Epic of Everest
The Epic of Everest (1925) by John Noel a matinee screening to accompany Vanishing a talk by Mark Power about his newly published Tibetan Sketchbook will take place at the Phoenix Cinema, East Finchley at 2:15 pm on 6th December 2025. Synopsis We know that George Mallory and his young climbing companion Sandy Irvine vanished on Mount Everest in 1924 whilst attempting to be first to reach the highest point on Earth. We do not know if they got there. A hundred years on, this mystery continues to haunt our imaginations in a way that many successful ascents since do not. Why should this be? Join Mark Power and pictures from his sketchbook on his 2024 trek in the footsteps of the lost explorers and their ambitions, as he searches for answers in the Himalayan landscape: intimacy, immensity, wonder, risk, revelation, in the presence of absence. His journey starts here in East Finchley and culminates - because it’s there - in a face-to-face encounter with the great mountain Chomolungma. John Noel’s silent documentary film (1925) that follows Mark’s talk records Mallory’s heroic, but ultimately doomed adventure, as it metamorphoses from gallant newsreel to wistful elegy, and prepares us for Mark’s final thought-provoking challenge. When George Mallory and Sandy Irvine attempted to reach the summit of Everest in 1924 they came closer than any previous attempt. Inspired by the work of Herbert Ponting (The Great White Silence) Captain Noel filmed in the harshest of conditions, with specially adapted equipment, to capture the drama of the fateful expedition.DocumenatryPT2HPG2025-12-06Andrew Irvine
George Mallory
J.B.L. Noel
Epic of Everest"Epic of Everest"Showtimes
December 6, 2:15 pm
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