Shot ride from Mount Everest

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Movie
German title Shot ride from Mount Everest
Original title The Man Who Skied Down Everest
Country of production Japan , Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1975
length 86 minutes
Rod
Director Bruce Nyznik ,
Lawrence Schiller
script Judith Crawley
production FR Crawley ,
James Hager ,
Dale Hartleben
music Larry Crosley ,
Robert Aitken ,
Nexus
camera Mitsuji Kanau
cut Bob Cooper,
Millie Moore
occupation

Schußfahrt vom Mount Everest (Original title: The Man Who Skied Down Everest ) is a Canadian-Japanese documentary by Bruce Nyznik and Lawrence Schiller about the mountaineer Yūichirō Miura , who went down Mount Everest on skis in 1970 . The film was produced by Canadian filmmaker Budge Crawley and won an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1976 . The film premiered on September 19, 1975 in Canada. The first broadcast on German television was on October 24, 1987 on ZDF .

background

It took Miura 2 minutes and 20 seconds to complete the 2,000 meters and fell 1,320 feet (about 402 m) from the steep face of the Lhotse along the yellow route just below the South Col. He used a large parachute to slow his fall and came to a halt 250 feet (76 m) from a crevasse.

Ski jumping was the goal of the Japanese Everest Skiing Expedition in 1970 . Six members of the expedition died. At the same time, another Japanese expedition called The Japanese Mount Everest Expedition 1970 attempted the climb. This took the way partly on the normal route and then made the first attempt to ascend over the southwest flank. Two members of the second expedition also died.

The budget for the film was approximately $ 410,000 Canadian.

There is also a documentary about Miura about his departure from Mount Fuji .

reception

The film-dienst wrote that the "illustrated with unique landscapes" film dealt with the "human addiction for top performance and self-affirmation in the face of the challenges of nature". Hal Erickson wrote that the film shines with “breathtaking visuals”, but that the “silly voice [of the narrator] in the English original” is only “not very Oscar-worthy”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awards. Internet Movie Database , accessed February 12, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed February 12, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b shot drive from Mount Everest. film service , accessed February 12, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Note. It should be noted that there is less than half the air pressure here as at sea level and the braking effect of the air resistance is correspondingly lower.
  5. ↑ Hiromi Ohtsuka: The Japanese Mount Everest Expedition, 1969-1970 . In: The Himalayan Journal . 31, 1971. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  6. ↑ Business. Internet Movie Database , accessed February 12, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Hal Erickson : The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1976). Rotten Tomatoes , accessed on February 12, 2015 (English): “[…] concludes with breathtaking footage of his 1970 climbing-and-descending expedition. [...] Even so, the sappy voice over narration in the English-language version is hardly Oscar caliber. "