The Man Who Skied Down Everest 1975 123movies

Watch: The Man Who Skied Down Everest 1975 123movies, Full Movie Online – A Japanese skier ultimately dreamed of literally skiing Mt. Everest. He planned to ski some 8,000 feet down an icy glacier at a 40 to 45 degree angle, from the 26,000 foot level near the summit. This documentary chronicles this incredible feat and the tremendous task of climbing Everest itself. The narrator reads from the diary that the skier personally kept..
Plot: This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura’s 1970 effort to ski down the world’s tallest mountain.
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Crazy stunt, but was it worth it?
Reading the synopsis above does a pretty good job of explaining how crazy/ambitious of a stunt this was, but doesn’t really do justice to the price that was paid by so many who were hired to help get Mr. Miura up Mount Everest so he could put on a pair of skis and do one of the craziest things a person has ever attempted. This film really is a dichotomy between the grandeur of the stunt vs. the price paid for this entirely self-indulgent, off the wall crazy foray into one’s ego. The actual stunt itself is probably the most thrilling thing ever put on film and is incredibly exciting especially for a generation brought up with extreme sports, but only showing this scene betrays the intent of the film, which is to portray the unnecessary suffering of the poor Sherpa’s who lost their lives because they had no other option but to accept the job. This film is incredibly sad and exciting at the same time and is a perfect metaphor for the first world (Miura’s Japan) taking advantage of the third world (the ethnic Sherpa people of Nepal) for purely selfish means. For the classroom it checks several boxes because of the fact it is immensely exciting, borderline crazy, yet manages to illustrate how the inequality in economic power between nations can lead to pure exploitation, damaging the indigenous cultures so you can for instance, ski down Mount Everest!

a truly self-indulgent and self-aggrandizing waste of time
I saw this film when it came out. Let me see now–this guy who had earlier skied down Mount Fuji manages to accumulate the funding and hire personnel to document what sounds on the surface like a bold and daring act—to ski down the world’s highest peak. Well–AND HERE COMES THE SPOILER–what happens, see, after a large crew of people manage to help him get near the top–and a life is lost in the bargain–he gets on his skis, manages to make it down a very very short way, at which point his PARACHUTE OPENS…and that’s that. And instead of burning the footage to hide this amazingly anticlimactic ending to an embarrassing debacle, the guy goes ahead and releases it. SPOILER ENDS I do admire the amazing courage and effort it must have taken the film crew to get some of the stunning shots they got. ANOTHER SPOILER–Oh yes, one of the Sherpas is killed by falling into a crevasse. The narrator, who is quoting the “daredevil skier, casually remarks that, according to the Sherpa religion, since this man’s body cannot be recovered his soul will roam the world forever and never know rest. Is it worth it, the narrator muses. YES he answers–because it served the purpose of letting this clown “ski down Everest.” I can’t remember ever seeing a more meretricious piece of celluloid. This is one to miss at all costs.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 25 min (85 min) (Canada), 1 hr 26 min (86 min) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated G
Genre Documentary
Director Bruce Nyznik
Writer Yûichirô Miura, Judith Crawley
Actors Yûichirô Miura, Shintaro Ishihara, Taisuke Fujishima
Country Canada, Japan, United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 1 win total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process CinemaScope
Printed Film Format 35 mm