Everest Page #3

Hang on.

Okay.

Say hi.

Hey, Dad!

- Hey, bud!

- Hi!

I miss you, buddy.

Oh! And Meg went on her

first date last weekend.

Well, you did!

Wow! Really?

Mmm-hmm.

Get off!

Peach?

I miss you, honey.

Mom? Mom?

I miss the kids.

A lot.

Peach?

Listen, I gotta get

the kids to school

so I gotta run.

Okay.

Yeah, go careful.

Bye-bye.

Is Dad okay?

Just, he never calls.

I think he's scared.

Here, come in, mate, come on!

- Come on.

- Come on, Beck.

You don't dance,

you don't climb!

Come on, guys, Beck Weathers!

No dance, no climb!

No dance, no climb!

Hey, man.

Breaking into the rations?

Yeah, you want some?

No. I'll wait

till we summit.

I don't know about that, Neal.

We'll get there.

I'm excited.

Anyway, me and Anatoli

are here to help you, you know?

There's too much

competition, Toli.

We don't need competition

between people.

There is competition between

every person and this mountain.

The last word always belongs

to the mountain.

- Ang Dorjee!

- Yeah?

Stay there, Beck, stay there.

Okay, I'm coming down!

Harold, Mike, this is Rob.

Mike here.

This isn't happening, guys.

Let's turn 'em around,

let's get 'em off the face and back

down to Base Camp. Turn around.

- Ang Dorjee, come on, we're going down.

- Okay.

My hand.

Okay, make a fist again.

Keep clenching,

just keep the blood flowing.

What's going on, man?

We're still waiting

for the South Africans.

Taiwanese took forever as well.

Hey, Ian.

You haven't paid for these ladders.

Yeah, yeah. Your Yak

Fund money's coming.

You serious, man?

Come on, get a move on.

How long you been waiting here?

Good 45 minutes.

Man, it's freezing.

- Yeah.

- It's stinging, huh?

Yeah. Right at the tips.

Hey, Rob, we gotta get 'em over.

We're working on it.

He's freezing, mate.

- Are you set?

- Clear.

- Sending him over, Mike!

- Yeah, all right.

Looking good, Beck.

Looking good.

That's it. No, head up,

mate, head up.

Steady yourself!

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

Little help?

Help! Help!

Mike, you good?

Are these ladders

gonna take two?

Yeah, I'll get a rope,

I'll belay you.

Just stay right

where you are, mate.

I can't pull myself up!

I'm gonna come out to you.

Okay.

You're good, Beck, you're okay.

Got it for you.

Right, tie me

in, Scott, tie me in.

Come and get me!

- On belay?

- Got it. On belay.

Let's go.

Right, I'm coming out to you, Beck.

Here I come, mate.

Nice and easy,

you're tied in, mate.

I can't feel my hands.

You're looking good.

Grab me.

Beck, Beck, Beck.

Grab me!

Stay right where you are, mate.

I'm right here,

I'm coming to you.

I can't pull myself up!

I got ya.

You okay?

There's no guarantee

to the summit, I get it.

But to get killed

because I'm waiting in line

like I'm in freaking Walmart.

That's not why I

paid you 65,000 dollars.

Now get me off of here.

That's it.

Plant your feet one at a time.

All right, thanks for coming by.

Uh...

Look, Base Camp's, you know,

chockablock full this year, so,

I think it would

all benefit us greatly

by coming together like this

and, you know,

working out some kind of plan and schedule.

What, like some kind of rota?

Yes.

On Everest?

Everyone knows

Everest is a business

for you, Robert,

are you kidding?

What gives you

the right to tell us

when we can climb

and when we can't?

I'm not telling you, mate.

I'm asking.

If we know when everybody's

planning to summit, for instance,

you know, we can avoid the chaos

that happened in

the Icefall today.

Adventure Consultants

are aiming for May 10.

So are we, man!

Us too.

May 10.

Okay, that's bumper-to-bumper

traffic on the Hillary Step.

Yes, it is, that's my point.

Look, this is ridiculous.

We're summiting when we want.

All right?

And I don't need your permission

to climb the mountain.

Ian, have you seen how many

people are here at Base Camp?

We're finished here.

Come on, guys. Ian! Hey, man.

Oh, Rob!

- Ah! Come in, man!

- Hi.

Have a drink, Rob!

Come on, man.

Na zdorovie.

Na zdorovie!

Can we have a word?

Yeah.

You feeling a little crook, huh?

No, it's just a little...

Little touch of the Delhi belly.

He means Buddha belly.

Maybe Sandy's caviar.

I told you not to have

the Dom Perignon with it!

What's going on, Roberto?

I don't like the look

of the crowds on the ropes.

I think we're gonna

have some trouble

once we get above Camp Three.

I mean, you wanna top

it on the 10th, yeah?

Yeah.

So do I.

What, are you saying

we should team up?

Well, it's an idea, yeah.

Oh, man.

I don't know, man.

We have different styles, man.

All due respect, you're a hand-holder.

I mean, the best, but...

I just believe that if you

can't get up there yourself

you shouldn't be on

the mountain at all.

You guide your team,

I guide mine.

I'm just suggesting that we work

with each other

instead of against.

The only way we both summit,

mate, is if we work together.

Particularly fixing the ropes.

It's gotta make sense.

Whoo-ie! Why not?

Yeah?

Yeah, I see the sense in it.

Good man.

That was all.

All right.

Who's gonna lead when we get up there?

Rob. If I say I will

do it, it will be done.

Whoa! Whoa!

Whoa! Whoa!

You gotta work with Ang Dorjee,

because we're

working together now.

I'm just saying,

if both of us...

Whoa! Whoa!

Whoa! Whoa!

Okay?

Ang Dorjee.

We're all professionals here.

We'll work together and

we'll get the job done. Yes?

All right.

Yeah.

We're planning on stashing,

what, eight bottles of O

up at the South Summit.

- Well, I'm not using O.

- What do you mean?

You're not using oxygen at all?

Come on, man.

You know you want to.

English air.

Don't need it.

Yeah, but Anatoli,

you're guiding for Scott this year.

You have people's lives in your hands.

It's a job.

Never used it.

Never will.

Bigger problems if you run out.

Okay.

I'll put some more

bottles of O up there.

All right, that'll be good.

All right.

Just so long as

you guys are clear.

If you work for me,

you use oxygen,

otherwise you don't work for me.

You don't have to ask, mate.

I've been up there

before without O's, Rob.

I don't need to

do it with clients.

All right, next

we have to fix ropes.

Yeah.

Particularly above the Lhotse Face.

Hillary Step need

new fixed rope.

And South-East Ridge

as well.

Yes, it does.

Well...

My idea is that we work together

and we fix ropes together.

We share the duties.

- Okay?

- Sounds good.

All right,

you and Lopsang maybe get together.

Talk about who wants

to fix what and where, okay?

Only essentials. I'm not

gonna tell you what to pack,

but be brutal. Okay?

One pound down here

is like 10 up there.

Light and fast.

What, and just like that,

you kill my summit cappuccino.

Go, go, go! Run!

- That camera's totally dying.

- Okay.

All right, it's gonna

be a tough week.

But it is gonna be the

best Friday of your lives.

Yeah, what are we

doing again on Friday?

Summiting!

- Now it's up to me, right?

- Yes, it is, yes, it is.

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