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The Man Who Skied Down Everest

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The Man Who Skied Down Everest	comment	The Man Who Skied Down Everest is a 1975 film directed by F.R. Crawley and Bruce Nyznik.It is a documentary feature about Yuichiro Miura, a Japanese daredevil skier and one-time holder of the speed record for downhill skiing who had the idea to, well, ski down Mt. Everest. Or rather, ski down about 8000 feet of Mt. Everest. Miura, his Japanese team, and their Sherpa guides set off in 1970 in an 800-man party and make the arduous climb up the mountain. Tragedy strikes when a glacier collapses and kills six Sherpas. Undeterred, Miura makes it to an altitude of 26,000 feet, then turns around and goes off on his downhill flight, in which he reaches speeds of over 100 mph even with a parachute to create drag.Voiceover narration was provided by Douglas Rain, better known as the voice of the HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Miura stops at a hospital high up in the mountains paid for by money from New Zealand, and meets none other than Sir Edmund Hillary—one of the first two people to summit Everest, along with Tenzing Norgay. Hillary says that if he were younger he'd go along.
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The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: Discussed Trope. Sir Edmund Hillary says that humanity has to keep challenging itself, that such is what it means to be human. Miura echoes this in his diary, saying "Challenge is what makes man."
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The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_4230e681	type	Vader Breath
The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_4230e681	comment	Vader Breath: Heard when Miura and other members of the expedition put on breathing apparatus and start breathing canned oxygen, as the air has gotten too think. It underscores the difficult conditions as they approach 26,000 feet.
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The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: Only a little bit of Miura's earlier skiing career, like when he broke the downhill speed record in Italy.
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The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Naturally, filled with jaw-dropping shots of the heights of Everest.
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The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_8ddd2bb5	type	Earthy Barefoot Character
The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_8ddd2bb5	comment	Earthy Barefoot Character: One shot shows the Sherpas carrying supplies up the mountain, barefoot. Miura marvels at how the Sherpas were "born to walk."
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The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: A whimsical sequence shows the expedition camped out high in the mountains, watching TV, having fun sliding around on a piece of ice—one man is caught pooping. This cuts directly to the sequence involving the collapse of the Khumbu Glacier and the deaths of six Sherpas.
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The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_ad7a381d	type	P.O.V. Cam
The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_ad7a381d	comment	P.O.V. Cam: Used for a couple of shots, like when the expedition is crossing a rickety rope bridge, and the camera points down to the crevasse below the rope bridge, which looks very deep indeed.
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The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: At one base camp they've managed to lug a TV and VCR. As Miura muses that this must be the highest tape player in the world, the Japanese and Sherpas watch Seven Samurai and Bonanza.
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The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_cb9afcd	type	The Ken Burns Effect
The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_cb9afcd	comment	The Ken Burns Effect: The only instance of this in the film shows a still of a man kneeling in the snow. The camera then zooms out to show the whole expedition, looking at the wrapped-up bodies of the six dead Sherpas in the foreground.
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The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_cd30716e	type	Boring Return Journey
The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_cd30716e	comment	Boring Return Journey: Does the film say anything at all about the journey back down the mountain? Nope!
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The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_dfbb1685	type	"Pan Up to the Sky" Ending
The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_dfbb1685	comment	"Pan Up to the Sky" Ending: As the Japanese begin their descent, the camera pans up to the sun, before the film ends with a shot of the summit of Everest in the distance.
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The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_fdaf37f0	type	Captain's Log
The Man Who Skied Down Everest / int_fdaf37f0	comment	Captain's Log: Rather than providing strictly conventional narration, Douglas Rain reads from a translation of Miura's diary, describing in first person his trip up the mountain.
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