Le skieur de l'Everest

Original title: The Man Who Skied Down Everest

1975
G
1h 25m

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Yûichirô Miura in Le skieur de l'Everest (1975)

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
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7.2/10

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

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Won 1 Oscar
- 1 win total

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Narrated by Douglas Rain, the voice of HAL-9000 in 2001 : L'Odyssée de l'espace (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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Well, I Liked It

I saw this movie many years ago on TV, and thoroughly enjoyed it. As a previous reviewer said, the title is somewhat misleading; I usually refer to it as "The Man Who Fell Down Everest"!

What struck me about this film is that the expedition is so *Japanese*. For example, all the equipment is stencilled "JESE" for "Japanese Everest Ski Expedition". They carry collapsible bridges for crossing crevasses. And they lugged old-style videotape equipment up the mountain so the skier could record and critique his practice runs; there is a funny scene of the Sherpas watching _Bonanza_ tapes dubbed into Japanese.

All in all, I found it fascinating. And it won the Oscar for best documentary that year.