Into Thin Air: Death on Everest Page #3

to ''Outside'' magazine.

We all want a piece

of the Everest business.

We all want to be famous, right?

So Sandy's my ticket...

and you're Rob's.

- Eliza.

- No.

What aboutJane?

Just nice, simpleJane.

Think about that one

for a little while.

It's still nine weeks

till you're going to have the baby.

It's too much likeJan.

Easy to remember.

- I wish I was with you.

- Yeah, so do I.

- You be careful.

- As always, darling.

- I love you.

- You too.

Man.

What's in that pack?

She's got a satellite dish,

computers.

I don't know what she's got.

That's crazy.

The weight will kill him.

I learned that the Sherpas believe

that when you climb Everest...

you're climbing into

the house of God.

I knew that Fischer...

and Hall had

a slightly different view.

Success this year

was important for business.

It would bring more and more

paying clients in the years to come.

But in the end...

it is Everest

who decides who climbs...

and who does not.

Yasuko!

Boyfriend?

Husband.

Husband.

Yasuko climb.

He cook...

uh, clean clothes.

Your husband takes care of the house

while you climb.

Yes, yes.

He's my wife.

You're very lucky.

My wife never saw it that way.

Excuse?

Climbing...

cost me my marriage.

The mountain?

It's ruining my life.

If we'd been paying attention,

there were signs...

that Everest was not pleased

with what was happening on her flanks.

But already the fever had diminished

our ability to heed the warnings.

We were in the Khumbu Ice Fall...

where crevasses suddenly opened wide

and swallowed their victims...

and where more climbers had died

than anywhere else on Everest.

Wait until I've anchored the line

and I'm ready.

Ready.

Hey! Hey!

Whoa!

- Free the rope!

- Yasuko, you were supposed to wait!

Beidleman, I've got her!

I told her to wait

until the rope was anchored.

It's all right. You're okay.

- Where the hell you been?

- Sleeping.

- You slept in?

- It happens, Scott.

Not when you're working for me,

when you're supposed to be guiding.

- Scott--

- Don't "Scott" me.

You're a screwup and a pain in the ass!

I'm paying you to work.

You understand "work"

or is that word nonexistent in Russia?

I told you, I'm not from Russia.

I'm from Kazakhstan.

You're from nowhere, Anatoli, and you're

never going to work for me again.

You don't mean that.

It's the altitude.

I don't believe this.

- What?

- Look. Sandy Pittman has a visitor.

Ang Dorje, something wrong?

Jon, is Sandy married to that man?

I don't think so.

From what I hear,

she's going through a divorce.

It's not proper.

What?

For man and a woman

to be together on this mountain...

when they're not married.

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