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MALE REPORTER 1 (over TV):
It's the traffic jam atop the world:
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droves of climbers
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waiting for their chance
to summit Mount Everest.
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MALE REPORTER 2 (over TV):
With a large number of people,
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the longer wait means climbers
are spending more time
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in what's called the Death Zone.
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FEMALE REPORTER (over TV):
The second American dying in just days,
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bringing the total to 11 deaths
already this season.
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RENAN:
Locals view Everest essentially as a god,
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and by climbing the mountain,
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you're stepping on the heads
of their gods.
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MARK: I've never been an Everest person.
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The definition of adventure for me
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is an endeavor where the outcome
is totally unknown.
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The Mallory and Irvine mystery
is one of those stories,
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like, you can't imagine
an endeavor with more unknowns
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than what they were facing in the 1920s.
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Climbing to the highest point on Earth,
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I think, in those days,
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wasn't too much different
from the idea of going to the moon.
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George Mallory pioneered
the first expeditions to Everest.
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The world was shocked
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when he and his climbing partner
Sandy Irvine disappeared.
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They were spotted just 800
vertical feet from the summit
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and were never seen again.
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The essence of the Mallory
and Irvine story for me
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is the spirit of the climbers themselves.
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What was driving them.
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What happened to those guys?
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It's not just solving the mystery
of two guys who disappeared.
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It's solving the mystery
to try to figure out
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if they might have been the first
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to summit the greatest mountain
in the world.
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THOM: Back in 1999,
I had the opportunity
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to go look for the bodies
of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine.
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Our goal was finding the Kodak VPK,
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or vest pocket camera,
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they're believed to have carried
with them on that final day.
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The hope is that the film inside it
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will prove if they actually
made it to the summit.
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On the very first day
of searching, we found a body.
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His body appears to be mummified.
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There's rope around his waist.
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Can see a boot.
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MAN: Here, wait, this is George Mallory.
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THOM: Really?
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MAN: George Mallory.
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THOM: Oh, my God.
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Oh, my God.
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MAN: See that? George Mallory.
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THOM: Oh, my God.
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THOM: He was face down in the surface.
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His face was completely in,
and his hands were like this.
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Around, especially around
the left part of his waist,
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it looked like the rope
really pulled tightly.
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You could actually see the rope
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kind of imprinted
into the side of his waist.
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Below his right knee, his leg
was broken completely in half
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and it was an open wound fracture.
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And up there, an injury like that,
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there's no way you're getting out of it.
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And I can remember how overwhelming it was
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to be in the presence
of this guy, this man,
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this icon of exploration.
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But we had a job to do.
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We wanted to try and tell his story.
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So we searched the body
as carefully as we could.
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We found some personal effects,
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but the most important thing
that was not with Mallory
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was of course the camera.
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THOM: Burying George Mallory.
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We didn't find the camera.
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We looked fairly hard.
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MARK: Since then
people have speculated,
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and I think this is logical,
that Irvine had the camera.
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Mallory was the leader.
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So it would have made sense
for Irvine, you know,
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as his almost like assistant
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to be the one taking pictures
of the-- you know, the boss.
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THOM: Can you imagine that camera?
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It's the pot of gold
at the end of the rainbow.
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If we find that camera,
let me tell you something,
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it's gonna just change things.
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This is gonna be the greatest event
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in the history of mountaineering.
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MARK: History books say the first climbers
to summit Mount Everest
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were Tenzing Norgay
and Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953.
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If Irvine took a photo
on the summit in 1924,
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it would rewrite history.
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It's out there somewhere,
the camera exists.
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It's there.
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It just has to be found.
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We're on our way
to go see Tom Holzel,
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who is an Everest historian.
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He has more knowledge about this
than anyone alive,
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and he just contacted Thom the other day
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and said that he had GPS coordinates
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for the location of Irvine.
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He did the first expedition
to try to find these guys in 1986,
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but there was too much snow
on the mountain
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so they got shut down.
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And when they eventually
found Mallory in '99,
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he was very close to where Holzel
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had thought that he would be.
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TOM: It's interesting to see
when you have an assembly of facts,
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can you figure out what happened?
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Can you get to the conclusion?
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I think you can.
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That's what is so interesting
about history.
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Mallory and Irvine
went missing on June 8, 1924.
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In 1960, the Chinese
made their first attempt
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from the north side,
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and one of the climbers
climbed down a more direct route
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and he said he saw a dead British climber.
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A British? How do you know that?
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He was wearing braces.
Braces are suspenders.
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All the English wore braces.
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So that was a fantastic clue.
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And then in 1995,
a Sherpa named Chhiring Dorje
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also took a more direct route
and also saw a body.
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So we have now two eyewitness accounts.
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That means there is a body there.
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So that's when I went to Brad Washburn
at the Museum of Science
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and I said, "Brad, do we have
any good aerial photographs?"
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And he says,
"Tom, you've come to the right place."
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(film projector running)
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They flew over Everest
in a Learjet at 40,000 feet
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and did extensive mapping photographs.
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And they seamed them together
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and I made this eight-foot picture.
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You can see the two trails
where they diverge.
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And there's only a very short area
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where the more direct route,
the lower route,
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passes by these slots.
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So if he's in a slot, and we know he is,
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because two people say he is,
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there's only one place
where Irvine can be.
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MARK: This is what you've come up with.
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TOM: Yep.
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MARK: Thom and I are proposing to be
your boots on the ground.
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TOM: Yep.
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What are you giving the odds
that he's actually there?
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TOM: He can't not be there.
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MARK: So you're saying,
"He can't not be there."
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MARK: Wow.
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THOM: He has worked for years
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on identifying the exact
location of that spot,
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and he swears, if we go there,
we will find Sandy Irvine.
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(child talking indistinctly)
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MARK: Climbing and adventure
and exploration for me
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is kind of like a compulsion.
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I've been on a lot
of expeditions in my life.
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And it's just something that
you feel, where it feels right.
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Thom Pollard is an old friend of mine,
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and I said to Thom,
"This is a story that needs to be told.
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This is the trip that you and I
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were always meant to take together."
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THOM: Ever since that day in May of 1999,
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this thing has just become part
of the fabric of who I am.
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Here we are, 20 years later,
I'm finally getting back
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to have another look around,
to try to wrap things up.
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MARK: I shared the idea
for this expedition with Renan Ozturk.
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Renan is a film maker.
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We've done a lot of adventures together
in the past,
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and he's one of the very
best climbers in the world.
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Mark has specifically
avoided Everest in his career
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because Everest isn't true exploration.
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And I think this mystery
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is his way of connecting with Everest.
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He's the chief detective.
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MARK: I have no idea
what it will be like up there.
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I've never done anything like this.
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But I know what it will be like for me,
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it will be similar to what it was
like for them 100 years ago.
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RENAN: We can actually see
what that expedition was like
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for them back in 1924.
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Team member John Noelle brought
a film camera all the way to Everest,
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and he captured incredible footage
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of the entire expedition.
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(cowbells clanging)
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RENAN: We're gonna go, just like they did,
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through the mountains
on the south side of the Himalaya.
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Cross the border
onto the north side of China.
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RENAN: Up into the Tibetan Plateau.
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MARK: The focus is on the Irvine location
and finding the body,
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but it's the whole journey to get there.
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And seeing the places that they were,
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and putting myself
into some of the exact positions
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that they were in,
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makes this so compelling for me.
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THOM: I've pictured finding
Sandy Irvine many, many times.
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His mom and dad left their back door
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open and unlocked for three years,
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just in case he came home.
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And I feel like if I could go
and find Sandy Irvine,
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they could lock their door.
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MARK: We're getting our first proper view
of Mount Everest
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and it is absolutely off the hook.
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Spectacular.
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Awe inspiring.
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More than a little intimidating.
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Mallory wrote in his journal,
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"It is like the wildest creation
of a dream.
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Everest. A rugged giant.
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A prodigious white fang.
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A colossal rock plastered with snow.
