Step by step, breath by breath, turn by turn……Skiing Everest
Product Features
Special edition combo pack features the film on Blu-ray and DVD
Includes footage of high-altitude skiing pioneers, including Yuichiro Miura and Fritz Stammberger
See amazing views of Mount Everest and other mountains in the Himalayas
Experience record-breaking high-altitude skiing on Everest
Featuring impossible views and incredible people
Product Description
Not satisfied with simply climbing up the tallest peak in the world, Mike and Steve Marolt also wanted to ski down it. Join the brothers and their friends as they risk their lives to do something only a handful of other people have done in Skiing Everest. Peer down dizzying Himalayan cliffs, relive death-defying moments, experience survival skiing and find out what a wind storm on Everest is capable of. This special edition combo pack offers both Blu-ray and DVD versions to maximize your experience.
Even Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to summit Mount Everest, said he didnt think skiing it was possible. Ski the tallest peak in the world? Not with the high altitude, not with the volatile weather, and definitely not with the hidden crevasses.
In 2007, Mike and Steve Marolt with their good friend Jim Gile, climbed 28,200 feet up Everest without oxygen before the extreme cold and potential loss of their toes turned them around. It was their second trip up and down the deadly mountain. The trio skied from just under 8,000 meters (about 26,000 feet), making them the only people to ski on Everest more than once.
Peer down the steep grade, hear their skis carve each icy turn and feel their short, halting breaths as they make their record-breaking run.
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December 12, 2010
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“Skiing Everest” is a Documentary That Will Take Your Breath Away,
BY BOB BLOOM * JOURNAL & COURIER * NOVEMBER 7, 2010
The focus of the movie is high-altitude skiers who climb some of the highest peaks in the world carrying their skis then challenge those slopes, making dangerous descents when they lock on their skis.
These athletes challenge their bodies as they refuse to use supplemental oxygen and dare death as they risk all for the ultimate thrill.
From Alaska to Tibet, directors Mike Marolt and Les Guthman, follow their small circle of friends and fellow sportsmen as they test themselves by setting higher and higher goals. No stuntmen or special effects can create the thrills that these athletes do by locking in their skis and doing what they love.
The documentary proves that despite all the advances in computer technology and other sciences, the planet’s majestic creations remain our most wondrous special effects and that men pitting their skills against nature still is the simplest and most
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