Smartwool Women Skiing Light 10 227
Smartwool Women Skiing Light 10 227
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The Man Who Skied Down Everest This incredible, award-winning film 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 face an icefall that claims 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 continue on to the South Col, only 350 meters from the summit, where Miura put his life in the hands of the gods in his descent. Using oxygen and 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, allowing his fall to end 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.
Customer Review: An incredible, scenic, courages adventure through a part of the world and culture that has already gone. Beautiful.
It is a fantastic work. The sherpas, the small towns they pass through, the culture that was alive back in the 1960s still, all that is beautifully filmed. All that is gone, changed forever now. The mountain, the challange, the courage, all can be felt in this film. I highly recommend it to everyone, but most especially to those who can remember supreme adventuring before goretex, gps /cell phones and high tech equipment. It’s a remarkable film on many levels.
Customer Review: The Real Everest
This guy is nuts and the video is good. If you want to see what people really had to go thru to climb Everest without all the fluff added, see this video. Not to mention you get to see this guy attempt this insane feat.
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