouds closed in and he
disappeared into legend. Mallory’s death stunned the world.
In 1999, renowned mountaineer Conrad Anker discovered Mallory’s
frozen body high in the mountain’s “death zone” and his life
became intertwined with Mallory’s story. Remarkably, all
Mallory’s belongings were found intact on his body. The only thing
missing was a photograph of his wife, Ruth, which Mallory had
promised to place on the summit if he succeeded. Haunted by the
story, Anker returns to Everest to solve the enduring mystery
surrounding the ill-fated expedition and the disappearance of one of
the world’s greatest explorers.
THE WILDEST DREAM: CONQUEST OF EVEREST is a story of obsession and
breathtaking adventure, told through the explorer’s poignant and
evocative correspondence with his wife and using previously unseen
photos and archive footage. Anker and British rock-climbing prodigy
Leo Houlding embark on their own quest to conquer Everest, following
the original North East Ridge route taken by Mallory in 1924 to
discover whether he and fellow climber Andrew “Sandy” Irvine
could have reached the summit. In their attempt they must free climb
the infamous Second Step, a 90 foot sheer rock wall, just as Mallory
and Irvine would have had to do eight decades earlier.
THE WILDEST DREAM: CONQUEST OF EVEREST is narrated by Liam Neeson
and features the voices of Ralph Fiennes as George Mallory, the late
Natasha Richardson as Ruth Mallory, Hugh Dancy as Andrew “Sandy”
Irvine and Alan Rickman as Noel Odell, the last person to see
Mallory alive. The film is directed by Anthony Geffen in his first
collaboration with executive producer Mike Medavoy, who has been
behind seven Best Picture Academy Award-winning films.
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