The Man Who Skied Down Everest

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The Man Who Skied Down Everest is a documentary about Yuichiro Miura, a Japanese alpinist who skied down Mt. Everest. He skiied 6,600 feet in 2 mins and 20 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 decent.

Eight died during the expedition's ascent.

The South Col is a large level area at 26,000 feet, often used as the highest base camp on the southern route, 3,000 feet below the summit. The southern route is the one Jon Krakauer took in May of 1996, documented in the book "Into Thin Air". The South Col is where Beck Weathers wandered frozen and left for dead. At the base of the Lhotse face is the Khumbu Glacier. Its upper end is constantly pulling away from the Lhotse face leaving a bergschrund, or a crevasse.

Many have died by falling down this precipitous wall.