The Ghosts Above: An Everest Mystery

Renan Ozturk joins an expedition to solve the Mount Everest mystery of who reached the summit first

Feature type Video

Read time 40 min read

Published Dec 14, 2020

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Photographer and filmmaker Renan Ozturk joins an expedition to solve the Mount Everest mystery of who reached the summit first. Documenting the struggles of the expedition and the their conflicting emotions, the team searches for the long lost body of Andres “Sandy” Irvine, who disappeared along with climbing partner George Mallory in their 1924 attempt to reach the summit.

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