The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975) on Netflix
G19751h 26mDocumentary
Yuichiro Miura plans to ski down Mount Everest, starting high on the mountain near the summit and descending a steep glacier. His expedition must first climb Everest to get him there.
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A Japanese alpinist, Yuichiro Miura, wants to descend Mount Everest on skis at high speed. His plan calls for a drop of roughly 8,000 feet down an ice face, starting at about 26,000 feet close to the top of the mountain, and a large parachute to slow him. Getting to that starting point means climbing the mountain, so the Japanese Everest Skiing Expedition 1970 carries its supplies up the route through Nepal toward the base and then higher, with Sherpa porters among the party. The film records the preparation for the attempt and the time the expedition spends on the mountain, and its narrator reads aloud from the diary Miura keeps.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975)
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Miura skied 2,000 m in two minutes and 20 seconds and fell 400 m down the steep Lhotse face from the Yellow Band just below the South Col. He used a large parachute to slow his descent and came to a full stop just 76 m from the edge of a bergschrund, a large, deep crevasse.- Six Sherpa porters were killed in a single accident when a section of the Khumbu Glacier collapsed along the main route to the base of the mountain, and a Japanese member of the expedition died of a heart attack.
