The Man Who Skied Down Everest

1975
G
1h 26m

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7.1/10

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Yûichirô Miura in The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975)

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This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effort to ski down the world's tallest mountain.This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effort to ski down the world's tallest mountain.This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effort to ski down the world's tallest mountain.

Director
- Bruce Nyznik
Writers
- Yûichirô Miura
- Judith Crawley
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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

809

YOUR RATING

Director
- Bruce Nyznik
Writers
- Yûichirô Miura
- Judith Crawley
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Won 1 Oscar
- 1 win total

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Trivia
Narrated by Douglas Rain, the voice of HAL-9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

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Narrator: The first barrier in the ascent of Everest is a huge ice fall. It looks like the tongue of some gigantic demon. More lives have been lost here than on Everest itself. It rises 1600 feet--a world of dangerous, fragile beauty; a cascade of massive blocks of ice moving imperceptibly from the glacier above, pushed by the weight of centuries of the snows of Everest. Without warning it can shift and break into an avalanche of millions of tons of ice. On the other side of this barrier lies the most challenging ski run in the world.

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Edited from Eberesuto dai kakko (1970)

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8/10

quite a journey

This follows Japanese adventurer Yuichiro Miura as he attempts to ski down Mount Everest. That's it. That's all there is and it's great. This has an Englishman narrating his diary entries. It's a neverending train of thought. He is part of a large group of Japanese scientists, fellow travelers, and local porters.

Real life Everest adventures are usually compelling although Miura's destination isn't all the way to the iconic top. That part is rather unusual. The visuals are amazing and I love the 70's aesthetics. He does need a 1st POV camera shoot going downhill. The cameras of that time may be too heavy for him to carry.

This one has the reality of the people. Miura makes himself very personable. There are real deaths and real bodies. This gets real real fast. I feel like I went on a journey with him and that is one of the highest praise for a documentary.