Two decades after his brother Michael died on Everest, former Made in Chelsea star, Spencer Mattews set out on a mission to bring his body home.
came with a conversation around potentially recovering his body,’ he says. ‘I had never even thought that that was a possibility. Growing up after his death, and all of my adult life until recently, I didn't realise that recovering bodies from Everest was possible.’
The thought that more lives could be put at risk in order to find Michael weighed on Spencer’s mind of course, but Nims reassured him he could keep his team safe. The expedition is the subject of the one-off documentary,, which tells the story of Michael’s disappearance and his family’s journey to recover his body 20 years on.
After Michael’s disappearance, there was talk that inadequate leadership and faulty oxygen bottles on his expedition could have been to blame for his death, but a private criminal prosecution brought by his father in 2006 failed to find the expedition leader or guides guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence.
‘I grew up thinking that Mike had been taken from us, as opposed to him having an accident. I think that makes the process difficult. I’ll never forgive the actions of those people but I've kind of come to terms with that more. And I'm easier around it having moved through this process. I now look at photos of Michael and I smile, whereas before I felt anger, I was carrying around a lot of a lot of anger towards certain people, throughout my teens and twenties.
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