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The Man Who Skied Down Everest
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The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1976)
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There can be no challenge without the risk of failure.
The Man Who Skied Down Everest was Japanese skier Yuichiro Miura. Given the number of people who have died trying to simply climb up Mount Everest, Miura's accomplishment is all the more astonishing. This 86-minute Canadian-Japanese documentary details Miura's lifelong obsession in achieving his goal, and concludes with breathtaking footage of his 1970 climbing-and-descending expedition. The Man Who Skied Down Everest won the "best documentary" Academy Award for 1975. Even so, the sappy voice over narration in the English-language version is hardly Oscar calibre.
The Man Who Skied Down Everest is a documentary about Yuichiro Miura, a Japanese alpinist who skied down Mt. Everest in 1970. The film was produced by Canadian film maker Budge Crawley. Miura skied 6,600 feet (2000 m) in 2 minutes and 20 seconds and fell 1320 feet down the steep Lhotse face from the Yellow Band just below the South Col. He used a large parachute to slow his descent. He came to a full stop just 250 ft. from the edge of the crevasse.
The 1970 Japanese Everest Expedition was a combined ascent of (a) the normal route (including Naomi Uemura who made the summit), (b) the first attempt at the South-West Face (this is the tall black face on the movie post with the Y-shaped snowy gully), and (c) this ski descent. The film does not make this clear. Eight died during the expedition's ascent.
Crawley won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for this picture.[1]
Miura also has a documentary skiing down Mount Fuji.
Release Date: May 27, 1976
The Man Who Skied Down Everest was Japanese skier Yuichiro Miura. Given the number of people who have died trying to simply climb up Mount Everest, Miura's accomplishment is all the more astonishing. This 86-minute Canadian-Japanese documentary details Miura's lifelong obsession in achieving his goal, and concludes with breathtaking footage of his 1970 climbing-and-descending expedition. The Man Who Skied Down Everest won the "best documentary" Academy Award for 1975. Even so, the sappy voice over narration in the English-language version is hardly Oscar calibre.
The Man Who Skied Down Everest is a documentary about Yuichiro Miura, a Japanese alpinist who skied down Mt. Everest in 1970. The film was produced by Canadian film maker Budge Crawley. Miura skied 6,600 feet (2000 m) in 2 minutes and 20 seconds and fell 1320 feet down the steep Lhotse face from the Yellow Band just below the South Col. He used a large parachute to slow his descent. He came to a full stop just 250 ft. from the edge of the crevasse.
The 1970 Japanese Everest Expedition was a combined ascent of (a) the normal route (including Naomi Uemura who made the summit), (b) the first attempt at the South-West Face (this is the tall black face on the movie post with the Y-shaped snowy gully), and (c) this ski descent. The film does not make this clear. Eight died during the expedition's ascent.
Crawley won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for this picture.[1]
Miura also has a documentary skiing down Mount Fuji.
Release Date: May 27, 1976
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