Product Details

• Actors: Leo Dickinson Chris Dewhirst
• Directors: Leo Dickinson, Leo Dickinson Chris Dewhirst
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: April 15, 2000
• Run Time: 52 minutes
• ASIN: 0970816944
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #425,673 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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A marvelous chronicle of an airborne voyage over earth's highest peak by Leo Dickinson in a hot air balloon.

Product Description

First Balloon Flight over Everest - 1991, filmed by highly acclaimed adventure film maker Leo Dickinson. Winner of "Silver Gentian" award at the Trento Mountain Film Festival.

In a field near the Nepalese hamlet of Gokyo, four men climb into two fragile wicker baskets and pour flame into their hot air balloons. Rising powerfully into the skies, their crafts follow a course towards the highest place on earth - Everest.

For Leo Dickinson and Chris Dewhirst, the cameraman and pilot in one of the balloons, the flight will settle old scores after three previous attempts and several life threatening crashes.

The expedition planning took some 10 years to come to fruition. And the expedition itself involved no less than 150 porters, 50 yaks, various meteorologists, intense arguments and many bemused locals. This extraordinary documentary follows Leo Dickinson's journey from Kathmandu in an old fashioned flying machine, which eventually crash lands in a remote corner of Tibet. You will see some of the most spectacular footage imaginable and the most astonishing mountain footage we are ever likely to see, as the balloon drifts over the highest point on earth.

52 minutes, color, NTSC format, digitally remastered.

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