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The Man Who Skied Down Everest

Actors: Yuichiro Miura, Douglas Rain
ASIN : B000777HU2
Sales Rank : 12555
Director : Bruce Nyznik, Lawrence Schiller
Studio : Image Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0014381241020
UPC : 014381241020
Release Date : December 01, 2005
Publisher : Image Entertainment
Manufacturer : Image Entertainment
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Label : Image Entertainment
Running Time : 86

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This incredible, award-winning film features adventurer, poet and world-champion skier Yuichiro Miura as he and his team face the most challenging climb in the world, Mt. Everest. The ascent is fraught with tragedy, the descent miraculous. During the climb, they face an icefall that claims the lives of six of their team, still considered the worst natural disaster accident in Himalayan history. With a 35mm Panavision film crew in tow, they continue on to the South Col, only 350 meters from the summit, where Miura put his life in the hands of the gods in his descent. Using oxygen and a parachute to slow his speed, Miura skied 7,000 feet over sheer ice and rocks. Unbalanced by the gusting winds, he hit a boulder and fell 1,320 feet, smashing into rocks and ice ridges. A patch of snow was all that saved him, allowing his fall to end just moments away from the Bergshrund Crevasse. This final climax has been called the most exciting six minutes of film ever shot as Miura plummets helplessly down Everest's unforgiving icy slopes toward certain death.

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Second Thoughts

Actors: Timmy Turner, Travis Potter, Brett Schwartz, Jake Jakovich, Koby Abberton
ASIN : B0004Z304O
Sales Rank : 39180
Director : Timmy Turner
Studio : Epitaph / Wea
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0045778673094
UPC : 045778673094
Release Date : December 12, 2004
Publisher : Epitaph / Wea
Manufacturer : Epitaph / Wea
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Label : Epitaph / Wea
Running Time : 40

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Alone on a deserted island in the middle of nowhere, three surfers bring us some of the most amazing surfing footage from one of the most dangerous reefs in the world! Timmy Turner and friends Potter and Schwartz allow viewers to come along with them for a month long adventure, braving the elements, struggling to provide food and water, hoping to avoid injury, and non-stop surfing!

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Celestial Navigation Simplified DVD

Actor: Jr. William F. Buckley
ASIN : B00097FD6K
Sales Rank : 16748
Brand : Bennett Marine
Studio : Aviation Library
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Full length, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, NTSC
Feature : Bennett DVD WM F Buckley JRS Celestial Navigation Simplified
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0097278002034
UPC : 097278002034
Release Date : December 01, 2005
Publisher : Aviation Library
Manufacturer : Aviation Library
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Label : Aviation Library
Running Time : 48

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At last! An enjoyable and painless way to learn the wonderful and useful art/science of celestial navigation from one of the most popular sailors in the world – William F. Buckley, Jr.

Working mainly with the sun, Bill gives you his own personal step-by-step procedure, a vintage distillation of his 35 years of sailing experience, which includes Atlantic crossings.

Artfully designed computer graphics illustrate and clarify each step along the way, making this a fine program for learning this subject.

Subjects include The Sextant, Geographical Position, GHA and LHA, the Celestial Triangle, Sight Reduction tables, Declination, Sextant errors, Dip corrections, and much more.

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Knife in the Water: Essential Art House

Actors: Leon Niemcyzk, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Jolanta Umecka
ASIN : B001BEK8EM
Sales Rank : 23897
Director : Roman Polanski
Studio : Criterion Collection
Region Code : 1
Format : AC-3, Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0715515032322
UPC : 715515032322
Release Date : December 09, 2008
Publisher : Criterion Collection
Manufacturer : Criterion Collection
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Label : Criterion Collection
Running Time : 94

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A husband, a wife, a stranger, a knife: Roman Polanski sets them all adrift on a weekend filled with simmering resentments and gut-churning suspense in his seminal psychological thriller, still one of the greatest feature debuts in film history. With Knife in the Water, Polanski revealed his delight in exploring sexual and class boundaries with ruthless precision.

