Third Man on the Mountain Page #3

There he'll learn there's another world

beyond the mountains,

forget this stubborn dream

of being a guide.

It's like a disease. A curse.

As if that wicked mountain wanted him, too.

Stop thinking like that, llse.

It'll all work out.

Let me handle him.

I guess I'm late.

It was very busy at the hotel... today.

There were a lot of dishes.

Yes. I saw them.

I also listened to a lot of lies.

Enough for one day.

I don't want to hear any more.

After giving your word, Rudi. Why?

I don't know.

- You don't know?

- I mean I didn't plan it that way.

But from the kitchen,

I could see the sun on the mountains.

The sun on the mountains, but not

the future you can have with Herr Hempel.

- He's so interested in you.

- But I didn't ask him to be interested in me.

No, it was handed to you

on a silver platter.

And not because of you,

but because of who you are.

Your father brought tourists to Kurtal,

climbers from all over the world.

- To him Herr Hempel owes his hotel.

- Don't you see, Rudi?

You have a chance to go farther

than any boy in the village.

Some day you might even be the proprietor

of the Monte D'Oro Hotel.

Can't you see how much better your life

will be than climbing on rocks and ice?

- No.

- Look at me, Rudi.

For 20 years I've been a guide.

One of the best.

Where's it got me?

I haven't saved enough money

to buy a dozen cows.

And look what being a guide

did for Old Teo.

Crippled. Touched in the head.

No matter what you say, he's still

climbed higher than any man in Kurtal.

- He's the only man alive who...

- Rudi.

That's right. Stop and think for a moment

of somebody else.

You could make up to your mother

for a little of what she's suffered.

- Where are you going, Rudi?

- Back to the hotel to finish the dishes.

Captain Winter!

My apologies, Franz.

I looked for you in the village.

Apologies, Captain?

It's an honor for me and my sister.

The honor is mine

to meet the widow of Josef Matt.

- And this is her son, Rudi.

- Hello.

Won't you be seated, Captain?

I just wanted to see if you'd be

available for a climb in the morning.

Of course.

That is, if you don't mean...

No, not the Citadel. I was thinking of

the Wunderhorn. I hear it's a good climb.

- That's true, and it's a fine view.

- It's the view that interests me.

We'd leave about noon, spend the night

at the hut and go up the next morning.

That would mean food and blankets

and probably a porter.

By all means a porter.

What about Rudi here?

The boy works elsewhere,

but I'll find a good man.

Please, Uncle. Just this once?

- Have you forgotten already?

- But this is different.

- To go with Captain Winter.

- Enough!

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