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From a mountaineer's point of view,
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no more appalling sight can be imagined."
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THOM:
Mallory and Irvine were really special.
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Mallory was this guy
who just couldn't get it out of himself,
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that he had to go to every length
to try to be the first person
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to stand on the summit.
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And now here comes this young kid,
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22 years old, Sandy Irvine,
who's really strong,
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great athlete, knew how to fidget
with the oxygen apparatus.
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And there they are just sealed together
in history for eternity
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as the symbol of going after things
that everybody thinks is impossible.
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It's 100 years later
and I'm very unsure about whether
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I could do any of this stuff,
using oxygen with fixed ropes
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the whole way, and a guide.
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And these guys were doing it
back when doctors were telling them
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that if you slept at 23,000 feet
that you would die.
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So the daring, the boldness
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and their role as explorers in history
is unparalleled.
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JAMIE: I'd like to take
all the gear out of the vehicle.
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We can drop it in the dining tent.
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MARK: Jamie is the guide.
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He's summited Mount Everest five times.
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His primary job, apart from logistics
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and getting us from point A to point B,
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is to make sure that we come home
from this expedition.
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JAMIE:
When we're on Everest, life is simple.
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It's much more about life or death,
black or white, yeah?
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It's not about a color world up there
at all.
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And the basics of it is Everest is so tall
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that it sticks up in the jet stream.
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When the jet stream's on top of Everest,
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there can be raging winds.
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There might only be one or two
or three days suitable to climb Everest.
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For the whole year.
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MARK: In terms of what it's like to search
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high on Mount Everest for a body,
I have no idea.
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That's one of the reasons
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why I'm so enthralled with this expedition
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because I just have this singular focus,
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which is Mallory and Irvine,
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Mount Everest and following
in their footsteps,
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and there's kind of nothing else.
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Mallory and Irvine were last seen
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climbing a rock face
just below the summit.
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Climbing that high
has to be done in stages,
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by hiking along a glacier
from Base Camp to Advanced Base Camp.
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Then climbing to the top of a ridge
called the North Col.
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From there, it's a final
two-day push up the ridge,
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all the way to the summit.
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(Sherpas singing)
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RENAN: Today is a big day.
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We're doing our Puja,
which is a ceremony that the Sherpas do
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to ask for permission and good luck
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to climb the mountain.
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MARK: We just crested 18,000 feet,
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so we've gained about 1,000 feet
from Base Camp.
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This is another milestone in the journey,
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in that we just turned off
the main Rongbuk Glacier
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which is the route that we're gonna follow
up to the North Col.
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I'm really psyched.
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I'm excited
and I'm looking up at this mountain
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and the thing's calling to me.
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I wanna get up there.
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JAMIE: Final push.
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MARK: Ah. Wow.
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JAMIE: It's been a great day.
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But I think everyone's hurting a little.
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The last push is... is hard.
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(wind whistling)
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RENAN: Climbing Mount Everest
has to do with cardiovascular fitness,
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how your physiology of your body
actually handles the altitude.
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(coughing)
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RENAN: You can be one of the strongest
climbers in the world,
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but your physiology just
doesn't work for Mount Everest.
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THOM:
It's a slow, cold, agonizing process.
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It slams you.
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MARK: What I want to do right now
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is I want to chart out
where we're gonna go,
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and then the point at which
we're gonna fix our rope
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and rappel down to Holzel's spot.
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Okay.
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MARK: Here's the second step,
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and then this is the Holzel/Xu Jing area.
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So we have to go to this spot.
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Our search zone is high on the mountain,
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in an area known as the Death Zone.
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Our time at that altitude
will be extremely limited.
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The plan is to follow Mallory and Irvine's
route to the summit,
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then traverse back across the ridge
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to find Tom Holzel's spot.
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And go off rope, searching,
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across a steep slope of loose rock,
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with a 7,000-foot drop below.
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THOM: The sun's just hit,
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we're moving out of ABC to the North Col.
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I know I'm not dying
because I desire coffee so badly.
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RENAN: It's pretty important to note that
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Everest doesn't get climbed alone.
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We've got all of our Sherpas
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taking all of our advanced camera loads
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and all of the little things we need
to survive the North Col.
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MARK: Off we go.
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RENAN: Not sure how it's gonna go,
but a lot of vert to climb.
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2,000 feet.
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♪ ♪
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We just started up the technical part
to the North Col.
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I can't believe the conga line.
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There must be 200 people up there.
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It's a little scary.
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If you look above us,
there's a giant serac
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just waiting to cut loose in the hot sun.
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Like textbook (bleep)
you don't wanna be under.
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Let's move.
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♪ ♪
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(wind whistling)
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MARK: That was burly.
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My lungs are... not feeling great.
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RENAN: We're all just hurting,
just trying to acclimatize.
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It's just a lot.
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I was feeling decent
and then hit a pretty big wall, but...
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(coughs)
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At least we all made it.
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RENAN: Yeah.
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MARK: You literally were only like,
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20 minutes behind, like no big deal.
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THOM: Yeah, yeah, don't worry about it.
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RENAN: You're looking really good, Matt,
I gotta say.
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Ah, yeah. Yeah.
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RENAN: It was a suffer-fest.
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We were all suffering,
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and the hundred-mile-an-hour
death winds were coming.
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Charts of the jet stream passing
right through the summit.
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That does not look good.
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MATTHEW: Are we going to be alright?
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(wind buffeting)
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THOM: Broken tent.
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(yawns)
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MARK: When we woke up in the morning,
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poked my head out the door of the tent,
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looked up at the North Face,
which had been beautiful.
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That was now replaced
with this nasty, swirling cloud.
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Holy crap.
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(wind roaring)
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MARK: Ahhh!
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Renan.
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THOM: Do you wanna come in here?
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(wind roaring)
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MAN: Oh.
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MAN 2: Is everyone okay?
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RENAN: It threw a tent in the air
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and nearly killed a few people.
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I'm glad they were clipped into fix lines
375
00:22:29,333 --> 00:22:31,208
'cause it threw 'em off the ridge
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and they were just hanging limp,
halfway down the face.
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(wind roaring)
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♪ ♪
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MARK: Pretty windy now,
but not nearly as bad,
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so I'm going next door.
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Renan's gonna launch the drone.
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See what happens.
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(drone humming)
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RENAN: We can search 1,000 times more
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just through this
technological advancement
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of what the drones are capable of.
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MARK: It was kind of our vision to do
all these drone flights
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and to photograph the terrain
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rather than having to put boots
all over the mountain,
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which is incredibly dangerous.
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RENAN:
This is, this is good, we're cranking.
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It's unbelievable
what you're doing, Renan.
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♪ ♪
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RENAN: Take a photo here.
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MARK: Yeah.
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(click)
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RENAN:
And then should I go in a little tighter?
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MARK: If you can.
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RENAN:
Just gonna get right in there this time.
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00:24:05,125 --> 00:24:07,125
Gonna really push it.
401
00:24:07,208 --> 00:24:08,333
MARK: Oh, my God, dude.
402
00:24:08,875 --> 00:24:10,667
You're frickin' right there.
403
00:24:13,041 --> 00:24:14,500
You're so there.
404
00:24:14,583 --> 00:24:16,458
Yep, get that ledge...
405
00:24:16,542 --> 00:24:18,041
and up in here.
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00:24:19,417 --> 00:24:21,500
(click)
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00:24:21,583 --> 00:24:23,375
RENAN: Getting a thumb workout.
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00:24:24,500 --> 00:24:26,417
MARK: Holzel would be losing his mind
409
00:24:26,500 --> 00:24:28,333
if he could see this right now.
410
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:29,917
(click)
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00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,875
RENAN: Alright, I'm gonna come home.
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MARK: Bring her home.
413
00:24:35,875 --> 00:24:41,458
We just flew a drone to 28,300 feet
on Mount Everest.
414
00:24:41,542 --> 00:24:43,542
No one's ever done that (bleep) before.
