Japanese skier triumphs

Press, 2 December 1985, Page 26

Japanese skier triumphs

NZPA-AP Tokyo A Japanese professional skier, Yuichiro Miura, has succeeded in conquering and ski-ing down the slope of the highest peak in South America, becoming the first adventurer in the world to ski down slopes of the highest peaks of the seven continents, said an official of Miura’s company in Tokyo yesterday. The 53-year-old Miura, Japan’s first professional skier, scaled the 6959-metre high Mt Aconcagua in Argentina last Monday and sped down its slope for about 2000 metres where the snow was suited for skiing, said Hiroyuki Mori, an employee of Miura Dolphins Co. in Tokyo. “I finally succeeded in climbing the seven summits. This is a new record in the field of mountain ski-ing,” Mori quoted Miura as saying in his radio message sent to his crew in Mendoza, a town at the foot of Aconcagua. Miura’s 19-year-old son, Yuta, also skied down the slope with his father, according to a report conveyed to the Tokyo office by one of the 12-member party in Mendoza, Mori said. Miura, whose company specialises in sports events, first climbed and skied the 2230-metre Mt Kosciusko in Australia in 1966, Mori said.