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PEAK PERFORMANCE

On May 6, 1970, Japanese ski adventurer Yuichiro Miura managed to carve down part of Mount Everest’s South Col, eventually falling down the icy face and careening toward an open crevasse, and likely death, until he was miraculously stopped by a snow patch. That day, the legend of the “man who skied down Everest” was born, and it was unlikely to be outdone by any sane human anytime soon.

After all, if skiing a small part of Everest, a vicious mountain where hundreds of climbers and Sherpas have lost their lives, was insanely risky for Miura, the thought of someone attempting to ski the much more treacherous

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