Wings Over Everest (1934)
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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-Westland 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.
It won an Academy Award in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Novelty).
It described the 1933 Houston-Westland 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.