Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory and Irvine

Six blind Tibetan teenagers climb the Lhakpa-Ri peak of Mount Everest, led by seven-summit blind mountain-climber Erik Weihenmayer.

Runtime

1h 44m

Director

Lucy Walker

Cast

Gavin Attwood, Sally Berg, Sonam Bhumtso

An international team of climbers ascends Mt. Everest in the spring of 1996. The film depicts their lengthy preparations for the climb, their trek to the summit, and their successful return to Base Camp. It also shows many of the challenges the group faced, including avalanches, lack of oxygen, treacherous ice walls, and a deadly blizz...

Runtime

44m

Director

David Breashears, Greg MacGillivray

Cast

Liam Neeson, Ed Viesturs, Tracy Pfau

This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effort to ski down the world's tallest mountain.

Runtime

1h 26m

Director

Lawrence Schiller, Bruce Nyznik

Cast

Yūichirō Miura, Douglas Rain, Edmund Hillary

Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory, the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad Anker, the mountaineer who finds Mallory's frozen remains 75 years later.

Runtime

1h 34m

Director

Anthony Geffen

Cast

Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Conrad Anker

A documentary of the first successful expedition to the summit of Mount Everest. New Zealand's Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay climb Mount Everest in 1953.

Runtime

1h 18m

Cast

Meredith Edwards, Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay