Saturday, October 31, 2009
A New Movie Out
Click on the text to read the New York Times Review of "The Wildest Dream." This is a documentary about Mallory and his ill-fated 1924 attempt on Everest. The movie has already had its limited release, and will begin to play nation-wide in April. The Times said: “The Wildest Dream” is devised as a kind of “Julie & Julia” for the rugged. It follows Conrad Anker, an Everest veteran, and Leo Houlding, his protégé, through an attempt in 2007 to mimic, if not quite duplicate, the ill-fated climb in which both Mallory and his companion, Andrew Irvine, died near the summit