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[ominous rumbling]

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[boom]

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- [wind howling]
- [tent rattling violently]

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[silence]

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- [radio bleeps]
- [wind howling]

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[man]

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- [radio crackles]
- [silence]

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[man 2]

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[man]

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[radio bleeps]

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[man 3, breathlessly]

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[wind roaring]

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[ominous echo]

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[producer, in Icelandic] Camera B.

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Damn, you're good at this!

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[producer] Now you have the chance

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to become the first person
in the world to go up there, in winter.

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To go to the top of K2.

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When you're going on a trip like this,
do you think much about death?

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[in Icelandic]
When I go on a trip like this,

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then naturally death is very close.

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And…

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you just hope to be able to stand,

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how would you say it… upright.

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And even just proud during that moment.

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Hello?

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- I'm not dead yet! [laughs]
- [producer responds]

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But should I check your pulse?

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- [laughs heartily]
- [producer responds indistinctly]

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[Lina] I know
there are risks in this sport.

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But as much as he loves
to do something with the family

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and be in the norm, he needs to… uh…

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go and live on the edge.

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- [laughter]
- [indistinct conversation]

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[Lina] We have quite a big family

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with six children.

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[indistinct conversation]

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[Lina] But at home,
it's like his mind is, like, spinning.

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Sometimes it's like…

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when people do great things,

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it comes at the cost of the family
who are standing by him.

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But mountaineers get hooked
on the thrill of summiting.

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[child laughs]

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[John, in Icelandic]
One of the first mountains I climbed

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was Mont Blanc, in 2011.

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I remember I stood at the top. Uh…

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I was just waiting
for some feeling to come.

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But I felt nothing.

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[indistinct announcement
over loud speaker]

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[John] It was only when I was descending
and I posted five pictures on Facebook,

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that's when it came.

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[tense music playing]

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[Angela Benavides]
I'm a sport journalist.

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I report on mountaineering expeditions.

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The time of pioneers,
the time of adventures is gone.

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[notification bleeps]

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These days, thousands of people
flock to the Himalayas every season.

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- [notification bleeps]
- Posting their stories on Instagram.

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[notification bleeps]

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Especially Everest. It's completely crazy.

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[in Icelandic] So, this is where we sleep
tonight apparently.

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[Angela] But K2 in Pakistan was different.

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It's such a dangerous mountain.

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[mouse clicks]

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So, John Snorri announcing his intention
to summit K2 in winter,

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that really was a story.

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[in Icelandic] You have a lot
of time to think, hiking all day,

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enjoying the beauty.

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It's indescribable. [exhales]

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[Angela] There are 14 peaks
around the world

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above 8,000 meters.

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Thirteen of them
had been climbed in winter,

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except for one:

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K2.

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The Savage Mountain.

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[Elia Saikaly] K2 had been on my radar
for a very long time.

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You know, my job is to sniff out stories.

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But I still never felt
like I was quite ready for K2.

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You know, one in four die who summit.

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That was the old statistic.

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And, you know, K2 is hard enough
in the summertime.

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Completely deadly in wintertime.

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[wind whistling]

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[Elia] For decades,
particularly the Polish and the Russians

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have been attempting
to climb K2 in winter.

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There were multiple attempts
and none of them were successful.

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[climber grunts]

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This is the holy grail
for high altitude mountaineers.

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There are no more historic records.

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K2 winter was the last first.

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[distant rumbling]

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[wind whistling]

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[in Icelandic] Okay, I'll do a lap
if the GoPro works. [strains]

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[grunts] Okay.

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Okay.

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We are the only ones up here,

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the only seven people camping on K2.

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Here are our supply stations. [straining]

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Our stock station.

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Lots of supplies and stuff like that,
we're very well stocked.

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We can be stuck here
for three whole months

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without needing anyone.

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[exclaims]

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This is actually our second day.

