OHMYGOSSIP — Spencer Matthews has heard his late brother Michael Matthews’ voice for the first time since 1999.
The ex ‘Made in Chelsea’ star – who was 10 years old when his big brother went missing during his attempt to climb Mount Everest 24 years ago aged 22 – got to see some unearthed footage in his new Disney+ documentary, ‘Finding Michael’, given to him by his sibling’s climbing partner, Dave Rodney.
In the film, the 34-year-old star 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.
“We weren’t the kind of family that made home videos and when I said to mum and dad, when we agreed to make this documentary, I said I need all footage of Mike and they said ‘We don’t have any’.
“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.”
Dave labelled Spencer’s big brother as the “best mate I could ever have hoped for on the mountain”, as he reflected on the day Michael disappeared.
He continued: “Our dream was to be together on summit day. Sadly, although we climbed every single day of the expedition, together on summit day, we were not.
“I was to be with two other people and he was to be with his guide.
“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.
“But I’m so pleased that Spencer and Bear and the crew have filmed something that is, I think, going to be not only legendary, it’ll touch absolutely everyone who’s experienced grief and loss and help them through that process.”
Earlier this week, Spencer – who has son Thedore, four, daughter Gigi, two, and son Otto, 11 months, with his wife Vogue Williams, 37 – spoke about the “quite cathartic” experience of making the programme, which includes the first time his mother Jane and sister Nina have talked publicly about their loss.
Spencer said: “We scrapped together any information we had. Some of the footage of Michael on the mountain I’d never seen before.
“It was the first time I’d seen him on camera, because as a kid we didn’t do home movies or anything.
“Retracing his steps and understanding his final days a bit better was quite cathartic for me…”

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