The Man Who Skied Down Everest is a documentary about Yuichiro Miura, a Japanese alpinist who skied down Mt. Everest in 1970. He 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. Yuichiro Miura (三浦雄一郎, born October 12, 1932) is a Japanese alpinist who is currently the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. ... This article is about the Alpine mountain. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Lhotse is the fourth highest mountain on Earth and is connected to Mount Everest via the South Col. ... The South Col usually refers to the southern col between Mount Everest and Lhotse, the first and fourth highest mountains in the world. ...
Eight died during the expedition's ascent.
The South Col is a large, level saddle between Everest and Lhotse at 26,000 feet (7928 m), often used as the highest base camp on the southern route, 3,000 feet below the summit. The southern route is the one Jon Krakauer took in May of 1996, documented in the book "Into Thin Air". The South Col is the place where Beck Weathers wandered frozen and left for dead. At the base of the Lhotse face is the Khumbu Glacier. Its upper end is constantly pulling away from the Lhotse face leaving a bergschrund, a crevasse formed by a glacier's falling away from the supporting rock. Jon Krakauer Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954), is an American non-fiction author and mountaineer, well-known for outdoor and mountain-climbing writing. ... Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. ... Beck Weathers is an American pathologist from Texas. ... The Khumbu Glacier is located in the Khumbu region of northeastern Nepal and flows down from the Khumbu Icefall on the southern slopes of Mount Everest. ... Lhotse is the fourth highest mountain on Earth and is connected to Mount Everest via the South Col. ... Bergschrund at the Schnapfenspitze, Austria A Bergschrund (also called rimaye) is a crevasse positioned at the rear of a corrie next to the steep back wall. ... Measuring snowpack in a crevasse on the Easton Glacier, North Cascades, USA A crevasse is a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field. ...
Many have died by falling down this precipitous wall.
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