Spencer Matthews

Disney+. In 1999, 22-year-old Michael Matthews became the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest. But three hours after he reached the summit, ...

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Spencer Matthews has opened up about having never seen footage of his brother until filming the DisneyPlus documentary Finding Michael.

I was called up to the room and there was clearly something wrong. My parents told me Mike was lost on the mountain and wasn’t coming back. The TV personality and podcaster said: ‘I was ten at the time, we were in St. To me, it just couldn’t be true.’ ‘I didn’t understand death fully then, it didn’t register with me. [ ex-Made In Chelsea](https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/25/made-in-chelsea-spencer-matthews-regrets-louise-thompson-break-up-18165324/) star Spencer disappeared ‘somewhere between the summit and the balcony’ of the mountain.

Michael became the youngest Briton to summit Mount Everest in 1999. However, just three hours after the journey he disappeared and his body was never found.

For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to [The Radio Times Podcast](https://www.radiotimes.com/audio/podcasts/). [Spencer Matthews didn't consider documentary's “detrimental effect” on family](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/documentaries/spencer-matthews-finding-michael-exclusive-newsupdate/) [When is the Finding Michael release date? But it helps me to move through some painful emotions that I've grown up with." "The film just to be clear isn't about that. "I always grew up with the understanding that Mike's 1999 expedition was badly organised and his death could have potentially been avoided. Spencer Matthews documentary latest](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/documentaries/finding-michael-spencer-matthews-disney-plus-release-date/) I experienced exactly what he experienced, albeit with different people and we enjoyed ourselves on the way to Everest." Spencer was just 10-years-old when Mike passed away at the age of 22. "It was an experience that I'll always remember fondly. [Finding Michael](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/documentaries/finding-michael-spencer-matthews-disney-plus-release-date/). [terms and conditions](https://www.immediate.co.uk/terms-and-conditions/) and [privacy policy](https://policies.immediate.co.uk/privacy/). [learn more](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/commercial-links-on-radiotimes-com/))

Made in Chelsea's Spencer Matthews searches for the body of his brother, Michael, who died descending Everest in 1999.

The rest of us are content to do our exploring on the sofa – because it’s here. That the expedition finally opts for a more generous form of redemption feels as much the product of an editorial decision as a moral choice. “If we have to leave him on the mountain,” says Matthews, “it’s just going to be like a total travesty.” Hmm. One was Michael Matthews, 22, who insouciantly agreed to have a crack at the prompting of a climbing friend who brandished a brochure. Great credit is due to the vast invisible sound and camera crew who made all this possible, plus the eight Sherpas who are in charge on the mountain. As a drone scours the lofty flanks in search of the dead, plenty of other human remains are revealed.

After finding it 'unbearable' knowing that his brother's body was still on Mount Everest 23 years after his disappearance, Spencer Matthews has decided to ...

I know now that you can fly helicopters into Camp 2. It never crushed me in the way it affected my parents and my brother. "We would read that you could recover bodies from Everest. I thought it was impossible. I remember thinking it was really unfair. Appearing on The One Show ahead of the release of his much-talked-about documentary, Spencer admitted that he has never been able to get the stark image of his brother on Mount Everest out of his mind.

TOP PICK: FINDING MICHAEL Disney+ Spencer Matthews, still best-known to most people for Made in Chelsea and, at least in Ireland, for being married to Vogue ...

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The former Made In Chelsea star, 34, fought back tears as he discussed his attempts to recover his late brother's body on Mount Everest on The One Show on ...

'Part of the film is that we retrace the exact steps that Mike and his friends took. All I see is a young man in the process of losing his life' We stay in the same places and do the same path as he did. All I see is a young man in the process of losing his life.' We have to look all over the mountain.' It's above the clouds. We have one of the greatest, Nims Purja. It's the closest I've felt to Mike since his death.' It's the closest I've felt to Mike' I was unable to stop thinking about it. Spencer said: 'When Michael went missing, by the time some people realised he was missing it was too late. It's the first time really that I thought even a body recovery was possible.

The reality TV star opens up about his new Disney+ documentary, in which he travels to Nepal to recover the body of his brother who disappeared while descending ...

