Wildest Dream, The: Conquest of Everest
Liam Neeson narrates this educational, awe-inspiring, suspenseful, melodramatic documentary filled with stunning scenery that uses still photographs; archival film footage; interview snippets with Mallory's granddaughter Susan Robertson, biographer Peter Gillman, tutor and mountaineer Robert MacFarlane, Conrad's wife Jennifer Lowe-Anker, Julie Summers (great niece of Andrew Sandy Irvine); and readings from letters by actors Hugh Dancy, Natasha Richardson, Ralph Fiennes, and Alan Rickman to chronicle Montana mountaineer Conrad Anker and novice high-altitude British climber Leo Houlding as they reenact in 2007 the historic Mount Everest climb of legendary British explorer Sir George Leigh Mallory and his team in 1924 via the North East Ridge route.
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