Blu-ray, DVD Release: The Man Who Skied Down Everest

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Laurence
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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Dec. 13, 2016
Price: DVD $14.99, Blu-ray $19.99
Studio: Film Detective

The 1975 Oscar-winning documentary The Man Who Skied Down Everest, finds a champion skier attempting a 40-degree run down the South Col face, the sharp-edged notch between Mount Everest and Lhotse.

Yuichiro Miura is The Man Who SKied Down Everest

Yuichiro Miura is The Man Who SKied Down Everest

Directed by Bruce Nyznik and Lawrence Schiller, the movie tells the tale of Japanese alpinist Yûichirô Miura and his attempt to ski down Mt. Everest in 1970. With hundreds of crew members and 27 tons of equipment, the adventure seeker sets out to do the impossible.  Skiing down 6,600 feet of the mountain in two minutes and 40 seconds, using a parachute to brake his descent, Miura stops just shy of a would-be lethal crevasse in this one-of-a-kind account of an amazing feat.

Footage was shot in 35mm Panavision and is paired with readings from Miura’s diary – narrated by Douglas Rain (the inimitable voice of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey) – give an inside look at the daredevil’s intimate thoughts as he ascends on a grueling expedition that resulted in several deaths…all so Miura could live his dream.

Digitally restored in HD from the original 35mm film elements, the adventure-filled The Man Who Skied Down Everest is available on Blu-ray, DVD and The Film Detective OTT Apps (Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and Roku).

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.