''The Epic of Everest'' is a 1924 documentary about the Mallory and Irvine Mount Everest expedition. After a digital restoration in 2013, the film was re-released in UK cinemas. The publicity surrounding the film provoked a diplomatic incident, the "

Affair of the Dancing Lamas The Affair of the Dancing Lamas was an Anglo–Tibetan diplomatic controversy stemming mainly from the visit to Britain in 1924–25 of a party of Tibetan monks (only one of whom was a lama) as part of a publicity stunt for ''The Epic of Everest ...

", that delayed future expeditions and may have destabilised the Tibetan government. "Captain John Noel was the official photographer on the 1924 British Expedition to Mount Everest, famed for the tragic loss of mountaineers,

George Mallory George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s. Born in Cheshire, Mallory became a student at Winchester ...

and Andrew Irvine. Noel was an adventurous explorer who had tried but failed to get to Everest through Tibet in 1913. It is this centenary that the

BFI The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, ...

is celebrating with the restoration of his film, which Noel financed himself and released as ''The Epic of Everest'' in 1924. He toured extensively around the world, lecturing with the film footage and beautiful colour slides." In 2020, the restored print was selected by the

BFI London Film Festival The BFI London Film Festival is an annual film festival founded in 1957 and held in the United Kingdom, running for two weeks in October with co-operation from the British Film Institute. It screens more than 300 films, documentaries and shor ...

for inclusion in We Are One: A Global Film Festival, an online film festival organized during the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ...

.Jeremy Kay
"We Are One global film festival announces line-up"
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Screen Daily ''Screen International'' is a British film magazine covering the international film business. It is published by Media Business Insight, a British B2B media company. The magazine is primarily aimed at those involved in the global film business. ...

'', 27 May 2020.

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* * 1924 films 1924 documentary films Black-and-white documentary films Films about Mount Everest Documentary films about climbing British black-and-white films British silent feature films British sports documentary films 1920s British films Silent adventure films {{UK-documentary-film-stub

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