415
00:24:44,375 --> 00:24:46,250
You're in uncharted territory.
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♪ ♪
417
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(drone humming)
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(beep)
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00:25:01,125 --> 00:25:02,583
RENAN: Okay.
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00:25:02,667 --> 00:25:04,792
First-hand view. Drone POV.
421
00:25:04,875 --> 00:25:06,291
MARK: Yeah. Just a little.
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00:25:06,375 --> 00:25:07,542
THOM: Oh, man.
423
00:25:08,041 --> 00:25:10,583
I haven't seen these, holy (bleep) dude.
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00:25:11,208 --> 00:25:13,000
MARK: So we have two eye witness accounts,
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00:25:13,083 --> 00:25:14,834
Chhiring Dorje and Xu Jing,
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00:25:14,917 --> 00:25:18,166
but Xu Jing said that
Irvine was in a slot.
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00:25:18,250 --> 00:25:21,208
I see a slot there but it's shadowy.
428
00:25:21,333 --> 00:25:23,083
THOM: Wow.
429
00:25:23,166 --> 00:25:26,750
MARK: I think this matches up
really closely with Holzel's theory.
430
00:25:29,417 --> 00:25:31,834
Holzel's theory goes like this.
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00:25:31,917 --> 00:25:35,875
Mallory and Irvine are returning
together down the North Ridge.
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We don't know
if they made it to the summit
433
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,250
but we know they're on the way back down,
and they're in a hurry.
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00:25:42,333 --> 00:25:44,417
It's a snow storm.
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Mallory falls.
436
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The rope catches him,
but Irvine can't pull him up.
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00:25:49,625 --> 00:25:51,834
So he cuts Mallory loose.
438
00:25:52,834 --> 00:25:56,208
Mallory continues on but he falls again
439
00:25:56,792 --> 00:25:58,709
and dies from his injuries.
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00:25:59,208 --> 00:26:01,250
Irvine is still working his way down,
441
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following the line of least resistance.
442
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,917
He's exhausted, he's cold,
he's run out of oxygen.
443
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,792
He crawls behind a rock
to take shelter from the weather
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and he freezes to death.
445
00:26:14,125 --> 00:26:15,959
This zone right in here,
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this is where I wanna go, on foot.
447
00:26:18,583 --> 00:26:21,458
Okay.
Let's talk a little strategy, quickly,
448
00:26:21,542 --> 00:26:25,041
in terms of what we should do
for the next few days,
449
00:26:25,125 --> 00:26:28,041
with our weather forecasts, we go to ABC.
450
00:26:28,208 --> 00:26:32,500
It's hard work going down,
but we recover so well.
451
00:26:32,625 --> 00:26:34,375
With Everest, with Chomolungma,
452
00:26:34,458 --> 00:26:36,709
it's not a question of when we're ready.
453
00:26:36,792 --> 00:26:40,291
It's a question of
when she's ready for us.
454
00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:48,917
The equivalent of going
for a three mile run
455
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,959
is the energy it takes to put
on your boots.
456
00:26:54,417 --> 00:26:58,083
Alright, dude. I'll follow you down.
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MARK: It's a tiny bit demoralizing to lose
458
00:27:05,291 --> 00:27:07,083
all this ground that we've gained,
459
00:27:07,166 --> 00:27:08,917
but that's what we have to do.
460
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,000
Gotta go down, recover as best we can,
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00:27:12,083 --> 00:27:13,709
then come back up.
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00:27:25,875 --> 00:27:28,083
RENAN: Honestly, it feels like
a low point in the expedition.
463
00:27:28,166 --> 00:27:30,875
We're all just really tired.
464
00:27:30,959 --> 00:27:33,667
And a lot of us are getting sick.
465
00:27:34,208 --> 00:27:37,834
But the main mission was to fly the drones
really close to the search area
466
00:27:37,917 --> 00:27:40,625
and we, I think
we really accomplished that.
467
00:27:40,709 --> 00:27:44,166
We gotta pull them up on the laptop,
take a closer look.
468
00:27:44,250 --> 00:27:46,208
And there's all these little crevices
469
00:27:46,291 --> 00:27:48,709
where we think the body might be.
470
00:27:48,792 --> 00:27:53,709
This photo right here,
it's absolutely incredible
471
00:27:53,834 --> 00:27:55,500
and...
472
00:27:55,583 --> 00:28:01,041
I think I'm looking at the Holzel spot
right here.
473
00:28:05,417 --> 00:28:06,792
What's that?
474
00:28:11,542 --> 00:28:13,917
THOM: Whoa.
Yeah, there's something.
475
00:28:15,959 --> 00:28:17,625
It's a dead body.
476
00:28:17,709 --> 00:28:19,542
MARK: Oh. Holy (bleep).
477
00:28:19,625 --> 00:28:21,333
THOM: Not an old dead body.
478
00:28:22,709 --> 00:28:24,834
MARK: That black, that's his leg.
479
00:28:24,917 --> 00:28:28,208
THOM: Yeah, faded red jacket.
480
00:28:28,291 --> 00:28:31,291
JAMIE: This is probably a Japanese guy.
481
00:28:31,375 --> 00:28:32,750
Now, during the night somebody said,
482
00:28:32,834 --> 00:28:35,750
"Did you see him in trouble?"
and we said "No,"
483
00:28:35,834 --> 00:28:38,375
but he was only 10 meters away
from the trail.
484
00:28:40,291 --> 00:28:43,542
THOM: There's over 100 bodies on Everest,
485
00:28:43,625 --> 00:28:46,917
frozen in the place where they died.
486
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,875
It's crazy but there's just
no good way to get them down.
487
00:28:50,959 --> 00:28:55,375
Imagine dragging a 200 pound frozen,
stiff body
488
00:28:55,458 --> 00:28:56,834
down the mountain.
489
00:28:56,917 --> 00:28:58,750
It's nearly impossible.
490
00:28:58,834 --> 00:29:02,250
And the fact is, is that no matter
how many bodies are on it,
491
00:29:02,333 --> 00:29:04,875
it is the highest point in the world.
492
00:29:04,959 --> 00:29:08,208
There's nothing that's gonna stop people
from wanting to touch it.
493
00:29:09,041 --> 00:29:12,709
(wind whistling)
494
00:29:13,250 --> 00:29:17,000
Oh, wow. The conga line at the top.
495
00:29:17,667 --> 00:29:19,500
Holy (bleep).
496
00:29:20,709 --> 00:29:24,333
There's only a few days a year
suitable for a summit climb,
497
00:29:24,417 --> 00:29:26,834
and there was an early weather window.
498
00:29:26,917 --> 00:29:29,667
And there was, I don't know,
something like 200, 300 people
499
00:29:29,750 --> 00:29:32,333
trying to climb Mount Everest
from the north.
500
00:29:32,959 --> 00:29:37,041
Every single one of 'em went
for the first weather window.
501
00:29:38,041 --> 00:29:39,000
Wow.
502
00:29:41,458 --> 00:29:44,709
That's really inspiring
to see that, that's incredible.
503
00:29:44,792 --> 00:29:46,375
THOM: Do you wish
you were there with them?
504
00:29:46,458 --> 00:29:47,792
MARK: Yes.
505
00:29:47,875 --> 00:29:49,041
THOM: Let's be real.
506
00:29:49,125 --> 00:29:50,500
I do, I mean.
507
00:29:50,959 --> 00:29:52,583
I'm not gonna lie.
508
00:29:53,125 --> 00:29:55,333
It feels weird to be sitting here
509
00:29:55,417 --> 00:29:58,083
while all the action is going on up high.
510
00:29:58,166 --> 00:30:00,542
JAMIE: There are queues of people,
511
00:30:00,667 --> 00:30:02,667
lines and lines of people waiting.
512
00:30:02,750 --> 00:30:05,333
MARK: Jamie said to us, "You know what?
513
00:30:05,417 --> 00:30:08,583
This is a bad idea.
I got a bad feeling about it.