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The first day, crazy weather came
and the mess tent blew away. [sighs]

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Mohsin, our chef

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and one other person,

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they were in the kitchen

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when the kitchen just simply blew away.

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[Mohsin, in English]
Look, look, look! Avalanche!

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[John, in English]
Do you think it'll reach?

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[rumbling, clattering]

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[echoing] And here is another one! Look!

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[man] My God!

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[John grunts]

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[wind howling]

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[Elia] Most people are under an illusion
that there's safety at base camp.

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Because you got manpower

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that's preparing the tents,
the food, the water.

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But the reality is, it's freezing.

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Like, some days, it's minus 50.

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Right, and in the thin air,
your body is slowly shutting down.

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So everybody there is on borrowed time.

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["Naughty Boy" by Nahid Akhtar plays]

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[woman vocalizing]

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[Angela] John Snorri had hired
two climbing companions.

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Ali Muhammad Sadpara from Pakistan

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and Ali's son, Sajid.

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[camera shutter clicks]

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[song continues]

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♪ Naughty boy, naughty boy ♪

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[Lina] When you are alone in the mountain,
you get, like, vulnerable.

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♪ Ho you come here ♪

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♪ Naughty boy… ♪

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But with Ali and Sajid,

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when they start to climb together,
everybody got so close.

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[Ali] John, what are you thinking
about wind here?

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[John] The wind is too strong.

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- I went out here to pee…
- Yeah.

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…before my pee hit the ground,
it was frozen.

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Yes.

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So, the situation is like that.

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- Yeah.
- So, we have to wait and see.

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- Yeah.
- All right.

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- [sing-song] A, B, C.
- [sing-song] A, B, C.

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[John, shouting] Can you give me a towel?

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- [song continues]
- [shower water splashing]

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[Lina] I think Ali
was a little bit like John.

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A jolly guy, you know? [laughs]

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[John, laughing] Whoa!

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[Lina] They had a good time together.

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[laughter]

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Hey, this is our shower. The best shower.

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[Sajid, in Urdu] In our culture,
kids are afraid of their father,

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afraid of their scolding.

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[in English] Wow, very nice.

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[Sajid, in Urdu]
But my father was like a friend.

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[song continues]

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He began to be seen as a national hero,

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but even after his world class
achievements,

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he remained humble and simple.

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[song continues]

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My father and John Snorri
were of the same age and thought alike.

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They were like friends.

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♪ Ho you come here… ♪

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[Lina] John was so happy
about this friendship.

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I think it was something
that he didn't expect.

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♪ Ho you ♪

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[John giggles]

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♪ Come here… ♪

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Exercise. Yes.

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♪ Naughty boy ♪

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Loving this exercise.

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[song fades]

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[shovel scraping]

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[wind whistling]

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[sniffles]

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[in Icelandic, muffled] We've arrived,
we'll stay for the night,

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then go down to base camp.

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[sniffles]

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[sighs]

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It was a rough trek, getting up here.

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- [camera bleeps]
- The trio!

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The main guy.

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Ah.

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[Lina] They were alone on the mountain

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and…

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everything was good.

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[in Icelandic] If the next two days
are good, we plan to go up to camp two,

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spend the night in camp two
and see if we can do some of the lines

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on the way up to camp three.

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And spend the night back in base camp.

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[Lina] But then the other team came.

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[Ali, in Urdu] Nimsdai, here?

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[bass guitar riff
from "Screen Shot" by Swans plays]

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[Sajid, in Urdu] We had no idea
that Nims was about to arrive

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with a Nepali Sherpa team.

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Sherpas are a strong team.
Nims brought a perfect team.

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[Ali speaking Urdu]

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Nimsdai was a Himalayan rock star.

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[news anchor] …here, in the studio,

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explorer Nirmal Purja,
better known as Nims--

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[reporter]
Nims, just arriving in Kathmandu

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after setting a world record
many didn't think possible.

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[reporter 2]
Nobody believed that this could be done.

