After reading some reviews, I thought I might post a rejoinder. Others complain that the skier "only" actually skied a stretch of the Lho tse face, the glacier, which ruined their enjoyment as it does not live up to the title.
But to me, that seems like complaining "that a band produced only a single hit." Come on. How many hits did you produce? Remember, Yuichiro Miura, did not make the film. He didn't write the title. The film did use his admittedly pretentious diary accounts for the script, but he never talks about trying to ski from the summit to the base. He did ski very high on the mountain. I think that is an amazing achievement.
The film's critics also complain of the expedition size. But most Everest attempts used these huge parties to assault the mountain. The small, "Alpine style" was only just emerging in the west and didn't really start until with Reinhold Messner, when he and Peter Habeler climbed Gasherbrum I (K5) without oxygen equipment in 1975.
This is a beautiful film documenting a genuine mountaineering feat. The fact that he fell and slid much of the way doesn't detract from the effort of my interest in it. Sure, Miura gets a bit carried away in his writing style but that reflects more on the culture of the 60's in Nepal. This was the hippy era after all.
But to me, that seems like complaining "that a band produced only a single hit." Come on. How many hits did you produce? Remember, Yuichiro Miura, did not make the film. He didn't write the title. The film did use his admittedly pretentious diary accounts for the script, but he never talks about trying to ski from the summit to the base. He did ski very high on the mountain. I think that is an amazing achievement.
The film's critics also complain of the expedition size. But most Everest attempts used these huge parties to assault the mountain. The small, "Alpine style" was only just emerging in the west and didn't really start until with Reinhold Messner, when he and Peter Habeler climbed Gasherbrum I (K5) without oxygen equipment in 1975.
This is a beautiful film documenting a genuine mountaineering feat. The fact that he fell and slid much of the way doesn't detract from the effort of my interest in it. Sure, Miura gets a bit carried away in his writing style but that reflects more on the culture of the 60's in Nepal. This was the hippy era after all.