Hard as it may seem to believe, I found a movie about Everest I have not seen before… The Conquest of Everest. This 1953 movie was filmed while Hillary and Tenzing were summitting Everest for the first time in history.
The ‘home movie’ feel to the film along with the melodramatic background music and British narrator make it a classic in my mind. The slow pace of the movie and the camera angles make Everest appear to be a much more formidable challenge than some of the slicker more current movies do.
But, what was the most incredible was that they smoked cigarettes and pipes along the way. Crazy.