514
00:30:08,667 --> 00:30:10,417
There's gonna be huge lines,
515
00:30:10,500 --> 00:30:12,834
and we're gonna get entangled
up in the whole thing.
516
00:30:12,917 --> 00:30:16,083
And it's gonna be a mess.
It's gonna be a (bleep) show."
517
00:30:19,542 --> 00:30:22,166
MALE REPORTER 1 (over TV):
It's the the traffic jam atop the world.
518
00:30:22,250 --> 00:30:25,500
An image now emblematic
of a deadly new normal,
519
00:30:25,583 --> 00:30:29,208
droves of climbers waiting
for their chance to summit Mount Everest.
520
00:30:30,041 --> 00:30:31,625
MALE REPORTER 1 (over TV):
On Everest, climbers are forced to wait
521
00:30:31,709 --> 00:30:33,208
for windows of good weather.
522
00:30:33,291 --> 00:30:35,417
When it clears,
everyone moves to the summit
523
00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:38,166
and with a larger number of people,
the longer wait means
524
00:30:38,250 --> 00:30:41,291
climbers are spending more time
in what's called The Death Zone,
525
00:30:41,375 --> 00:30:43,583
that's above 28,000 feet,
526
00:30:43,667 --> 00:30:46,291
where the lack of oxygen can be lethal.
527
00:30:46,375 --> 00:30:48,125
MALE REPORTER 3 (over TV):
Most of the fatalities this year
528
00:30:48,208 --> 00:30:49,500
came on the way down,
529
00:30:49,583 --> 00:30:53,000
with climbers dying
from exhaustion, dehydration,
530
00:30:53,083 --> 00:30:56,917
heart attack, stroke,
or simply running out of oxygen.
531
00:30:57,208 --> 00:30:59,125
FEMALE REPORTER (over TV):
That growing crisis on Mount Everest,
532
00:30:59,208 --> 00:31:01,250
a second American
dying in just days bringing
533
00:31:01,333 --> 00:31:04,792
the total to 11 deaths
already this season.
534
00:31:07,458 --> 00:31:09,417
THOM:
The news is going crazy.
535
00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:13,291
I've gotten texts from people
I haven't heard from in ages.
536
00:31:14,375 --> 00:31:17,333
We are not these people
who are on this line,
537
00:31:17,417 --> 00:31:18,959
getting to the summit.
538
00:31:19,041 --> 00:31:21,208
First of all, that's the south side.
539
00:31:22,083 --> 00:31:25,458
We stayed down
to let the crowds disappear.
540
00:31:26,208 --> 00:31:27,959
The press goes crazy.
541
00:31:28,041 --> 00:31:32,208
Every frickin' reporter is talking about
542
00:31:32,291 --> 00:31:36,917
what a bunch of arrogant (bleep)
people are, who climb that mountain.
543
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:38,500
It's not true.
544
00:31:38,709 --> 00:31:41,709
MARK: And you're sitting at home
and you're looking at the photos on CNN
545
00:31:41,792 --> 00:31:44,750
and you just think,
"Ah, what a bunch of selfish jerks."
546
00:31:44,834 --> 00:31:50,166
But when you're here, you realize, um...
547
00:31:50,250 --> 00:31:53,750
that it's actually something
kinda special going on here.
548
00:31:57,166 --> 00:31:59,125
The spirit that's driving those people
549
00:31:59,208 --> 00:32:02,709
is I think the same spirit
that was driving Mallory and Irvine.
550
00:32:02,792 --> 00:32:04,333
We wanna solve the mystery,
551
00:32:04,417 --> 00:32:07,667
but this mountain is pretty, um, alluring.
552
00:32:07,750 --> 00:32:09,500
THOM: It's a lot of freakin' people
waiting in line.
553
00:32:09,583 --> 00:32:10,500
It sucks you in.
554
00:32:11,917 --> 00:32:14,667
THOM: I had the opportunity to actually
555
00:32:14,750 --> 00:32:17,875
experience and be beside
George Mallory's body.
556
00:32:18,875 --> 00:32:21,291
I looked right into his face.
557
00:32:21,375 --> 00:32:24,917
This is the face of a man
who had three children.
558
00:32:25,083 --> 00:32:27,333
He had a wife at home.
559
00:32:27,417 --> 00:32:30,834
He was just a guy who was out there
doing what he loved.
560
00:32:32,959 --> 00:32:36,417
People have lost their lives here
561
00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:39,458
for almost 100 years.
562
00:32:39,542 --> 00:32:41,625
And they're gonna keep
coming here no matter what,
563
00:32:41,709 --> 00:32:42,875
no matter how many people die.
564
00:32:42,959 --> 00:32:44,291
A hundred could have died.
565
00:32:44,375 --> 00:32:46,500
They'll be coming back next year.
566
00:32:57,291 --> 00:32:59,166
MARK:
We were waiting in Advanced Base Camp
567
00:32:59,250 --> 00:33:01,291
for the crowds to clear,
568
00:33:01,375 --> 00:33:05,375
and the day before we were set to leave,
569
00:33:05,458 --> 00:33:07,834
we went for a little hike around camp
570
00:33:07,917 --> 00:33:10,041
and on the way back
571
00:33:10,125 --> 00:33:15,875
Thom had some kind
of bizarre neurologic episode.
572
00:33:18,667 --> 00:33:20,875
Thom, what's going on?
573
00:33:20,959 --> 00:33:23,291
THOM: Getting my blood pressure taken.
574
00:33:23,375 --> 00:33:27,542
I had this,
just before I popped into my tent,
575
00:33:27,625 --> 00:33:31,625
I had this really, this tingling,
576
00:33:31,709 --> 00:33:33,959
kind of almost pleasant,
577
00:33:34,041 --> 00:33:37,458
believe it or not,
feeling here in my cheek,
578
00:33:37,542 --> 00:33:40,583
and it moved kinda up into my eye area.
579
00:33:40,667 --> 00:33:41,667
Throughout the expedition
580
00:33:41,750 --> 00:33:45,750
I've been communicating
with Dr. Peter Hackett.
581
00:33:45,834 --> 00:33:48,875
You know, he's a high altitude doctor.
582
00:33:48,959 --> 00:33:51,959
And I told him about Thom's symptoms.
583
00:33:52,041 --> 00:33:54,583
He said, "Mm, that doesn't sound good.
584
00:33:54,667 --> 00:33:58,834
You know, it's possible
that he had a TIA,"
585
00:33:58,917 --> 00:34:01,750
which I think stands
for trans ischemic attack,
586
00:34:01,834 --> 00:34:05,083
it's kind of a miniature stroke.
587
00:34:05,166 --> 00:34:09,291
"Numbness can occur from Diamox,
588
00:34:09,959 --> 00:34:12,291
but not trouble moving lips."
589
00:34:13,125 --> 00:34:15,125
So you definitely had trouble
moving your lips?
590
00:34:15,208 --> 00:34:16,250
Yeah.
591
00:34:16,333 --> 00:34:17,208
MARK: Yeah?
592
00:34:17,959 --> 00:34:22,583
"He probably shouldn't go up
because a chance this is a TIA."
593
00:34:26,959 --> 00:34:29,583
If it was a TIA, you don't wanna go up.
594
00:34:29,667 --> 00:34:30,667
THOM: Yeah.
595
00:34:30,750 --> 00:34:33,000
No one would go up, because...
596
00:34:33,083 --> 00:34:35,125
Yeah, then you're (bleep).
597
00:34:35,208 --> 00:34:37,208
...you could have a stroke and die.
598
00:34:37,291 --> 00:34:38,166
Yeah.
599
00:34:40,917 --> 00:34:44,500
♪ ♪
600
00:34:44,583 --> 00:34:47,667
MARK:
I don't wanna go up there without him.
601
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,500
I kinda wanna encourage him to
just go anyway but I feel like
602
00:34:51,583 --> 00:34:56,917
that would be irresponsible
because if he really did have a TIA
603
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,500
and then he died up on the mountain,
604
00:34:59,583 --> 00:35:04,834
you know, that would be on me,
if I encouraged him to go.
605
00:35:09,583 --> 00:35:11,959
It's your call, Thom.
606
00:35:12,041 --> 00:35:15,333
RENAN: It is your decision,
it's just a really hard one
607
00:35:15,417 --> 00:35:19,291
because this story isn't life or death.
608
00:35:19,500 --> 00:35:23,792
And uh... yep.
609
00:35:23,875 --> 00:35:25,250
MARK: Yeah, you've got kids.
610
00:35:25,333 --> 00:35:30,375
I mean, I have four of my own so I kinda
have a unique perspective on that.
611
00:35:30,959 --> 00:35:34,375
And for me, I think about them, you know,
612
00:35:34,458 --> 00:35:36,917
like, is it worth it for them?
613
00:35:38,166 --> 00:35:39,291
Alright.
614
00:35:43,834 --> 00:35:47,709
MARK: Thom's my original partner
in this whole endeavor.
615
00:35:47,792 --> 00:35:51,750
He's sitting right next to me
and I'm looking at him
616
00:35:51,834 --> 00:35:54,417
and he's realizing
that his climb is over.
617
00:35:54,834 --> 00:35:58,750
His dream, you know,
to try to find Sandy Irvine
618
00:35:58,834 --> 00:36:00,959
and try to solve this mystery,
619
00:36:01,041 --> 00:36:02,166
it's over.
620
00:36:04,291 --> 00:36:05,542
Oh, my God.
621
00:36:06,625 --> 00:36:08,583
That's the hardest thing...
622
00:36:09,458 --> 00:36:10,875
in the world.
623
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:16,458
Watching your blood brothers go onward.
624
00:36:20,542 --> 00:36:25,959
♪ ♪
625
00:36:28,166 --> 00:36:30,417
MARK: Five minutes later
626
00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:32,834
we were on our way up
the trail without him.
627
00:36:34,583 --> 00:36:38,750
♪ ♪
628
00:36:41,959 --> 00:36:43,875
RENAN: How you feeling? What's going on?
629
00:36:44,667 --> 00:36:47,083
MARK: I'm just trying to frickin' survive
630
00:36:47,166 --> 00:36:50,458
so that I can actually climb up
near the top of Everest
631
00:36:50,583 --> 00:36:53,375
and look for Sandy Irvine.
632
00:36:53,458 --> 00:36:55,375
And as we get deeper and deeper into this,
633
00:36:55,458 --> 00:37:00,458
I realize how absolutely insane
this whole project is.
634
00:37:01,834 --> 00:37:03,041
RENAN: You know,
that's the whole reason we're here
635
00:37:03,125 --> 00:37:04,875
is because of the mystery.
636
00:37:04,959 --> 00:37:09,375
If fate had dealt them a different hand
in that last attempt,
637
00:37:09,458 --> 00:37:11,250
maybe they would have lived.
638
00:37:12,458 --> 00:37:15,208
TOM:
The last photograph of Mallory and Irvine
639
00:37:15,291 --> 00:37:17,750
was taken at the North Col Camp.
640
00:37:17,834 --> 00:37:20,750
Irvine just standing there
sort of with a hurry up stance.
641
00:37:20,834 --> 00:37:23,166
He's got his two oxygen bottles.
642
00:37:23,250 --> 00:37:26,542
Mallory is fiddling around with some strap
or something like that.
643
00:37:26,625 --> 00:37:30,208
The apparatus was heavy,
35 pounds for three tanks.
644
00:37:30,291 --> 00:37:33,959
They would have had to take three if they
wanted to make the summit together.
645
00:37:34,041 --> 00:37:37,417
Mallory wrote in a note,
"It's a bloody load for climbing."
646
00:37:38,333 --> 00:37:40,375
But it makes a huge difference.
647
00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:42,917
It at least doubles your climbing speed.
648
00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:50,625
MARK: We're going up to the next camp.
649
00:37:52,208 --> 00:37:55,125
All serps packing up.
650
00:38:06,375 --> 00:38:09,250
This was the final push up the mountain.
651
00:38:10,500 --> 00:38:13,875
I think we all understood
that if we made a misstep,
652
00:38:13,959 --> 00:38:17,291
the entire endeavor
could just go off the rails.
653
00:38:21,250 --> 00:38:23,500
It was grueling.
654
00:38:24,875 --> 00:38:27,333
It's incredibly tedious,
655
00:38:27,417 --> 00:38:30,417
and the altitude is kicking your ass.
656
00:38:31,375 --> 00:38:35,333
Imagine what that must
have been like in 1924,
657
00:38:35,417 --> 00:38:37,542
back in the day when it wasn't festooned
658
00:38:37,625 --> 00:38:39,583
with fixed ropes like it is now.
659
00:38:40,458 --> 00:38:44,834
MARK: I can't believe those guys did this,
with no modern gear.
660
00:38:46,709 --> 00:38:48,875
TOM: It was really pathetic what they had.
661
00:38:48,959 --> 00:38:50,750
The tents were drafty.
662
00:38:50,834 --> 00:38:53,041
The sleeping bags were inadequate.
663
00:38:53,125 --> 00:38:56,125
The stoves were woefully weak.
664
00:38:56,208 --> 00:38:59,500
MARK: To be dressed the way that they were
in tweed and Burberry
665
00:38:59,583 --> 00:39:01,333
and all these layers of silk
666
00:39:01,417 --> 00:39:05,041
and with their bomber caps
and their little goggles.
667
00:39:05,125 --> 00:39:07,250
And their leather hobnail boots.
668
00:39:07,458 --> 00:39:11,834
And their 100-foot manila rope
that was that thick.
669
00:39:12,959 --> 00:39:14,542
It's mind-boggling.
670
00:39:16,250 --> 00:39:18,792
TOM: Professor George Havenith in England
671
00:39:18,875 --> 00:39:22,250
did a complete replica of the clothing
they wore and said,
672
00:39:22,333 --> 00:39:25,000
"The clothing they wore was enough
to keep them going
673
00:39:25,083 --> 00:39:26,542
when it was sunny and not too windy
674
00:39:26,625 --> 00:39:29,500
but if the weather got bad,
they could not survive."
675
00:39:29,583 --> 00:39:35,250
(wind buffeting)
676
00:39:39,417 --> 00:39:41,625
MARK: We start moving up from Camp 2.
677
00:39:41,709 --> 00:39:43,667
And it's windy enough
that it's not comfortable.
678
00:39:43,750 --> 00:39:45,083
You can't just, like, hang out.
679
00:39:45,166 --> 00:39:46,792
You get cold even with a down suit.
680
00:39:50,291 --> 00:39:52,875
♪ ♪
681
00:40:02,709 --> 00:40:03,917
MARK: A little scary.
682
00:40:04,375 --> 00:40:07,166
A snow storm above 8,000 meters.
683
00:40:09,875 --> 00:40:14,417
♪ ♪
684
00:40:23,417 --> 00:40:26,417
This is the spot where Odell
had his last sighting
685
00:40:26,500 --> 00:40:28,458
of Mallory and Irvine.
686
00:40:28,542 --> 00:40:30,917
And it's kind of fitting
that it's a snow squall,
687
00:40:32,417 --> 00:40:36,792
because there was squalling
688
00:40:36,875 --> 00:40:38,875
and then it lifted out
689
00:40:38,959 --> 00:40:41,166
and he turned the corner here...
690
00:40:41,250 --> 00:40:45,500
and had that famous sighting.
691
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,500
♪ ♪
692
00:40:53,291 --> 00:40:55,834
RENAN: Team member Noel Odell
693
00:40:55,917 --> 00:40:59,208
was the last person
to see Mallory and Irvine.
694
00:40:59,291 --> 00:41:02,250
He describes them high on the ridge,
695
00:41:02,333 --> 00:41:03,667
going for the summit.
696
00:41:03,750 --> 00:41:07,917
And then the mist came over
and engulfed them,
697
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,333
and they were never to be seen again.
698
00:41:13,750 --> 00:41:16,750
MARK:
Everybody's been disputing since 1924
699
00:41:16,834 --> 00:41:21,125
about Noel Odell's sighting
of the two climbers.
700
00:41:21,208 --> 00:41:25,709
He saw them surmounting a rock step.
701
00:41:25,792 --> 00:41:28,250
And the question is whether
it was the first step
702
00:41:28,333 --> 00:41:30,250
or the second step.
703
00:41:30,333 --> 00:41:33,041
And the idea is that
if they were that far along
704
00:41:33,125 --> 00:41:36,125
and that if Odell saw them
surmounting the second step,
705
00:41:36,208 --> 00:41:38,875
that they probably could have
made it to the summit.
706
00:41:38,959 --> 00:41:41,125
Because it's the crux of the whole route.
707
00:41:45,125 --> 00:41:49,750
♪ ♪
708
00:41:50,750 --> 00:41:53,709
MARK: You can sort
of see [second step] now.
709
00:41:56,417 --> 00:41:58,583
♪ ♪
710
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,917
If Odell says he saw them
over the second step,
711
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,542
I'm pretty sure nothing would
stop them going to the summit.
712
00:42:09,083 --> 00:42:14,041
♪ ♪
713
00:42:16,041 --> 00:42:18,375
MARK: We got to Camp 3.
714
00:42:18,458 --> 00:42:20,917
We got there at like, 5:00 or 6:00 p.m.
715
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,208
and we were told
we were gonna leave at 10:00
716
00:42:24,291 --> 00:42:25,959
and we were gonna go to the summit.
717
00:42:28,417 --> 00:42:31,375
RENAN: We have about
six hours of relaxing.
718
00:42:32,583 --> 00:42:34,792
How do you feel about
going to Holzel's spot?
719
00:42:36,125 --> 00:42:38,667
MARK:
I'm trying to recover so I can do so.
720
00:42:39,834 --> 00:42:42,792
To be honest,
I feel less confident than I did before.
721
00:42:46,125 --> 00:42:49,458
God, it's freakin' hard getting
up here. 8,300 meters.
722
00:42:53,041 --> 00:42:54,458
MARK: It's been, uh...
723
00:42:54,542 --> 00:42:56,041
(coughing)
724
00:42:56,583 --> 00:42:58,166
It hurt. It hurt.
725
00:42:59,041 --> 00:43:02,542
THOM: The Death Zone is correctly named.
726
00:43:02,625 --> 00:43:06,375
There's nothing dramatic
about it, it's just the truth.
727
00:43:06,458 --> 00:43:08,709
You can't eat enough,
you can't sleep enough,
728
00:43:08,792 --> 00:43:09,959
you can't drink enough.
729
00:43:10,041 --> 00:43:13,542
Your body is literally
wasting away up there.
730
00:43:13,917 --> 00:43:15,792
And if you fall asleep one too many times,
731
00:43:15,875 --> 00:43:17,792
you never wake up again.
732
00:43:20,250 --> 00:43:23,208
♪ ♪
733
00:43:33,375 --> 00:43:35,625
RENAN: It is 10:30.
734
00:43:37,333 --> 00:43:42,375
We just slept in some abandoned tents
up here in the Death Zone.
735
00:43:43,250 --> 00:43:45,208
Scrounged some random food.
736
00:43:47,417 --> 00:43:49,208
And against all odds
737
00:43:49,834 --> 00:43:53,542
we're launching
to try to solve this mystery.
738
00:43:56,041 --> 00:43:58,667
MARK: We were
working our way up to the summit
739
00:43:58,750 --> 00:44:04,000
and how are we gonna have
the energy to do this?
740
00:44:04,083 --> 00:44:06,959
I mean, we'll be lucky
if we even make it to the top.
741
00:44:07,041 --> 00:44:10,709
♪ ♪
742
00:44:10,792 --> 00:44:11,875
Oh.
743
00:44:11,959 --> 00:44:13,625
♪ ♪
744
00:44:13,709 --> 00:44:16,959
We get to the first step,
you know, it's pitch black.
745
00:44:17,041 --> 00:44:20,959
This is like a 60-foot-high
vertical cliff.
746
00:44:21,041 --> 00:44:24,667
I'm like, "Holy (bleep),
this is the first step?
747
00:44:24,834 --> 00:44:27,000
What the hell is the second step like?"
748
00:44:30,208 --> 00:44:34,709
RENAN:
I think we all underestimated how hard
749
00:44:34,792 --> 00:44:37,917
Everest and the climb was gonna be.
750
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,792
Eventually you get to the second step.
751
00:44:40,875 --> 00:44:43,458
You know, this is the most
famous part of the route.
752
00:44:45,500 --> 00:44:46,750
TOM: The big question has always been,
753
00:44:46,834 --> 00:44:48,542
"Could Mallory have even climbed it?"
754
00:44:48,625 --> 00:44:50,750
David Breashears estimates that Mallory
755
00:44:50,834 --> 00:44:55,000
had a 5.8 climbing ability
and it was a 5.9 climb.
756
00:44:56,667 --> 00:44:58,667
So that makes it right at the borderline
757
00:44:58,750 --> 00:45:01,250
of what Mallory could possibly have done.
758
00:45:01,333 --> 00:45:03,709
MARK:
I've been a climber for my whole life,
759
00:45:03,792 --> 00:45:06,125
so I wanted to make my own assessment.
760
00:45:06,583 --> 00:45:09,083
And I had this little fantasy
that maybe I would try
761
00:45:09,166 --> 00:45:13,834
to free climb the second step
to get my own sense of whether
762
00:45:13,917 --> 00:45:17,375
I think Mallory and Irvine
could have done it.
763
00:45:20,792 --> 00:45:22,834
Marking the second step.
764
00:45:22,917 --> 00:45:25,083
It does look doable,
but not doable enough
765
00:45:25,166 --> 00:45:27,375
that I wanted anything to do with it.
766
00:45:27,458 --> 00:45:30,208
And so, I hopped on the ladder.
767
00:45:31,458 --> 00:45:35,834
I think Mallory in particular,
being as skilled of a climber
768
00:45:35,917 --> 00:45:39,834
and as determined as he was,
I think he probably could have done it.
769
00:45:46,333 --> 00:45:49,291
RENAN:
I just see Mark climbing up the ladder
770
00:45:49,375 --> 00:45:51,083
and I had a little panic.
771
00:45:52,834 --> 00:45:55,709
The regulator on the top
of the oxygen bottle,
772
00:45:55,792 --> 00:45:59,083
which feeds the oxygen
down the hose, cracked.
773
00:45:59,917 --> 00:46:03,333
And there's dead bodies on either side.
774
00:46:03,500 --> 00:46:05,792
One of them from a couple weeks ago.
775
00:46:08,125 --> 00:46:09,834
RENAN: That's (bleep) spooky.
776
00:46:13,250 --> 00:46:14,875
This (bleep) is horrifying.
777
00:46:14,959 --> 00:46:16,709
MARK: (bleep) gnarly, huh?
778
00:46:16,792 --> 00:46:19,834
RENAN:
Yeah, I just lost almost half my oxygen.
779
00:46:20,333 --> 00:46:21,333
MARK: You did?
780
00:46:21,417 --> 00:46:22,291
RENAN: Yeah.
781
00:46:23,750 --> 00:46:25,208
MARK: You run out of oxygen,
782
00:46:25,291 --> 00:46:29,166
you become one of the dead guys
lining the side of the route.
783
00:46:29,834 --> 00:46:33,041
But one thing you realize quickly
when you're up there
784
00:46:33,125 --> 00:46:35,375
is that it's kind of every man
for himself.
785
00:46:35,917 --> 00:46:39,417
I mean, I was barely even alive myself,
786
00:46:39,500 --> 00:46:43,291
so I couldn't really do anything
for anybody else.
787
00:46:44,125 --> 00:46:46,667
♪ ♪
788
00:46:46,750 --> 00:46:50,250
RENAN: The severity
of the whole situation really hit home.
789
00:46:50,333 --> 00:46:54,709
And from that point on,
I had the hardest climb of my life.
790
00:46:56,458 --> 00:47:00,917
♪ ♪
791
00:47:02,458 --> 00:47:05,000
MARK: Mallory wrote to his wife Ruth
792
00:47:05,083 --> 00:47:09,125
that other members of the expedition
didn't have the guts
793
00:47:09,208 --> 00:47:11,834
to like really lay it on the line.
794
00:47:11,917 --> 00:47:14,875
And I think that
he had taken Irvine's measure
795
00:47:14,959 --> 00:47:19,375
and he knew that Irvine
would follow him no matter what.
796
00:47:20,125 --> 00:47:24,125
And that he had the heart
to just lay it all out,
797
00:47:24,208 --> 00:47:25,667
go right to the edge.
798
00:47:27,041 --> 00:47:30,875
(breathing heavily)
799
00:47:30,959 --> 00:47:32,166
RENAN: Third step.
800
00:47:32,250 --> 00:47:33,792
(breathing heavily)
801
00:47:36,959 --> 00:47:40,667
♪ ♪
802
00:47:46,917 --> 00:47:48,291
RENAN: How you feeling?
803
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:51,166
MARK: Hammered.
804
00:47:54,041 --> 00:47:55,375
Couldn't have picked a better day.
805
00:47:55,458 --> 00:47:57,542
(breathing heavily)
806
00:47:58,458 --> 00:47:59,625
Incredible.
807
00:48:00,792 --> 00:48:06,166
(breathing heavily)
808
00:48:08,792 --> 00:48:11,834
♪ ♪
809
00:48:11,917 --> 00:48:13,542
Woo!
810
00:48:15,041 --> 00:48:16,709
There's no one on the mountain,
except for us.
811
00:48:16,792 --> 00:48:19,333
We had the entire peak to ourself.
812
00:48:19,417 --> 00:48:22,750
And it was an absolutely perfect day.
813
00:48:24,792 --> 00:48:28,250
♪ ♪
814
00:48:33,291 --> 00:48:35,959
RENAN: That was something really special.
815
00:48:36,709 --> 00:48:40,709
To feel the power and the energy
of the tallest place on Earth.
816
00:48:40,834 --> 00:48:45,458
The same power that drew
Mallory and Irvine.
817
00:48:46,917 --> 00:48:49,542
MARK: After that last sighting by Odell,
818
00:48:49,625 --> 00:48:51,792
Mallory and Irvine were never seen again.
819
00:48:54,166 --> 00:48:57,250
Odell led a search party
up to their high camp.
820
00:48:57,583 --> 00:49:00,375
And after two days, they marked
a signal in the snow.
821
00:49:01,250 --> 00:49:04,250
It was a black cross
made out of sleeping bags.
822
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,542
Whether they made it to the top or not,
823
00:49:09,625 --> 00:49:12,000
they probably died on the way back down.
824
00:49:15,709 --> 00:49:16,917
RENAN:
We went for the summit.
825
00:49:18,417 --> 00:49:22,917
And now we're trying
to make it down safely.
826
00:49:23,542 --> 00:49:29,500
Yet to be determined
if we go searching for Irvine.
827
00:49:30,625 --> 00:49:32,583
Personally, I barely made it
828
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:39,625
and I just hope to have
a safe descent at this point.
829
00:49:44,917 --> 00:49:46,333
MARK: Yeah, let's get going.
830
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:49,834
(coughing)
831
00:49:51,959 --> 00:49:53,917
MARK:
We're on the summit of Mount Everest.
832
00:49:55,834 --> 00:49:58,000
(coughing)
833
00:49:58,083 --> 00:50:01,917
We're supposed to descend
and on the way down
834
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:05,291
go off the routes
and go out exploring, solo,
835
00:50:05,375 --> 00:50:06,792
across the yellow band.
836
00:50:11,583 --> 00:50:14,750
And I thought to myself,
"I'm gonna do this.
837
00:50:14,834 --> 00:50:16,959
I'm gonna find Holzel's spot.
838
00:50:17,041 --> 00:50:20,083
I'm gonna find Sandy Irvine,
I'm gonna find the camera."
839
00:50:21,417 --> 00:50:23,709
TOM: I've showed them where I think it is,
840
00:50:23,792 --> 00:50:26,583
and I hope they follow
that advice and find it.
841
00:50:26,667 --> 00:50:28,709
To me, it's been a science project,
842
00:50:28,792 --> 00:50:32,709
and the nice thing
about a science project is at the end,
843
00:50:32,792 --> 00:50:35,208
you prove your theory or you disprove it.
844
00:50:35,291 --> 00:50:38,291
But hey, they're the explorers, not me.
845
00:50:40,291 --> 00:50:43,208
MARK: We're getting closer
and I'm thinking, OK,
846
00:50:43,291 --> 00:50:45,041
when and if I find this spot,
847
00:50:45,125 --> 00:50:47,250
am I really gonna be able to do this?
848
00:50:49,417 --> 00:50:50,750
Oh, my God.
849
00:50:50,834 --> 00:50:53,041
I was smoked, more tired
than I'd ever been in my life.
850
00:50:55,583 --> 00:50:58,625
You have to be able to move
under your own power.
851
00:50:58,709 --> 00:51:01,542
And if you can't, that's it.
852
00:51:01,625 --> 00:51:02,959
Then you're gonna die.
853
00:51:03,041 --> 00:51:06,625
And as evidence of that,
you see dead bodies.
854
00:51:07,834 --> 00:51:11,125
RENAN: I can see
Mark's brain thinking,
855
00:51:11,583 --> 00:51:13,667
when we stopped at Mushroom Rock
856
00:51:13,750 --> 00:51:17,458
with our backs against a frozen body.
857
00:51:20,125 --> 00:51:21,458
MARK: I'm looking at the GPS
858
00:51:21,542 --> 00:51:24,709
and I'm trying to collate things
in my mind, like, where am I?
859
00:51:24,792 --> 00:51:26,125
I'm trying to get oriented.
860
00:51:26,208 --> 00:51:29,250
And one of the distinguishing
features, unfortunately,
861
00:51:29,375 --> 00:51:32,834
was a dead body of this Japanese climber
862
00:51:32,917 --> 00:51:36,542
that we had spotted
when we were looking at the drone footage.
863
00:51:36,625 --> 00:51:39,667
And then I looked down
and all of a sudden, I could see it.
864
00:51:40,333 --> 00:51:42,000
MARK: There's the Japanese [climber].
865
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:44,083
Yeah.
866
00:51:46,125 --> 00:51:48,291
There's Holzel's spot.
867
00:51:48,375 --> 00:51:51,291
♪ ♪
868
00:51:51,500 --> 00:51:52,583
Yeah, I wanna do it.
869
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:59,166
♪ ♪
870
00:51:59,458 --> 00:52:00,291
Where's the ax?
871
00:52:01,667 --> 00:52:02,500
RENAN: Here it is.
872
00:52:04,458 --> 00:52:05,458
RENAN: Be careful.
873
00:52:06,166 --> 00:52:07,667
MARK: And it was the moment of truth.
874
00:52:13,125 --> 00:52:14,667
SHERPA: No, no, no!
875
00:52:17,083 --> 00:52:18,834
It's in right there.
876
00:52:22,041 --> 00:52:23,583
SHERPA: No, no, no!
877
00:52:25,291 --> 00:52:27,125
Very dangerous.
878
00:52:27,250 --> 00:52:28,959
MARK:
I was off the rope and it was very clear
879
00:52:29,041 --> 00:52:31,709
that it was not something
that they had wanted me to do.
880
00:52:32,500 --> 00:52:33,834
SHERPA: Very dangerous.
