Spencer Matthews

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 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.”

Spencer Matthews said he watched footage of his older brother Michael for the first time since he disappeared on Mount Everest in 1999 while making ...

Please review their details and accept them to load the content. "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." Matthews said: "Dave in particular brought to the table footage from the 1999 expedition of Mike and Dave climbing and Mike’s attitude to the mountain and I actually had never, prior to flying to Canada to meet Dave, had never seen Mike on camera ever.

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.