Miura Keizo

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Miura Keizo

Miura Keizō ( Japanese 三浦 敬 三 ; born February 15, 1904 in Aomori , Aomori Prefecture ; † January 5, 2006 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese ski pioneer and ski instructor.

Life

Miura founded a ski dynasty. With 77 years he managed the Kilimanjaro on skis, 88-year-old he made a 100-km cross-country tour of the Alps and to his 99th birthday he is accompanied by four generations of his family, on skis, the Vallee Blanche in Mont Blanc -region gone. His son Yuichiro was the first to ski the southern slope of Mount Everest in the 1970s .

He died of multiple organ failure and left three sons, including the alpinist Yūichirō Miura , and a daughter.

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Miura is the family name, Keizō the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Miura, Keizo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 三浦 敬 三 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese ski pioneer and ski instructor
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Aomori
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 2006
Place of death Tokyo