881
00:52:35,875 --> 00:52:41,583
MARK: Just an absolute
emotional roller coaster.
882
00:52:41,959 --> 00:52:46,125
Determination, "I gotta do this,
I have so much into this."
883
00:52:46,208 --> 00:52:48,250
And then self-preservation.
884
00:52:48,333 --> 00:52:52,000
"Dude, you have four kids.
Like, this is not worth it.
885
00:52:52,083 --> 00:52:54,417
It's not worth risking your life."
886
00:52:55,542 --> 00:53:00,041
(breathing heavily)
887
00:53:06,458 --> 00:53:10,166
Finally I just said,
"(bleep) it, I'm going for it."
888
00:53:10,250 --> 00:53:11,917
SHERPA: No, no, no!
889
00:53:15,125 --> 00:53:17,166
RENAN: He cast off into the unknown.
890
00:53:17,917 --> 00:53:23,458
And neither Matt nor I had...
891
00:53:23,542 --> 00:53:26,083
had the wherewithal to follow him.
892
00:53:28,792 --> 00:53:34,125
♪ ♪
893
00:53:34,458 --> 00:53:35,583
SHERPA: Careful.
894
00:53:37,291 --> 00:53:39,083
RENAN: I was on the edge of my seat
895
00:53:39,166 --> 00:53:42,875
wondering what the answer
to the mystery is going to be.
896
00:53:42,959 --> 00:53:47,208
♪ ♪
897
00:53:51,458 --> 00:53:53,500
SHERPA: Very dangerous. Very dangerous.
898
00:53:57,041 --> 00:54:02,500
(radio chatter)
899
00:54:02,583 --> 00:54:05,458
MARK: As I started dropping elevation
and traversing on these ledges,
900
00:54:05,542 --> 00:54:07,667
I realized that I was very close
901
00:54:07,750 --> 00:54:09,834
to where Mallory might have fallen
902
00:54:09,917 --> 00:54:11,542
and where Irvine might have fallen.
903
00:54:14,166 --> 00:54:17,208
And there were spots where
if my crampons skated off,
904
00:54:17,500 --> 00:54:21,291
I would just fall into the abyss.
905
00:54:22,417 --> 00:54:27,834
♪ ♪
906
00:54:30,750 --> 00:54:35,041
As I was going,
I was looking into these slots
907
00:54:35,125 --> 00:54:37,333
because the two eyewitness accounts
908
00:54:37,417 --> 00:54:41,333
said that they saw the body
in a slot of rock.
909
00:54:47,959 --> 00:54:52,333
♪ ♪
910
00:55:01,250 --> 00:55:04,083
(radio chatter)
911
00:55:04,166 --> 00:55:06,542
MARK: As I came to the various slots,
912
00:55:09,125 --> 00:55:12,125
I was five foot above the drop
913
00:55:13,792 --> 00:55:15,333
where if I slipped and fell
914
00:55:15,417 --> 00:55:20,000
I would essentially suffer
the same fate as Mallory.
915
00:55:26,291 --> 00:55:31,917
♪ ♪
916
00:55:39,959 --> 00:55:41,458
I didn't see anything.
917
00:55:42,375 --> 00:55:47,750
(wind buffeting)
918
00:55:52,166 --> 00:55:53,667
And that was it.
919
00:56:03,250 --> 00:56:04,959
I went to Holzel's spot.
920
00:56:09,667 --> 00:56:11,542
There was nothing there.
921
00:56:12,333 --> 00:56:17,417
(breathing heavily)
922
00:56:20,291 --> 00:56:23,583
I went against the Sherpas,
which I feel really bad about.
923
00:56:23,667 --> 00:56:24,959
I almost didn't go.
924
00:56:26,166 --> 00:56:29,208
But I spent so much time
studying that spot,
925
00:56:29,291 --> 00:56:30,792
I just had to go there.
926
00:56:32,041 --> 00:56:34,166
Even after going to the summit,
I, seriously,
927
00:56:34,250 --> 00:56:36,834
this is the hardest day
that I've ever had in my life.
928
00:56:47,500 --> 00:56:49,542
I had to get boots on the ground
929
00:56:50,125 --> 00:56:53,709
to either prove or disprove
Holzel's theory.
930
00:56:53,834 --> 00:56:56,709
I think that's ultimately our...
931
00:56:56,792 --> 00:57:00,625
our contribution to this mystery.
932
00:57:04,625 --> 00:57:08,959
And I think that Irvine was there in 1960.
933
00:57:09,041 --> 00:57:13,583
I think it's corroborated
by Chhiring Dorje in 1995.
934
00:57:14,375 --> 00:57:17,583
And I think sometime between then and now
935
00:57:17,667 --> 00:57:20,875
Irvine and the camera
went to the bottom of the North Face.
936
00:57:22,208 --> 00:57:24,417
And I don't think there's a chance in hell
937
00:57:24,500 --> 00:57:25,875
of anyone ever finding it.
938
00:57:28,375 --> 00:57:32,709
Because I looked down there,
and I saw the size of the crevasses.
939
00:57:32,792 --> 00:57:35,500
And just the way that the sweep
of the avalanches
940
00:57:35,583 --> 00:57:38,458
would just flush things down
into the abyss.
941
00:57:44,083 --> 00:57:47,083
Never gonna... never gonna
find him down there.
942
00:57:47,959 --> 00:57:52,458
(breathing heavily)
943
00:57:52,542 --> 00:57:56,333
♪ ♪
944
00:57:56,417 --> 00:58:00,875
This was the most frantic, intense,
945
00:58:01,417 --> 00:58:05,583
dangerous thing
that I've ever done in my life.
946
00:58:08,625 --> 00:58:12,750
We gave it absolutely
everything that we had,
947
00:58:13,166 --> 00:58:17,291
and the mystery remains.
948
00:58:18,625 --> 00:58:24,458
♪ ♪
949
00:58:24,542 --> 00:58:28,125
THOM: People who don't really
know about this mountain
950
00:58:28,208 --> 00:58:31,083
are very quick to criticize it.
951
00:58:32,542 --> 00:58:37,375
What happens when people set
their focus on this mountain
952
00:58:37,458 --> 00:58:40,875
is that the people become
driven by ambition.
953
00:58:42,083 --> 00:58:45,083
And ambition is a really tricky thing
954
00:58:45,166 --> 00:58:50,166
because sometimes it will cause us
to cross over this line
955
00:58:50,250 --> 00:58:53,083
that can bring us
to the point of no return...
956
00:58:54,625 --> 00:58:56,291
which is exactly what happened
957
00:58:56,375 --> 00:58:59,125
to George Mallory and Sandy Irvine.
958
00:59:01,333 --> 00:59:05,625
MARK: We all have sort
of an imaginary fence that we draw
959
00:59:05,709 --> 00:59:08,583
as far as how much risk
we're willing to take.
960
00:59:08,667 --> 00:59:13,834
And I think, for a father of four,
961
00:59:13,917 --> 00:59:16,875
I stepped over onto the wrong
side of the fence on this trip.
962
00:59:19,417 --> 00:59:21,625
What I hope people will understand
963
00:59:21,709 --> 00:59:25,542
is that everybody that's here,
that's trying to climb Everest,
964
00:59:25,625 --> 00:59:29,875
they're embodying
the same spirit of Mallory and Irvine.
965
00:59:31,250 --> 00:59:34,959
RENAN: What they did is unimaginable.
966
00:59:35,041 --> 00:59:37,792
The sheer grit it took to climb that high
967
00:59:37,875 --> 00:59:40,250
and into the unknown at that point in time
968
00:59:40,333 --> 00:59:44,208
and the odds of them
making it to the summit
969
00:59:44,291 --> 00:59:48,041
and being the first to stand
on top of Chomolungma, Everest.
970
00:59:49,583 --> 00:59:50,917
I don't know, man.
971
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:56,333
That's the story
that keeps us coming back.
972
00:59:57,333 --> 01:00:00,583
(wind whistling)