The Man Who Skied Down Everest

1975
G
1h 26m

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7.2/10

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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.

Directors
- F.R. Crawley
- Bruce Nyznik
Writers
- Yûichirô Miura
- Judith Crawley
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

904

YOUR RATING

Directors
- F.R. Crawley
- Bruce Nyznik
Writers
- Yûichirô Miura
- Judith Crawley
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Won 1 Oscar
- 1 win total

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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.