This is going to be SICK: The Man Who Skied Down Everest

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This Academy Award winning film (Best Documentary, 1975) features adventurer, poet and world-champion skier Yuichiro Miura as he and his team face the most challenging climb in the world, Mt. Everest. The ascent is fraught with tragedy, the descent miraculous. During the climb, they faced an icefall that claimed the lives of six of their team, still considered the worst natural disaster accident in Himalayan history. With a 35mm Panavision film crew in tow, they continued on to the South Col, only 350 meters from the summit, where Miura put his life in the hands of the gods.

Breathing from an oxygen supply and using a parachute to slow his speed, Miura skied 7,000 feet over sheer ice and rocks. Unbalanced by the gusting winds, he hit a boulder and fell 1,320 feet, smashing into rocks and ice ridges. A patch of snow was all that saved him, ending his decent just moments away from the Bergshrund Crevasse. This final climax has been called the most exciting six minutes of film ever shot, as Miura plummets helplessly down Everest's unforgiving icy slopes toward certain death.

Possibly the first truly extreme skiing film ever produced, The Man Who Skied Down Everest is a portrait of an athlete and a world record-holder, a timeless story of adventure and courage and a thrilling account of one man's dream to accomplish the impossible. For this presentation, the film has been digitally re-mastered in HD and is presented in 5.1 digital surround sound.
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Now if only I could pull the recording off of my DVR for clips...alas I cannot:(
 
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Don't have it on the west coast discovery channel. It's running mythbusters marathon.
 
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http://www.k2news.com/everestnews3/miuradis13.htm


All members of Miura team have finally returned to C4 (7900m) at South Col. The following are further comment received

from South Col via Radil to BC. Yuichiro Miura: "Ever since I skied down the Everest 33 years ago, I promised to myself that I would one day stand at the summit of Mt. Everest. During these years, I have skied down the World's Seven Summits, and at the age of 70, I was finally able to stand on the summit of the world after training for 5 years, moreover was able to make the world record of being the oldest man to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. I learned that humans can achieve any dream as long as they continue to challenge and not give up. This time challenge is also very special for me and am very happy, as I was able to climb with my
second son Gota, Mr. Noriyuki Muraguchi the best climber and the best alpine photographer, and the best team of Sherpas."

Gota Miura "Although I am outrageously exhausted, I've never felt so fabulous and wonderful in my life."

 
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Originally posted by: bobdelt
Originally posted by: chambersc
So if was "sure death" did he surely die making the video?
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Shirley you cant be serious
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Yes, I'm serious. I was pointing the outlandish statement.














And don't call me Shirley.
 
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