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Wings Over Everest is a British film of genre Documentary directed by Geoffrey Barkas released in USA on 19 july 1935
Wings Over Everest (1934)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 19 july 1935
Length 42minutes
Directed by Geoffrey Barkas
OriginUnited-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Rating59%
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). 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.
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Le film raconte l'expédition ayant eu lieu en 1933 au cours de laquelle le pilote écossais Douglas Douglas-Hamilton (connu sous le nom de Lord Clydesdale) a piloté un avion biplan monomoteur au-dessus du sommet de l'Everest. Deux avions sont partis de l'aérodrome de Purnea en Inde le 3 avril 1933. Les avions, des Westland PV-3 et PV-6 n'étaient pas pressurisés mais embarquaient des bouteilles d'oxygène.Comments
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