Everest

Can you just listen up?

Guys?

We got 2,000 feet,

600 vertical meters

to Camp Four.

It's roped all the way,

so I know you can make it.

Once we get to the yellow band,

we're gonna regroup,

put on the masks,

turn on the gas.

Make sense?

325 dollars a bottle.

For oxygen?

That's daylight robbery!

Yeah, well, he's cornered the market,

he's got it.

He reckons there's gonna be 20

teams at Base Camp this season.

Twenty teams?

I mean, with all

the Sherpas and porters,

it's gonna be

a squeeze up there.

Well, that's a scrum on

the ropes, right there.

What is this?

It's Helen's.

It's a little decoration

for the mess tent.

You can wear them in your hair.

I'll have that.

Thank you.

Okay, I got some news.

We got Krakauer.

You stole him

from Scott Fischer?

No, he made up his own mind.

Good job, Rob!

How much is he paying you, Rob?

Well, he's only

paying for his airfare

but we get 5,000

words in the magazine

and our picture on

the front cover. Huh?

That makes it all worthwhile.

Right there.

Well, if you get him to the top.

If?

If? How can you

say that to me?

There you go.

You all right?

Thanks, Guy.

Cheers, mate.

Hey!

Hello!

You all right?

Oh, yeah, how are you?

Me? I'm good.

Oh, look at you!

I know, I'm big.

Here you go.

You good?

Yeah, you know,

I'm just gonna miss you.

Come on.

- Let's go, Guy.

- Mmm-hmm.

Just go careful, all right?

It's...

Please, my love.

Come on.

Please don't worry.

It's just the doing

nothing back here

that's making me worry.

You're not doing nothing.

No, but...

What?

It's the waiting for you.

For him.

Her.

Her.

Her.

Just be back for

the birth, Rob Hall.

You try and stop me.

This is a final call

for Air New Zealand

Flight 7419 to Kathmandu.

Okay, I love you.

Go, or I'll cry.

Go.

Yeah.

That all you got?

Yeah, that's it.

I think we're over here.

Hey, what outfit you guys with?

Uh, Adventure Consultants.

Ah, good. Me too.

Ah.

I'm Beck.

Beck Weathers.

Doug Hansen.

Jon Krakauer.

How you doing?

Good.

Are you, uh...

Krakauer from Outside magazine?

Yep.

Really?

What are you doing?

Writing or climbing or what?

Little bit of both.

Hmm.

Well, I'll let you know

how the summit goes, okay?

No need.

I'll be there.

Ah, we'll see.

What do you do when

you're not climbing, Doug?

What, for work?

Yeah.

Uh, different things.

Carpenter, mailman.

Carpenter, mailman?

Yep.

Seriously, you deliver the mail?

Yeah, I deliver the mail.

Mailman on Everest?

Hope so.

I like that.

Mailman on Everest.

There we go.

- Beck.

- Yeah?

You know he made it to the South

Summit on Everest last year?

Who, Doug did?

Yeah.

That's pretty

high for a mailman.

Yep. Longs Peak, McKinley.

I never made it up to

the top of McKinley myself.

I know.

Well, how do you know that?

'89, right?

Oh!

You've done your research.

That's what we do.

You, my friends, are following

in some very famous footsteps.

A history made

famous by George Everest,

George Mallory, Tenzing Norgay,

Edmund Hillary.

And Rob Hall!

Legends all of them!

That's right.

For those of you who

dare face their dreams,

Adventure Consultants

offers something

beyond the power of

words to describe.

And why don't we describe it

in the brochure?

Because it's mostly just pain.

- Yes.

- Ain't that the truth?

And the odd,

if you don't mind, Mike,

and the odd missing toe.

There we go.

To put it simply,

guys, human beings

simply aren't built to function

at the cruising

altitude of a 747.

Okay, once we get above here,

above the South Col

our bodies will be

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