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He was 22 years old when
Michael Matthews disappeared on Everest.
He had become the
youngest climber to summit the top of the world
, where he stayed for around 20 minutes before he was out of sight three hours into the descent.
That May 13, 1999 he disappeared.
It was a tragedy that deeply marked the Matthews, a
wealthy British family
related to the princes of Wales, because today Michael would be the brother-in-law of Pippa Middleton (38).
Kate's sister is married to James (47), the eldest of the three brothers, a millionaire who is dedicated to finance.
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23 years after that tragedy, the youngest of the family, Spencer (34), has decided to travel to the same mountain to try to find his body and take it to England.
Spencer, star of the reality show
Made in Chelsea
, which chronicles the ups and downs of posh Londoners, spent
several months in therapy
before embarking on the
"emotional journey" to Everest
and following in the "exact footsteps" his brother took in 1999.
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A brother who died on Everest, another actor... Who is the family of Pippa Middleton's husband
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A brother who died on Everest, another actor... Who is the family of Pippa Middleton's husband
The journey to find his brother's body is included in a
Disney+ documentary
that has had the support of his parents and his brother James.
It will premiere in February 2023. On journalist Holly Rubenstein's
The Travel Diaries
podcast , Spencer confessed that it bothers her that Michael's body is up there, in plain sight, since around
600 people reach the Everest summit every year.
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"It's always bothered me that he could be lying there, like some kind of tourist attraction, but also alone, away from us. He died there and probably his last thought was that he would never see his family again.
We've never seen his body
. and I decided to find him to bring him home," he says.
His father, the millionaire David Matthews, initiated a legal process against the company that organized Michael's trip and the expedition guides since he considered that
they acted negligently
and were the cause of his son's death.
The case was dismissed because the judge ruled that there was no evidence of negligence.
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Since then, the family has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for the
Michael Matthews Foundation
set up to support educational projects in Africa and Asia.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
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