"Yeah, one thing I hadn't considered at all was if we were unsuccessful, that it might have a kind of detrimental effect to some people in my family. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to [The Radio Times Podcast](https://www.radiotimes.com/audio/podcasts/). That gave us comfort to proceed and Disney were kind enough to want to document the journey." The team were incredible and would go from base camp directly to camp fall in a single push. Speaking of Bear and Nims, he adds: "From then on, my mind just just raced with the possibility of doing this ourselves. He continues: "I had never realised that body recovery on Everest was even possible prior to receiving that photo. "I had conversations with my family," he explains. The highest mountain in the world at 8,849 metres high, Mount Everest attracts hundreds of climbers every year, and has a 14.1 per cent fatality rate. However, on the way down from the summit he disappeared and was presumed dead. I like the fact that people who watch it seem, to me at least, to feel an emotional connection towards it. And they are moved by it in some way," he tells us. At the time, a 22-year-old Michael had become the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest.

This incredibly moving documentary follows the reality TV star as he retraces his brother's last steps on Mount Everest – and makes many shocking ...

We are reminded of the sheer scale of the loss of life, and to see it so plainly is shocking. The fact that this is exceptional is never more clear than later on in the film, when the notion that there might be only one body to find up there is disabused. Spencer goes to meet some of his brother’s old climbing friends, to find out what he can about how to identify Michael, and how best to brief the experts who are willing to go into the death zone and look for him. It brings Michael to life by piecing together who he was, through friends and family members remembering him, and through photographs and video, including one haunting piece of film from his last night alive. In Finding Michael his younger brother, the reality TV star Spencer Matthews, embarks on a very personal mission to locate the body of his brother and bring him home to rest, more than 20 years later. In 2017, the Matthews family received a photograph of a body on Everest that looked as if it might be wearing the same colour summit suit that Michael was wearing when he went missing.

Made in Chelsea star Spencer Matthews has discussed new documentary Finding Michael, which chronicles his emotional journey up Mount Everest.

Nobody survives the night, really." "It continued to tick away in my head that, what if it is him? There have only been a few cases of successful body recoveries," he said. "And in fact it did look like, you know... "Michael went missing, so by the time some people realised that he was missing, it was too late. [Made in Chelsea's Spencer Matthews "can't stand" being linked to the show](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a43140377/made-in-chelsea-spencer-matthews-cant-stand-link/)

Spencer Matthews has praised wife Vogue Williams for her unwavering support after he travelled to Everest days after she gave birth.

It makes me happy to see him instead of feeling angry about it.’ [Spencer Matthews had never seen late brother on video until Finding Michael documentary](https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/02/spencer-matthews-hadnt-seen-video-of-his-brother-until-finding-michael-18378354/?ico=more_text_links) [Spencer Matthews ‘regrets’ infamous Made in Chelsea break-up scene with Louise Thompson: ‘I feel embarrassed about it’](https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/25/made-in-chelsea-spencer-matthews-regrets-louise-thompson-break-up-18165324/?ico=more_text_links) [This Morning](https://metro.co.uk/tag/this-morning/) on Friday. [Metro.co.uk](https://metro.co.uk) entertainment team by emailing us [email protected], calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our [Submit Stuff](https://metro.co.uk/submit-stuff/) page – we’d love to hear from you. [Spencer Matthews](https://metro.co.uk/tag/spencer-matthews/) has praised wife [Vogue Williams ](https://metro.co.uk/tag/vogue-williams/)for her unwavering support after he travelled to Everest to [recover his brother’s body ](https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/27/spencer-matthews-ill-never-forgive-the-mistakes-behind-brothers-death-18350349/)just days after she [gave birth](https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/02/spencer-matthews-and-vogue-williams-reveal-adorable-newborn-sons-name-16570511/). [ died in 1999](https://metro.co.uk/2022/11/15/spencer-matthews-scared-brothers-body-a-tourist-attraction-17761854/). [documentary series Finding Michael](https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/27/finding-michael-review-spencer-matthews-extraordinary-film-is-unmissable-18348189/), Spencer has shared more about how difficult it was to leave his family behind to begin with. He added: ‘For my mum she [Vogue] also completely understood that taking this on was so important to us and she didn’t even come close to standing in the way.’ ‘I had to go shortly after Otto was born which made the whole thing more difficult,’ he explained while appearing on ‘We had agreed to make sure it was all bombproof for 2022 obviously not knowing Vogue would be pregnant on that date in the future, so there was a pretty serious clash in conflicts of timings,’ he said. After the expedition had to be pushed back from its initial 2021 date, Spencer said 2022 had been locked in at the time to do it, but as that date approached, it was also becoming closer and closer to Vogue’s due date.

