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12,276 Feet of Rock!
Jeremy, Tim, Gus, and I climbed and skied Mt. Adams this past Monday the 7th of July, 2008. The taste was sweet!
7/26/08: Today I changed the filetype of this video from a .wmv file to a .flv and installed the FLV Embed plugin on the blog. Hopefully, Mac users will be able to view this rock n roll summit now.
Speeding between death and ecstasy
Giora sent me this movie today. It amazed me with footage of Everest (spindrift!) and scared me nigh to death with a filmed ski descent of the South Col. Yikes.
the film quality is pretty stunning.
—Giora
Couldn’t agree more…
The Man Who Skied Down Everest is a documentary about Yuichiro Miura, a Japanese alpinist who skied down Mt. Everest in 1970. He skied 6,600 feet (2000 m) in 2 minutes and 40 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 descent.
—YouTube synopsis
The MCP
- Published: Apr 24th, 2008
- Category: Movies
Guess what I saw last night??
Yep, I lived through the era, but somehow missed seeing this one back in high school. The timing of this viewing is a bit serendipitous. Not only is TRON playing at the Cinerama this week, but this retro future look has come back into full fashion. Check out the colors on your fashionable young adults. Check Hipster Runoff or DiscoDust if you don’t believe me. Check MIA’s album covers. Check Girl Talk’s album covers.
At any rate, I really enjoyed this one and was glad to finally see it. Of course it’s dated, but the ideas persist today, perhaps especially so in our era of massive corporate power. And on this note, isn’t it an odd coincidence that MCP should stand, not only for the tyrannical computer program antagonist in the movie, but also for Microsoft Certified Professional.