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[Angela] He had a military career
within the United Kingdom

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and he was a British citizen.

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And then had the vision
to do something big

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and then came the idea
of breaking the speed record

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to summit all the 14 eight-thousanders.

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[Nims] So the fastest time
was seven years

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and then I said,
"I will do that in seven months."

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- That's insane, man.
- Yeah.

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[Angela] He had used
very untraditional methods.

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Like the use of helicopters

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that can take you
from one base camp to another.

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And climbing,
not just with one sherpa supporting you,

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but a whole team working for you.

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So, when Nimsdai joined
the winter K2 game,

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he was there to win it

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in a 100-percent Nepalese team.

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[song continues]

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Nowadays, nearly everybody has their own,
personal camera operator on an expedition.

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[John, in English] Hi, nice to meet you.

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[man] You too.

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[Angela] And, of course, so had Nims.

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[song fades]

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[Sandro Gromen-Hayes] The first time
I saw John and Ali,

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I took these photos of them.

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[camera shutter clicks]

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John Snorri was probably kind of bummed.

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He'd arrived, I don't know,
a month before we had.

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So he'd been shivering his tits off
long before we even set foot in Pakistan.

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And suddenly, there were quite a lot
of people on the mountain.

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I mean, Nims doesn't have many fans
in the mountaineering world anyway

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and especially when he rocks up
to try and do what you're doing…

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[laughing] I think some people
kind of wished he wasn't there.

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[John, in English] Who're they?

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- [Ali] Nims' Sherpas.
- [John] Ah ha.

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Wow! It's like a…

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It's like a big city.

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[Ali] There's Nimsdai!

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[John] Who? Where? This guy?

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[Ali] This guy? Here?

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[multiple voices chattering]

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[Sandro] Ali and Nims had known each other
and spent time in the mountains before.

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Nepal and Pakistan have a lot in common.

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They're both very poor countries
for the most part.

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Pakistan is not quite developed as Nepal.

252
00:16:46,006 --> 00:16:51,011
So the mountaineering industry there
is definitely a little bit behind.

253
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[speaking Urdu]

254
00:16:52,054 --> 00:16:53,847
[in Urdu] How many are there with you?

255
00:16:53,931 --> 00:16:57,267
[in Urdu] One, John,
and he is absolutely fine.

256
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- He is a very nice person.
- [Nims assents]

257
00:17:00,062 --> 00:17:02,689
- [Sandro] How's it going, Ali?
- [in English] Yeah, everything is good.

258
00:17:02,773 --> 00:17:06,401
Now we are-- 24, 25 days we are here.

259
00:17:06,484 --> 00:17:07,569
- [Sandro] Whoa!
- In base camp, yeah.

260
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Inshallah, our plan is go…

261
00:17:09,905 --> 00:17:12,991
If wind is little bit going down,
we go tomorrow.

262
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Camp one. Day after, camp two…
then we will see.

263
00:17:16,578 --> 00:17:18,454
They'll be fixing camp two up.

264
00:17:18,539 --> 00:17:19,915
[laughs] Yeah.

265
00:17:19,998 --> 00:17:22,166
[Nims, in Urdu] We are planning
to go to camp two tomorrow.

266
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- [in Urdu] Seriously?
- It's no problem at all. [laughs]

267
00:17:25,253 --> 00:17:27,339
[continues in Urdu]

268
00:17:27,422 --> 00:17:29,466
You need a little bit of rest, no?

269
00:17:29,550 --> 00:17:33,011
[Nims] Nimsdai's team rests when we die.

270
00:17:33,095 --> 00:17:35,430
- [laughs, speaks Urdu]
- [Nims laughs]

271
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One should be a bit careful
in the winter…

272
00:17:39,434 --> 00:17:40,561
[camera shutter clicks]

273
00:17:40,644 --> 00:17:44,606
[Sandro] After a very rapid
four-day trekking to base camp,

274
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I felt like that was…

275
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maybe where I should chill for a few days

276
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and let my white, skinny ass
catch up with the Sherpa.

