Wings Over Everest

6/28/2025

It had been barely thirty years since the Wright brothers had got a powered aircraft off the ground and now here we are with an intrepid crew of Britons planning to fly over the top of Mount Everest. To achieve this, they will need to sustain an altitude of around 30,000 feet, endure temperatures of -50° and winds of over an hundred miles an hour. They know that if anything goes wrong up there, then they haven’t an hope in hell. Using lots of archive of some really quite chilling aerial photography, this nicely edited feature takes us on a trip as they meticulously plan their trip before arriving in northern India and then Nepal to prepare. Meantime, the agrarian population look on in wonder as their kit arrives and takes to the air for practice flights. Their aircraft have open cockpits a