Overview
Following in the footsteps of Captain John Noel and his immensely popular documentaries taken on the Mount Everest expeditions of the 1920s ("Climbing Mount Everest"/"The Epic of Everest"), Frank Smythe hoped to help finance his 1931 attempt on Kamet, another Himalayan peak, by bringing back film footage of a successful ascent including summit shots which were at that time the highest ever taken in the world.
Director and cast
- Frank Smythe as Self - expedition leader
- E. St. John Birnie as Self - expeditioner
- E. Bentley Beauman as Self - expeditioner
- C. Raymond Greene as Self - expedition physician (as Dr. C. Raymond Greene)
- R.L. Holdsworth as Self - expeditioner
- Eric Shipton as Self-expeditioner
- Lewa as Self - Sherpa
- Nema Dorje as Self - Sherpa
- Nima Tendrup as Self - Sherpa
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