| The Man Who Skied Down Everest | |
| Director: | F.R. Crawley Bruce Nyznik |
| Producer: | F. R. Crawley James Hager Dale Hartleben |
| Narrator: | Douglas Rain |
| Starring: | Yuichiro Miura |
| Music: | Larry Crosley Nexus |
| Cinematography: | Mitsuji Kanau |
| Editing: | Bob Cooper Millie Moore |
| Studio: | Crawley Films Ishihara International Productions |
| Distributor: | Specialty Films (US) |
| Runtime: | 84 minutes |
| Country: | Canada Japan United States |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | C$410,000 |
The Man Who Skied Down Everest is a Canadian documentary about Yuichiro Miura, a Japanese alpinist who skied down Mount Everest in 1970.[1] The film was produced by Crawley Films' "Budge" Crawley and directed by Crawley and Bruce Nyznik.
Miura skied 2,000 m (6,600 ft) in two minutes and 20 seconds and fell 400 m (1,320 ft) down the steep Lhotse face from the Yellow Band just below the South Col. He used a large parachute to slow his descent. He came to a full stop just 76 m (250 ft) from the edge of a bergschrund, a large, deep crevasse where the flow ice shears away from stable ice on the rock face and begins to move downwards as a glacier.
The ski descent was the objective of The Japanese Everest Skiing Expedition 1970. Six Sherpa porters were killed in a single accident by a collapse of a section of the Khumbu Glacier along the main route to the base of the mountain, as well as a Japanese member who died of a heart attack.
Crawley Films won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for this picture.[2] The Academy Film Archive preserved The Man Who Skied Down Everest in 2010.[3]