Wings Over Everest
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title:
Wings Over Everest
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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-Mount Everest flight 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. The film used mixture
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1934 film
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_Over_Everest
date created:
2008-05-12T18:06:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T04:26:09Z
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