Spencer is retracing the steps of his brother who disappeared on Mount Everest in 1999 in the new documentary Finding Michael.

I was to be with two other people and he was to be with his guide. Obviously then when the disaster happened and Michael never came home it was a devastating blow for everyone. “Twenty years on to watch Spencer now as a man, as a father, as a husband wanting to try and recover his body and tell Michael’s story was a privilege to be a small part of. Dave said that Michael was the “best mate I could ever have hoped for on the mountain”, and he is “honoured and humbled” to be a part of the documentary. “He was going to be a year younger than me and I was all fired up and came for a chat and I was full of ‘You gotta go for it, you’re gonna smash it’. “Fortunately, Dave had this incredible film that I hadn’t seen so I saw it in Canada for the first time and it’s the first time I’d heard Michael speak since he was alive, since I was 10.”

In a new documentary on Disney+, Spencer Matthews joins an expert team to search for his brother who went missing while climbing Mount Everest in 1999.

During the adverse weather, Micheal was separated from the pack and found himself in the 'Death Zone' – a notorious area more than 8,000 metres above sea level. He was the youngest Brit to reach its peak, but on the way down, Micheal and his team were hit with heavy snow and strong gales. Micheal Matthews was the brother of Made in Chelsea star Spencer Matthews. He also went on to say: “It has been a difficult journey to document, both physically and emotionally but I’m hoping that it will give my brave brother the legacy that he deserves.” I found myself valuing my sobriety and the path that I’m now on,” he continued. Spencer was just 10-years-old when his brother went missing, and unsurprisingly has always struggled to accept that Michael will never come back.

And on Friday, Spencer Matthews, 34, praised his wife Vogue Williams, 37 - with whom he shares son Thedore, four, daughter Gigi, two, and son Otto, 11 months - ...

'Part of the film is that we retrace the exact steps that Mike and his friends took. We stay in the same places and do the same path as he did. All I see is a young man in the process of losing his life.' We have to look all over the mountain.' It's the closest I've felt to Mike since his death.' Spencer said: 'When Michael went missing, by the time some people realised he was missing it was too late. It's the first time really that I thought even a body recovery was possible. The Made In Chelsea alum spoke fondly of his late brother, recalling: 'I think we shared a very loving relationship, i understand he was the sibling really pushing my parents to have another child. I only found out the next day that he had not come down and 40 below had become 50 below and breezes became hurricane winds. Lead by Nirmal 'Nims' Purja, Spencer said of the expedition: 'We were aware of the risks attached to that. He continued: 'Our dream was to be together on summit day. 'He had had great success with a number of other mountains and Everest was just next on his list.

The emotional stakes are high in this nerve-wracking film. Not just because of Michael's death, but because of the dangers of climbing Everest.

Watching Spencer visit the same villages, bathe in the same natural pools and be blessed in the same temples is incredibly poignant. When Spencer delivers the body of a sherpa to a local family, it is not a happy reunion. The only tears come from Spencer’s wife Vogue Williams, who gave birth just eight days before her husband was due to leave for Nepal, and Dave Rodney, a Canadian who was on the same expedition as Michael in 1999. His whole family, he explains, are stoic to a fault, each of them very pragmatic about both Michael’s death and his potential return home. “I’m going to find that difficult,” he retorts, and for a moment you worry Spencer is going to insist on travelling further up the mountain and risking the same fate as his brother. In 1999, 22-year-old Michael Matthews became the youngest ever Briton to reach the peak of Mount Everest.