Skiing Everest - the classic way.
Staying on the Everest theme, this movie is a classic if you have not seen it before. There is actually an entire move on this guy skiing down the face of Everest, "The Man Who Skied Down Everest" is a documentary about Yuichiro Miura, a Japanese alpinist who skied down Mt. Everest in 1970. The film was produced by Canadian film maker Budge Crawley. Miura skied 6,600 feet (2000 m) in 2 minutes and 20 seconds and fell 1320 feet 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 250 ft. from the edge of the crevasse.
Great wipe-out - can you say self arrest?
