First Balloon Flight over Everest - 1991

 

First Balloon Flight over Everest - 1991, filmed by highly acclaimed adventure film maker Leo Dickinson. Winner of "Silver Gentian" award at the Trento Mountain Film Festival.

Ballooning over Everest
In a field near the Nepalese hamlet of Gokyo, four men climb into two fragile wicker baskets and pour flame into their hot air balloons. Rising powerfully into the skies, their crafts follow a course towards the highest place on earth - Everest. For Leo Dickinson and Chris Dewhirst, the cameraman and pilot in one of the balloons, the flight will settle old scores after three previous attempts and several life threatening crashes. The expedition planning took some 10 years to come to fruition. And the expedition itself involved no less than 150 porters, 50 yaks, various meteorologists, intense arguments and many bemused locals. This extraordinary documentary follows Leo Dickinson's journey from Kathmandu in an old fashioned flying machine, which eventually crash lands in a remote corner of Tibet. You will see some of the most spectacular footage imaginable and the most astonishing mountain footage we are ever likely to see, as the balloon drifts over the highest point on earth.
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  Silver Gentian Award - Trento Mountain Film Festival

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Banff Film Festival - This extraordinary documentary follows Leo's journey from Kathmandu in an old fashioned flying machine, which eventually crash lands in a remote corner of Tibet. In between ….some of the most spectacular footage imaginable as the balloon drifts over the highest point on earth.

Sunday Telegraph - Some of the most astonishing mountain footage we are ever likely to see is included in this documentary account of a hot air balloon flight from Nepal over Everest to Tibet. Adventure cameraman Leo Dickinson's pictures are breath taking.

Hello Magazine - It is …..a marvelous chronicle of an airborne voyage over earth's highest peak by Leo Dickinson in a hot air balloon.

Timeout - Adventure cameraman Leo Dickinson mounts a balloon flight over Mount Everest. This involves 150 porters, 50 yaks, various meteorologists, intense arguments and bemused locals. As an insight into the chaos and complications that setting up an expedition incur this is brilliant. The articulacy of the balloons inhabitants also add to the excitement.

The Sun - Visually breath taking, hair raising film from cameraman Leo Dickinson of a journey over Everest in a hot air balloon. As well as the dramatic beauty of the landscape the documentary captures every hiss of tension.

Independent - Adventure series covers the sort of escapades that will have you swooning either with admiration or disbelief. Ballooning over Everest follows a cameraman Leo Dickinson on a trip that even Richard Branson has yet to attempt. Never mind the danger, feel the photography.

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Ballooning Over Everest

First Ever Balloon Flight over Everest, 1991.
$22.95 US / Canada
$29.95 Rest of world
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VHS video in NTSC released by Adventure Eye Inc April 2000
Color, digitally remastered. Run time approx. 52 minutes.
ISBN: 0970816944

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