In August 2010, I’ll be checking out this film for sure! National Geographic Entertainment will be showing The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest, a film about George Mallory and whether or not he made the first successful summit bid of Everest in 1924.
In 1999, the mountaineer Conrad Anker found Mallory’s body on Everest. Everything was intact except for the picture of his wife Ruth, which Mallory had promised to place on the summit. Did he succeed or not? Apparently this movie will explore it in detail.
There is a biography of George Mallory of the same title, The Wildest Dream, that is now out of print.