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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381241020
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 01, 2005
Running Time: 85 minutes
Sales Rank: 45456
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1975
Editorial Review:
Description:
This incredible, award-winning film features adventurer, poet and world-champion skier Yuichiro Miura as he and his team face the most challenging climb in the world, Mt. Everest. The ascent is fraught with tragedy, the descent miraculous. During the climb, they face an icefall that claims the lives of six of their team, still considered the worst natural disaster accident in Himalayan history. With a 35mm Panavision film crew in tow, they continue on to the South Col, only 350 meters from the summit, where Miura put his life in the hands of the gods in his descent. Using oxygen and a parachute to slow his speed, Miura skied 7,000 feet over sheer ice and rocks. Unbalanced by the gusting winds, he hit a boulder and fell 1,320 feet, smashing into rocks and ice ridges. A patch of snow was all that saved him, allowing his fall to end just moments away from the Bergshrund Crevasse. This final climax has been called the most exciting six minutes of film ever shot as Miura plummets helplessly down Everest's unforgiving icy slopes toward certain death.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Physical & Spiritual Journey
The first time I saw this was on The Discovery Channel, 1987. I was an engineering student at the time and I only caught the very last part, where he skies down the mountatin. I told my friends about it, but no one believed me. A few weeks later, it was on again. This time I taped/recorded it (old school VHS), I had proof! This is a great documentary, not only of one man's physical journey but also the spiritual journey of all who attempt this quest.
Rating: - An incredible, scenic, courages adventure through a part of the world and culture that has already gone. Beautiful.
It is a fantastic work. The sherpas, the small towns they pass through, the culture that was alive back in the 1960s still, all that is beautifully filmed. All that is gone, changed forever now. The mountain, the challange, the courage, all can be felt in this film. I highly recommend it to everyone, but most especially to those who can remember supreme adventuring before goretex, gps /cell phones and high tech equipment. It's a remarkable film on many levels.
Rating:  - The Real Everest
This guy is nuts and the video is good. If you want to see what people really had to go thru to climb Everest without all the fluff added, see this video. Not to mention you get to see this guy attempt this insane feat.
Rating: - Kamikaze on Everest
Excellent DVD.Maybe the best Everest video.Totaly different camera posision than other films.Probably the most viues of this Mountain.Great film. Strongly recomended for evryone who like Everest subject.
Rating: - Incredible
I have been fascinated with Mount Everest since reading Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air". There was an underlying message in that book that made me want to understand more about why someone would risk their life and struggle through overwelming physical challenges just to say they had climbed the mountain. There was also a picture, in words, of a rugged beauty that served, in part, to explain that puzzle. I have purchased and enjoyed a number of cinematic accounts of Everest climbs and the beauty ... Read More
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