The Man Who Skied Down Everest

{{Infobox film

| name = The Man Who Skied Down Everest

| image = The Man Who Skied Down Everest.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = F. R. Crawley
Bruce Nyznik

| producer = F. R. Crawley
James Hager
Dale Hartleben

| writer = Judith Crawley

| narrator = Douglas Rain

| starring = Yuichiro Miura

| music = Larry Crosley
Nexus

| cinematography = Mitsuji Kanau

| editing = Bob Cooper
Millie Moore

| studio = Crawley Films
Ishihara International Productions

| distributor = Specialty Films (US)

| released = {{Film date|1975|09|19}}

| runtime = 84 minutes

| country = Canada
Japan
United States

| language = English

| budget = C$410,000

| gross =

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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.{{cite web |title=The Man Who Skied Down Everest |url=https://cfe.tiff.net/canadianfilmencyclopedia/content/films/man-who-skied-down-everest |website=cfe.tiff.net |publisher=Canadian Film Encyclopedia |access-date=28 March 2023}} The film was produced by Crawley Films' "Budge" Crawley and directed by Crawley and Bruce Nyznik.

Miura skied 2,000 m (6,600 ft) in two minutes and 20 seconds and fell 400 m (1,320 ft) down the steep Lhotse face from the Yellow Band just below the South Col. He used a large parachute to slow his descent. He came to a full stop just 76 m (250 ft) from the edge of a bergschrund, a large, deep crevasse where the flow ice shears away from stable ice on the rock face and begins to move downwards as a glacier.

The ski descent was the objective of The Japanese Everest Skiing Expedition 1970. Six Sherpa porters were killed in a single accident by a collapse of a section of the Khumbu Glacier along the main route to the base of the mountain, as well as a Japanese member who died of a heart attack.

Crawley Films won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for this picture.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1976 |title=The 48th Academy Awards (1976) Nominees and Winners |access-date=June 12, 2019 |work=oscars.org}} The Academy Film Archive preserved The Man Who Skied Down Everest in 2010.{{cite web|title=Preserved Projects|url=http://www.oscars.org/academy-film-archive/preserved-projects?title=The+Man+Who+Skied+Down+Everest&filmmaker=&category=All&collection=All|website=Academy Film Archive}}