Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Thom Pollard discusses his expedition experiences in 1999 and 2019 as they search to solve the Mystery of Mallory and Irvine on Mt Everest! Enjoy this free show, and if you can support, please use the links below. Thank you!
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This film is a virtual event hosted by Musa Masala to raise awareness for safe and ethical mountain travel, featuring filmmaker and mountaineer Thom Pollard and the Mystery of Mallory & Irvine.
In Thoms words:
I played a part in two historic expeditions that were organized to solve the mystery. My entry into the 1999 expedition was my previous experience filming at altitude. Before departure in March of 1999 for Nepal I remarked to my dad while driving to the airport that there was no way in hell that we'd ever find anything. I sure was wrong. The discovery of George Mallory on 1 May 1999 set off a change in my life, having sold my photographs of the search and site of GLM's body to National Geographic Magazine. Those were the first photos I ever sold. 20 years later I returned, nagged all that time in between by the idea that the spirit of Sandy Irvine was still stuck on the mountain.
I'm not an archaeologist and surely was not trained or prepared to be one of the six people to ever (with permission from the Irvine and Mallory families) search the site. Knowing what I know now, if I had it all to do over again, of course I'd change a few things.
This presentation is really just my story. If one is interested in learning more about the Mystery of Mallory and Irvine I ask that they read any book by Jochen Hemmleb on the subject, as well as Mark Synnott's 2021 account of our expedition called The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest.
PLEASE VISIT the Musa Masala website to learn about this truly awesome organization: expert advice on safe, healthy and culturally aware mountain travel, and benefiting the construction of The Wongchhu Sherpa Memorial Hospital, at:
musamasala.com
đ·Photo: The boot containing a sock bearing Irvine's name and the remains of a foot. (Image credit: Jimmy Chin)
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For more information about Thom Dharma Pollard:
eyesopenproductions.com
Thom Pollard discusses his expedition experiences in 1999 and 2019 as they search to solve the Mystery of Mallory and Irvine on Mt Everest! Enjoy this free show, and if you can support, please use the links below. Thank you!
Donate to Musa Masala: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/musam...
Check out our store: musamasala.com/the-musa-store
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THIS CHANNEL
PLEASE VISIT THE SPONSOR OF THIS PRESENTATION, Musa Masala, at: musamasala.com/about-musa
Enjoy this free show, and please support the host of this program using the links below. Thank you!
Donate to Musa Masala: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/musam...
Check out thier store: musamasala.com/the-musa-store
This film is a virtual event hosted by Musa Masala to raise awareness for safe and ethical mountain travel, featuring filmmaker and mountaineer Thom Pollard and the Mystery of Mallory & Irvine.
In Thoms words:
I played a part in two historic expeditions that were organized to solve the mystery. My entry into the 1999 expedition was my previous experience filming at altitude. Before departure in March of 1999 for Nepal I remarked to my dad while driving to the airport that there was no way in hell that we'd ever find anything. I sure was wrong. The discovery of George Mallory on 1 May 1999 set off a change in my life, having sold my photographs of the search and site of GLM's body to National Geographic Magazine. Those were the first photos I ever sold. 20 years later I returned, nagged all that time in between by the idea that the spirit of Sandy Irvine was still stuck on the mountain.
I'm not an archaeologist and surely was not trained or prepared to be one of the six people to ever (with permission from the Irvine and Mallory families) search the site. Knowing what I know now, if I had it all to do over again, of course I'd change a few things.
This presentation is really just my story. If one is interested in learning more about the Mystery of Mallory and Irvine I ask that they read any book by Jochen Hemmleb on the subject, as well as Mark Synnott's 2021 account of our expedition called The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest.
PLEASE VISIT the Musa Masala website to learn about this truly awesome organization: expert advice on safe, healthy and culturally aware mountain travel, and benefiting the construction of The Wongchhu Sherpa Memorial Hospital, at:
musamasala.com
đ·Photo: The boot containing a sock bearing Irvine's name and the remains of a foot. (Image credit: Jimmy Chin)
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For more information about Thom Dharma Pollard:
eyesopenproductions.com
