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Wings Over Everest

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Wings over Everest

Directed by Geoffrey Barkas


Ivor Montagu

Cinematography S. R. Bonnett
A. L. Fisher
J. Rosenthal

Release date  June 1934

Running time 22 minutes

Country United Kingdom

Language English

Wings over Everest is a 1934 British short documentary film directed by Geoffrey Barkas and Ivor
Montagu. It won an Academy Award in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Novelty).[1] It described the 1933
Houston-Westland expedition, in which Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton,
otherwise known as Lord Clydesdale, piloted a single-engined biplane on 3 April 1933, just
clearing Everest's southern peak by a few feet, having been caught in a powerful
downdraught.[2] The film used mixture of real footage of Everest from the record-breaking flight and
theatrically produced scenes using the actual people rather than actors.[3]
The flight used two aircraft that took off from Purnea, India on 3 April 1933.[4] One aircraft
was Westland PV-3 which had undergone some additional changes, and the other aircraft was
a Westland PV-6.[4] Lord Clydesdale flew the PV-3 and Lieutenant David McIntyre in the PV-6.[4] The
aircraft were not pressurized but they did use bottled oxygen.[4]
As mentioned, the film about this flight won an Oscar in the United States in 1936, in addition, aerial
photos would go onto be used by mountaineers including Tenzing and Hillary's expedition which
reached the summit on foot.[5] 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.[6]

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