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 40 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.
Post of the century. That wipeout is one of the best/most painful things I have ever seen. Just when you're thinking about how much it sucks to keep running over the same ski again and again or skipping over rocks, the dude gets launched off a cliff and the video ends. Radical.
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