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To the Limit (IMAX) (2-Disc WMVHD Edition)

Actors: Nina Ananiashvili, Richard Kiley, Irek Mukhamedov, Maria Walliser, Tony Yaniro
ASIN : B00022PZ1K
Sales Rank : 51421
Director : Derek Hart, Greg MacGillivray, Mike Hoover
Studio : Image Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0014381239621
UPC : 014381239621
Release Date : December 29, 2004
Publisher : Image Entertainment
Manufacturer : Image Entertainment
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Label : Image Entertainment
Running Time : 35

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Three athletes demonstrate the marvelous workings of the human body in this revolutionary IMAX film, the first of its kind to use endoscopic (inner body) photography. Tony Yaniro (a well-known American rock climber), Olympic champion ski racer Maria Walliser, and Bolshoi Ballet prima ballerina Nina Ananiashvili reveal the glorious potential of the body as it strives for the best, pushing the amazing universe within to constantly move forward. Disc 2 includes the complete feature in Microsoft Windows Media High Definition, playable on your PC.

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Into the Thin Air of Everest - Mountain of Dreams, Mountain of Doom

Actor: Everest-Mountain of Dreams Mou
ASIN : B00000IML4
Sales Rank : 16480
Studio : Goldhil Home Media
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0743457122023
UPC : 743457122023
Number Of Discs : 1
Release Date : December 18, 2000
Publisher : Goldhil Home Media
Manufacturer : Goldhil Home Media
Label : Goldhil Home Media
Running Time : 190

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The incredible story of the world's highest mountain and the adventurers who tempt fate to reach its deadly summit.

Reaching five and a half miles into the sky, Mount Everest is a massive pyramid of intimidating rock, freezing cold and hurricane force winds. It towers above all other peaks and is the highest point on earth. Known as Chomolungma, Goddess Mother of the World, by the Sherpa people who live in its shadow, this awesome mountain has become the ultimate test of man's strength, endurance and will power. It is also deadly...for every five people who reach the summit, one dies trying. All who attempt its slopes risk their lives. Some survive in triumph, but many others never return from its icy heights.

This extraordinary collection is the definitive documentary of the history and mystery of Mount Everest.

Part I - "EVEREST: THE QUEST" includes the incredible stories of the early climbers, including George Leigh Mallory and Sir Edmund Hillary's legendary summit climb, and much more.

Part II - "EVEREST: TEMPTING FATE" explores the triumphant (and tragic) expeditions of the modern era and takes an in-depth view of the terrible events of 1996, the deadliest year in the history of Mount Everest (and the subject of the current bestselling book).

Part III - "THE CONQUEST OF EVEREST", is the thrilling Academy Award nominated best documentary about the 1953 British expedition that was the first to reach Mount Everest's summit.

EVEREST - Mountain of Dreams...Mountain of Doom takes viewers on the adventure of a lifetime and vividly captures the haunting beauty and constant danger of the most awesome mountain on earth.

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The story of Everest begins simply enough, with the British survey of the Himalayan Range to determine if Peak 15 is indeed the highest mountain in the world. Balloonists prove that it could be possible to survive at such a high altitude, beginning the race for the peak. Thirty years of defeats, failure, and death passed before two men would stand on the roof of the world. Since then, there have been new routes to find, new nations that wished to claim the peak. The stories of these men and women and the expeditions they served is told in Into the Thin Air of Everest.

From George Mallory to the 1996 tragedy, this series explores the major personalities and expeditions covering an 80-year span. Two faster-paced videos, Death on Everest and The Quest, are paired with the classic expedition documentary The Conquest of Everest, giving the series a great modern perspective with a good background of the history of the mountain. Those who know the mountain best tell the story of Everest: the guides, expedition leaders, and legends such as Sir Edmund Hillary.

As much as mountain climbing is the story of man against nature, there is also special attention paid to the science and equipment of high-mountain climbing. The demonstration of the technological advances in clothing and equipment that give the climbers a better chance to succeed, and sometimes to survive, is presented in contrast to the equipment of the pioneers who braved the mountain in clothes better suited to a stroll in the Scottish Highlands. The film also covers the major controversies in Everest's history--the questions that will never be answered, such as did Mallory make it to the top, and the questions that have no answers, such as whether the commercialization of Everest should be allowed.

The men, the women, the mountain, the dream, the nightmare, the quest, the conquest--all these are the stories told in Into the Thin Air of Everest. Among them are the heroes of Everest who made it and those who did not: Mallory, Hillary, Norgay, Hornbein, Unsoeld, Whittaker, Messner, Hoey. This documentary captures the timeless challenge of Everest: to stand on top of the world for no other reason than because it is there. --Aaron Abrams

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