{"id":28331,"date":"2024-03-28T01:03:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T05:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=28331"},"modified":"2024-03-25T19:38:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T23:38:50","slug":"david-breashears-dead-at-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/david-breashears-dead-at-68\/","title":{"rendered":"David Breashears dead at 68"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28333\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMAX-on-Everest-1996-lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28333\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMAX-on-Everest-1996.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Breashears and IMAX camera on Mount Everest c1996<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. David was perhaps best known for his documentary in IMAX on climbing Mount Everest. Clay Risen wrote an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/obituaries?page=2\"> obituary for the NYT<\/a> (linking to the actual obituary, you&#8217;ll hit a paywall if you do not have an account) .<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2024\/03\/16\/david-breashears-mountaineer-and-filmmaker-who-co-produced-mount-everest-documentary-dies-at-68\/\">City News<\/a> , &#8220;This photo [at top left] provided by Arcturus Motion Pictures, Inc., shows Mountaineer, filmmaker and author David Breashears while filming the IMAX documentary \u201cEverest\u201d that premiered in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Breashears, 68, died on Thursday, March 14, 2024 at his home in Marblehead, Mass. (Arcturus Motion Pictures, Inc. via AP)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You may not be aware, but the IMAX process originated here in Southern Ontario. IMAX used a larger film and a much larger frame. The film ran at high speed horizontally. Both Mark Singer of PHSC and the late Ron Walker of the PHSC were involved to a small degree with the IMAX process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. David was perhaps best known for his documentary in IMAX on climbing Mount Everest. Clay Risen wrote an obituary for the NYT (linking to the actual obituary, you&#8217;ll hit a paywall if you do not have an account) . &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/david-breashears-dead-at-68\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[351,3757,240],"class_list":["post-28331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-imax","tag-in-memoriam","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28336,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28331\/revisions\/28336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}