Just when it seems that all the mystery has been removed from Mount Everest, leave it to National Geographic Entertainment to figure out a way to add to the legend.
NGE’s new film, “The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest,” follows renowned American mountaineer Conrad Anker as he replicates the ill-fated 1924 expedition of British explorer George Mallory, the man some believe was the first to summit the world’s tallest peak. Anker discovered Mallory’s remains high in Everest’s “death zone” in 1999, motivating his return in 2007 to retrace the North East Ridge Route using the same equipment and techniques Mallory and his partner would have had 83 years earlier.
Anker’s quest for answers mirrors the famous reply from Mallory to a reporter’s question about his reason for climbing Everest: “Because it’s there.”
That also may be reason enough to visit the Denver Museum of Nature and Science when the film opens Friday with shows at 1 p.m. daily, at 5 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and at 7 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
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