277
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But this was the last opportunity

278
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to get a first winter ascent
on an eight-thousander

279
00:17:58,579 --> 00:18:01,248
and Nims wanted to be the first to summit.

280
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As did many others.

281
00:18:03,959 --> 00:18:08,338
[man] We're here trekking
to K2 base camp in the Karakoram.

282
00:18:09,590 --> 00:18:10,924
The whole mountaineering scene

283
00:18:11,008 --> 00:18:14,386
was kind of getting really itchy feet
through COVID.

284
00:18:15,846 --> 00:18:17,347
[in Spanish] Practically no one here.

285
00:18:17,431 --> 00:18:21,059
[Sandro] And then suddenly the first
big expedition to be open to Westerners

286
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was K2 winter.

287
00:18:23,395 --> 00:18:24,229
[mouse clicks]

288
00:18:26,315 --> 00:18:29,902
That's right. A few tents back there,
that's K2 base camp. We did it.

289
00:18:29,985 --> 00:18:31,278
Woohoo!

290
00:18:31,361 --> 00:18:33,030
It's been a great journey.

291
00:18:33,530 --> 00:18:36,742
First leg, done.
We're at K2 base camp.

292
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Potentially my home
for the next couple months.

293
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I was coming off the back
of two very historic world firsts.

294
00:18:41,955 --> 00:18:45,918
In my solo crossing of Antarctica
and my row across the Drake Passage.

295
00:18:46,001 --> 00:18:48,629
Welcome to the show, Colin.
It's so good to see you.

296
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This is a guy
who walked across Antarctica.

297
00:18:51,381 --> 00:18:52,966
- How many days did it take you?
- 54 days.

298
00:18:53,050 --> 00:18:54,384
- By yourself?
- By myself.

299
00:18:54,468 --> 00:18:55,344
Thank you very much.

300
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[Colin] And so I was already kind of,
a little bit on the lookout

301
00:18:57,763 --> 00:18:59,431
for, like, other world firsts

302
00:18:59,515 --> 00:19:02,100
or other, sort of, pioneering expeditions
that I could take on.

303
00:19:02,184 --> 00:19:03,769
I appreciate you guys having me.

304
00:19:03,852 --> 00:19:05,395
I feel I have more energy now, just--

305
00:19:05,479 --> 00:19:06,855
- Let's go!
- Being around you.

306
00:19:07,523 --> 00:19:10,234
[Colin] First ascents in mountaineering
are a big deal.

307
00:19:11,735 --> 00:19:13,612
I wasn't alive in the early 1950s

308
00:19:13,695 --> 00:19:16,281
when Mount Everest and K2
were summited for the first time.

309
00:19:16,365 --> 00:19:20,202
It was just kinda like, "I missed it.
I guess I wasn't born in the right era."

310
00:19:20,953 --> 00:19:23,080
So I was like, "How can I leave my mark?

311
00:19:23,163 --> 00:19:26,124
Where can I do something first
or original?"

312
00:19:27,417 --> 00:19:30,754
National Geographic was like,
"Whoever climbs K2 in the winter

313
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will claim the last great prize
in mountaineering."

314
00:19:33,757 --> 00:19:36,510
Um, you know,
those are big words, obviously.

315
00:19:36,593 --> 00:19:37,928
[mouse clicks]

316
00:19:40,138 --> 00:19:43,392
Hands down, K2 is the most dangerous
mountain in the world to climb.

317
00:19:46,645 --> 00:19:49,231
There's a bunch of vertical faces
dropping off, you know,

318
00:19:49,314 --> 00:19:50,899
thousands and thousands of feet.

319
00:19:51,567 --> 00:19:53,360
So you can't make a single mistake.

320
00:19:54,152 --> 00:19:58,073
It's like, you fall and you fall
directly down the entire route.

