Wings Over Everest

Wings Over Everest (1934)

A documentary about the first flight over Mt Everest. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2014.

Date of release
1934-12-31
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (10)
Runtime
32m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Ivor Montagu, Geoffrey Barkas

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Novelty

Wings over Everest is a 1934 British short documentary film directed by Geoffrey Barkas and Ivor Montagu.

Production

The flight used two aircraft that took off from Purnea, India on 3 April 1933. One aircraft was Westland PV-3 which had undergone some additional changes, and the other aircraft was a Westland PV-6. Lord Clydesdale flew the PV-3 and Lieutenant David McIntyre in the PV-6. The aircraft were not pressurized but they did use bottled oxygen.

Aerial photos would go onto be used by mountaineers including Tenzing and Hillary's expedition which reached the summit on foot. The aerial photos were made on a second flight on 19 April 1933 as during the first flight there was a dusty haze that obscured the photographs from the 3 April flight.

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