A book by Julie Huffman-Klinkowitz,"THE ENCHANTED QUEST of DANA and GINGER LAMB" debunked most of the movie, & the book "QUEST FOR THE LOST CITY". One of the major obstacles they over came was a multi day trip thru a cave in the Chiapas-Guatamala area. I used to be a very experienced cave explorer. What they did simply can't be done. Furthur, this supposed cave was in area of Central America famous for caves. A cave such as they claim to have been through in the 1940s would be known to present day cavers. It isn't. They use the same device, lost in a cave, in a previous book "ENCHANTED VAGABONDS" but what they claim in there is much more unlikely. In this book they're lost in a cave with no lights. They find their way out after wandering around for several hours. Talk to any experienced caver in the National Speleological Society and they confirm the extreme unlikelihood of being able to do this.
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Forget the "Indiana Jones" films - this is the real deal.
gj_davidson11 April 2004
`Quest for the Lost City' (1954) is a follow up feature documentary of the book of the same title, and is a moving testament to the courage and adventurous spirit of the husband and wife writing/exploring/film-making team of Dana and Ginger Lamb. Throw away your `Indiana Jones' DVDs, these two are the real deal.
Traveling by foot, horseback, dugout canoe, Model-T Ford, jeep, and airplane the Lambs traveled down the western edge of Mexico, crossing the Sonora Desert into the jungles of Chiapas. Ten years after they began their quest, years beset with hardships, frustration, and danger, they finally found their lost city. Along the way, they met a band of friendly bandits, an army of ants, a hermit, and a lost tribe of the Mayans. The Lambs' claim of finding a lost Mayan city deep in the Mexican jungle was discounted by well-known Mayan experts in their time, but today evidence by less biased experts supports the claim that the lost city they found and named `Laxtunich' really exists and lies undiscovered deep in the jungle waiting to be found. `Quest for the Lost City' is nothing less than one of the greatest adventure stories ever captured on film.
Traveling by foot, horseback, dugout canoe, Model-T Ford, jeep, and airplane the Lambs traveled down the western edge of Mexico, crossing the Sonora Desert into the jungles of Chiapas. Ten years after they began their quest, years beset with hardships, frustration, and danger, they finally found their lost city. Along the way, they met a band of friendly bandits, an army of ants, a hermit, and a lost tribe of the Mayans. The Lambs' claim of finding a lost Mayan city deep in the Mexican jungle was discounted by well-known Mayan experts in their time, but today evidence by less biased experts supports the claim that the lost city they found and named `Laxtunich' really exists and lies undiscovered deep in the jungle waiting to be found. `Quest for the Lost City' is nothing less than one of the greatest adventure stories ever captured on film.
nonsense
cycleguy14 May 2005
The film is based on the book by the Lambs, which archaeologist Frans Blom completely panned. I read the book twice to get some idea of where this "Lost City" could be located, but gave up. Carlos Frey traveled with them for a while, but left them, claiming that they were "phoneys".
Because the Lambs would never admit that they had somehow found a relatively minor site, the unique stela that they really did find has probably gone into a private collection somewhere. Their book includes what is a photo of Temple 33 at Yaxchilán, which suggests that it is of a location at their "lost city".
Even after Ginger Lamb had died, Dana maintained the fiction.
Because the Lambs would never admit that they had somehow found a relatively minor site, the unique stela that they really did find has probably gone into a private collection somewhere. Their book includes what is a photo of Temple 33 at Yaxchilán, which suggests that it is of a location at their "lost city".
Even after Ginger Lamb had died, Dana maintained the fiction.
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