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for all what they said.

All the words that came out

from my mouth was wrong.

I am sorry.

Yes.

Please. Please, no violence.

- No.

- He came to apologize.

I'm sorry.

Yes, yes.

Please, no violence. Listen.

He's very sorry.

No!

Inside, inside.

Hey!

Man #18:
It's not clear whether

the fight was something personal

or reflected

a greater discontent.

Please, no violence. Please!

It's about sherpas

no longer feeling

that they have to be subservient

or deferent to western climbers

and not playing out that role

of the faithful servant anymore.

Not being the kind of nice,

friendly, smiley person

in the background.

Just saying,

"actually, you know what?

We're as good as you."

Brice:
I'm a little afraid.

Where it's going

to lead in the future.

It's too hard.

The tension is too hard.

The worry is too hard.

And I'm getting too old

for that.

- Good morning.

- Good morning, mount Everest.

Hot towel.

Tea?

Ow.

Roughin' it on mount Everest.

Hot towels

and tea in the morning.

Ah.

Can I have a tea

with no sugar, please?

Douglas:
The reason Everest

takes eight weeks to climb.

Is that the body needs to slowly

acclimatize to the altitude.

Brice:
We do our acclimatization

on lobuche peak.

To stay out of the icefall,

to reduce the risk

for our clients.

Douglas:
And so when, you know,

Russell Brice.

Starts getting his clients

to camp on top of, you know,

a nearby peak rather than

going through the icefall

to acclimatize, you know,

that makes sense.

The fewer trips anyone

has to make through the icefall,

the better.

Meanwhile, the sherpas

are still stocking the camps

on Everest, making dozens

of trips up and down,

carrying all the oxygen,

the tents, the food, so on.

So that the mountain

is ready to be climbed

when the clients return.

Brice:
This year, my clients will

go through the icefall twice,

but I dare say

most of the sherpas

will go through

maybe 20 to 30 times.

And I'm not sure the clients

actually ever see that.

That was a nice day for a climb.

Brice:
I think a lot of people,

even on our trips,

don't really understand

all this work

is going on every night.

Loads of equipment going up

to support them on the mountain.

But now we have to start

the real job of why we're here,

and that's going up

through the mountain.

Safety is very, very important.

If you go through the icefall

without crampons,

if you go through the icefall

without clipping on,

I'm gonna sack you.

You're gonna go home.

Douglas:
It must seem crazy

going through the khumbu icefall.

In the dark,

but it's actually much safer

because it's more stable

in the cold of night.

Once the sun hits,

it becomes

increasingly dangerous.

Brice:
You have to remember.

That you have

a big responsibility

not only for your own safety

but for your family.

Even if it's a full moon,

you must have your headlamp.

The transceivers

must be turned on here,

and you must use

the transceiver every day

that you go through the icefall.

We know if a serac

falls on top of you

you're not going to survive,

but if you have a transceiver,

it means to find you

will take much less time.

And so that puts the people

doing the rescue

at much less risk.

Check, check.

Check, check.

There at least five out here

that are out of the danger zone,

and there's another four or five

i can see

that are still in the depths

of the icefall.

Man #19:
Update from icefall...

13 or 14 missing.

Not sure what team they're from.

Phil, are all your boys okay?

Phil, I can't hear you,

but are all your boys okay?

Just say yes or no.

Thumbs up. Okay. Thanks.

Man #21:
Get all the rescue rope

you can find.

Russ, where's that...

Brice:
A.C. And a.A.I.

Dawa sherpa, a.C. Sherpa,

and a.A.I. Sherpa.

No.

Mckinley:

I'm not aware of numbers,

but it's significant amounts.

It's in the teens.

Keep that with you.

Okay.

Definitely bring the long line

from kathmandu.

Cheers. Bye.

Put these steel shovels,

get them all together.

We want that sked.

Man #20:

If people are somewhat stable

we're gonna want to be bringing

them down

from the scene

if we can't fly them out.

For the beginning of the season.

- "A."

- Yeah.

How are you? Namaste, Dave.

- That's it?

- Yeah.

Goes up, gets some oxygen,

and you go second load.

One of my guys is very serious.

Mm-hmm.

So I think we're

to bring him down fast,

as soon as possible.

Because he's alive now.

Yeah, yeah. We'll try.

My doctor here waiting.

- Yeah.

- It's okay.

But we need sked.

We need all that.

We need the oxygen

up there first flight.

Yeah.

I think what we're trying to do

is you and I in the first load.

Yeah.

I'll try and secure the helipad.

- Yep.

- Get it crackin'.

You do flight stuff,

I'll just do medical stuff.

And you go down. Exactly.

- Guys.

- Yes, yes.

If you're gonna make me

in charge...

- Yeah, yeah.

- Please listen.

Okay. I understand

you're mountain guides.

I'm a mountain guide.

We've all got friends

missing and dead.

We know that, okay?

We can't get everything up

on the first load.

We want to send a doctor.

- Doctor. One Nepali guide.

- They're requesting a doctor.

Doctor and one Nepali guide,

okay?

Woman #2:
Who are these people?

Priority is being stabled

and Melissa on it.

Mckinley:

Yeah, I think we've explained.

That Russell's in charge

of the helipad down here,

which means Melissa

and I will be going first.

Man #21:
First victim is already

packaged, ready to go.

Man #22:
Patient condition.

Man #21:
He's fully conscious,

responsive.

Man #23:
But we are confused

about how many casualties

there are now.

We don't have a casualty

count now.

We're working on live bodies

at the moment.

Brice:
All sherpas not needed

now leave and come to base camp.

It's starting to get hot.

Mckinley:
Jason's gonna go in,

try and land in upper site,

pull that sherpa off,

bring him down to helipad.

Being switched to long line

going to your location.

Woman #2:
Jason has landed

at middle site. Over.

Man #21:
There's a sherpa with a

head injury and internal bleeding.

They're gonna keep him there,

package him for a long line.

Yeah, Michael just requested

as much rope as possible.

Mckinley:
There's a live patient

with a query several fracture.

Pulse looks good

call me from img, over.

Man #21:
Blood on the right...

Your right...

Arm bruising, upper left

chest pain descending with Eric.

Brice:
I need to confirm...

Do we have anymore injured

people to pick up or not?

Mckinley:
This is the last patient.

This is the last patient.

And then we can switch

to non-traumatic

body recovery flying down.

And we're gonna put an ecg

on them to check for rhythm.

Over.

Woman #2:
A verify... we are

absolutely in body recovery.

- Yes.

- Roger.

Mckinley:
Let's get this going.

This is by far the worst tragedy

that's ever happened on Everest.

13 people

have died this morning.

And there may be more still

that we don't know about.

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