Into Thin Air: Death on Everest Page #5

Save the strongest.

That is the law of the mountains.

Yeah.

Despite their exhaustion,

Groom and Beidleman left Camp Four...

to make one last attempt

to rescue Rob Hall.

Rob!

Rob! It's Mike Groom

and Neal Beidleman.

We're just above Camp Four.

Rob here.

Listen. We'll try

and get to you, mate, but...

it's looking pretty bad.

We'll never reach you

in this storm.

It's all right, Mike.

It's all right.

We've got to get back!

We've got to go! Come on!

Let's go!

Please! Breathe!

Please!

He has very little pulse.

Very slow.

What do we do?

We can save the Taiwanese climber.

What about Scott?

Can't the two Sherpas get him down?

We can't carry Scott.

We can only save one.

If we try and save both...

we might all die.

Oh, God.

It is what Scott

would tell us to do.

You know he would.

Damn it!

Scott! You get up!

Get up!

I know you can do it!

Come on! Get up!

Come on!

Please! Get up!

I know you can! Please!

This isn't happening.

This isn't happening.

It isn't happening.

A name.

We have to think of a name.

Yes.

Yes, my darling.

This is Rob here.

Can you patch me through to my wife?

Do you have the oxygen?

The oxygen.

Just patch me through toJan.

I need to talk to her...

before it's too late.

Rob, listen.

Don't give up.

You're Rob Hall.

Not for much longer, mate.

Just patch me through.

His wife is on the line.

You're patched through.

Jan.

Can you hear me?

Rob?

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

Yes. Yes, my darling.

Rob,you have to move.

You have to.

Please.

Please, Rob.

Get up and move.

Can you?

Can you, my darling?

There's something wrong

with my legs.

I can't move them.

Concentrate.

Rub your legs.

Get the blood moving.

Name.

We have to pick a name.

Sarah.

What?

What about Sarah?

Yes.

Yes, it's beautiful.

Then it's settled.

Sarah Hall.

Good.

I'm glad now, darling.

I'm looking forward to making you

completely better when you come home.

I just know

you're going to be rescued.

Don't feel that you're alone.

I love you.

Sleep well, my sweetheart.

Please.

Try--

Try not to worry too much, eh?

I love you, Rob.

I love you.

I love you.

Rob?

Coming to Everest had been

the worst mistake of my life.

The enormity of the tragedy--

the awful finality of it--

was beginning to sink in.

There was no way to fix this.

This wasn't some game

that we could play over again.

Beidleman, you made it.

We couldn't get to Rob.

He was too high up.

What about the others?

I brought...

Madsen, Fox...

and Pittman.

What about Beck?

What about Yasuko?

I couldn't help her, Neal.

I'm sorry.

Oh, my God.

We thought you were dead.

My God, it's a miracle.

- Get up.

- Easy! Watch his hands!

All right, mate.

We've got you.

Get him inside.

Come on, Beck.

Goodbye, old friend.

Five of our friends are dead.

Hard to believe.

It's even harder to understand.

Why? What did they die for?

It's a question

that gets asked a lot in climbing.

Perhaps we didn't treat

this mountain...

with the respect it deserves.

We believe that

with enough money...

with enough equipment,

with enough determination...

we could conquer Chomolungma.

So now we mourn our friends...

Yasuko Namba...

Andy Harris...

Doug Hansen...

Scott Fischer...

and Rob Hall.

They saw God's face.

I hope--

Oh, how I hope...

that it was beautiful.

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