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The Man Who Skied Down Everest is a Canadian documentary about Yuichiro Miura, a Japanese alpinist who skied down Mount Everest in 1970. [1] The film was produced by Crawley Films' "Budge" Crawley and directed by Crawley and Bruce Nyznik.
David Sharp (15 February 1972 – 15 May 2006) was an English mountaineer who died near the summit of Mount Everest. [2] His death caused controversy and debate because he was passed by several other climbers heading to and returning from the summit as he was dying, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] although several others tried to help him.
The Conquest of Everest is a 1953 British Technicolor documentary film directed by George Lowe about various expeditions to the summit of Mount Everest. [2] It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [3] Cameraman Tom Stobart participated in the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition (as did George Lowe).
A documentary team discovered human remains on Mount Everest apparently belonging to a man who went missing while trying to summit the peak 100 years ago, National Geographic magazine reported Friday.
During the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition, two people died en route to the mountain: an unidentified porter and heart attack victim A. M. Kellas. [8] [9] The first recorded deaths on the mountain itself were seven porters who perished in an avalanche in the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition.
Alive tells the story of an Uruguayan rugby team (who were alumni of Stella Maris College), and their friends and family who were involved in the airplane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. The plane crashed into the Andes mountains on Friday 13 October 1972. Of the 45 people on the flight, only 16 survived 72 days of sub-zero temperatures.
Into the Mountains: The Extraordinary True Story of Survival in the Andes and its Aftermath. LID. ISBN 978-1910649411. Canessa, Roberto (2016). I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-6545-7. Canessa, Roberto; Zerbino, Gustavo (22 February 2024).
When Gustavo Zerbino watched “La Sociedad de la Nieve,” the 1972 plane crash survivor felt as if he was being submerged “into boiling water,” reliving the roughly 70 days he and his ...