The Man Who Skied Down Everest
| The Man Who Skied Down Everest | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Bruce Nyznik Lawrence Schiller |
| Produced by | F. R. Crawley James Hager Dale Hartleben |
| Starring | Yuichiro Miura |
| Narrated by | Douglas Rain |
| Cinematography | Mitsuji Kanau |
| Edited by | Bob Cooper Millie Moore |
| Music by | Larry Crosley Nexus |
Production companies | Crawley Films |
| Distributed by | Specialty Films (US) |
Release date |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Countries | Canada Japan United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | C$410,000 |
The Man Who Skied Down Everest is a documentary about Yuichiro Miura, a Japanese alpinist who skied down Mount Everest in 1970. The film was produced by Canadian film maker F. R. "Budge" Crawley. Miura skied 2,000 m (6,600 ft) in two minutes and 20 seconds and fell 400 m (1,320 ft) 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 76 m (250 ft) from the edge of a bergschrund, a large, deep crevasse where the ice shears away from the stagnant ice on the rock face and begins to move downwards as a glacier.
The ski descent was the objective of The Japanese Everest Skiing Expedition 1970. Seven Sherpa members were killed during the expedition, as well as a Japanese member who died of a heart attack. At the same time, another independent Japanese expedition (called The Japanese Mount Everest Expedition 1970) undertook a combined ascent of (a) the normal route, including Naomi Uemura who made the summit, and (b) the first attempt at the South-West Face, the tall black face on the movie poster with the Y-shaped snowy gully. Two members of this second expedition died.[1]
Crawley won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for this picture.[2] The Academy Film Archive preserved The Man Who Skied Down Everest in 2010.[3]
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References[]
- ^ Ohtsuka, Hiromi (1971). "The Japanese Mount Everest Expedition, 1969-1970". The Himalayan Journal. 31. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
- ^ "The 48th Academy Awards (1976) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
- ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
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