What Scottish nobleman was the subject of a 1934 British short documentary and was the first man to fly over Mount Everest?
Wings Over Everest Wings over Everest is a 1934 British short documentary film directed by Geoffrey Barkas and Ivor Montagu. It won an Academy Award in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Novelty). It described the 1933 Houston-Westland expedition, in which Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, otherwise known as Lord Clydesdale, piloted a single-engined biplane on 3 April 1933, just clearing Everest's southern peak by a few feet, having been caught in a powerful downdraught. The film used mixture of real footage of Everest from the record-breaking flight and theatrically produced scenes using the actual people rather than actors.
Mount Conrad Mount Conrad ( ) is a peak that rises to about 600 m , 6 nmi south of Cape Kinsey, in the central Goodman Hills in the Wilson Hills. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–63, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for American aviation figure Max Conrad, who, in January 1970, became the first person to fly an aircraft solo to the South Pole.