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The Man Who Skied Down Everest

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The Man Who Skied Down Everest
Theatrical release poster
Directed byF.R. Crawley
Bruce Nyznik
Written byJudith Crawley
Produced byF. R. Crawley
James Hager
Dale Hartleben
StarringYuichiro Miura
Narrated byDouglas Rain
CinematographyMitsuji Kanau
Edited byBob Cooper
Millie Moore
Music byLarry Crosley
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Production
companies
Crawley Films
Ishihara International Productions
Distributed bySpecialty Films (US)
Release date
  • September 19, 1975 (1975-09-19)
Running time
84 minutes
CountriesCanada
Japan
United States
LanguageEnglish
BudgetC$410,000

The Man Who Skied Down Everest is a Canadian documentary about Yuichiro Miura, a Japanese alpinist who skied down Mount Everest in 1970.[1] The film was produced by Crawley Films' "Budge" Crawley and directed by Crawley and Bruce Nyznik.

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 flow ice shears away from stable 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. Six Sherpa porters were killed in a single accident by a collapse of a section of the Khumbu Glacier along the main route to the base of the mountain, as well as a Japanese member who died of a heart attack.

Crawley Films 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

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  1. ^ "The Man Who Skied Down Everest". cfe.tiff.net. Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  2. ^ "The 48th Academy Awards (1976) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  3. ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
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