321
00:19:59,449 --> 00:20:02,661
It's hard enough in summer, but in winter,
it's the toughest season.

322
00:20:02,744 --> 00:20:04,788
It's the coldest, it's the darkest…

323
00:20:04,872 --> 00:20:06,874
Um, it's just a brutal situation.

324
00:20:06,957 --> 00:20:08,959
[panting]

325
00:20:09,334 --> 00:20:14,506
And then I had just thought, intuitively,
winter, there's just gonna be deeper snow

326
00:20:14,590 --> 00:20:16,091
and potential for more avalanches.

327
00:20:16,175 --> 00:20:17,384
[camera bleeps]

328
00:20:17,467 --> 00:20:19,636
We did see some avalanches over there.

329
00:20:21,471 --> 00:20:22,931
But actually, in winter,

330
00:20:23,015 --> 00:20:25,350
the winds are so high
on the upper part of the mountain,

331
00:20:26,018 --> 00:20:27,978
it basically just gets wind-scoured.

332
00:20:29,188 --> 00:20:32,691
And the winds were so violent
that they were just dislodging rocks.

333
00:20:32,774 --> 00:20:34,651
- [rock thuds]
- [climber] Rock!

334
00:20:34,735 --> 00:20:36,820
[Colin] So thirty or forty times per day,

335
00:20:36,904 --> 00:20:39,364
you've got anything
from the size of a pebble like this

336
00:20:39,448 --> 00:20:43,493
to, you know, massive rocks this size
flying down the mountain right at you.

337
00:20:44,077 --> 00:20:46,496
[rock clatters and thuds]

338
00:20:50,709 --> 00:20:54,004
[Tamara Lunger] K2 was
the last unclimbed peak in the winter,

339
00:20:54,087 --> 00:20:57,132
so I knew this is my last chance.

340
00:20:57,216 --> 00:21:02,554
I was so close on Nanga Parbat in 2016
and now it's only K2 left.

341
00:21:02,971 --> 00:21:05,307
[in German, breathlessly]
I've been waiting for the sunrise,

342
00:21:05,390 --> 00:21:08,769
counting the minutes until the sun comes.

343
00:21:09,394 --> 00:21:10,229
[moans]

344
00:21:10,312 --> 00:21:14,316
[Tamara, in English] Up there, in winter,
I never felt so alone.

345
00:21:14,900 --> 00:21:17,486
[gasping]

346
00:21:17,569 --> 00:21:22,115
[Tamara] Even if you're in a team,
you cannot look after somebody else.

347
00:21:24,034 --> 00:21:29,206
Everybody goes for his or her own life.

348
00:21:30,457 --> 00:21:32,459
[heavy breathing]

349
00:21:34,711 --> 00:21:41,093
The crazy thing was, on K2,
I thought there will be very few people.

350
00:21:41,510 --> 00:21:44,805
And then I arrive there,
"Oh, my! Holy shit!

351
00:21:45,848 --> 00:21:47,558
Where am I going right now?"

352
00:21:47,641 --> 00:21:50,811
Because it seems to me a big expedition.

353
00:21:50,894 --> 00:21:53,605
[indistinct shouting and chatter]

354
00:21:53,689 --> 00:21:55,524
[Colin] What had happened was

355
00:21:55,607 --> 00:21:58,110
a company called Seven Summit Treks
had realized

356
00:21:58,193 --> 00:21:59,945
a lot of people
are interested in this project

357
00:22:00,028 --> 00:22:01,864
and so they were like,
"We should put together,

358
00:22:01,947 --> 00:22:04,074
essentially, a commercial expedition."

359
00:22:04,491 --> 00:22:06,326
And so, everyone that goes over there

360
00:22:06,410 --> 00:22:09,204
ends up paying
for a Seven Summit Treks permit.

361
00:22:11,331 --> 00:22:13,834
- [indistinct conversation]
- [Tamara] I met Sergi and JP.

362
00:22:13,917 --> 00:22:16,670
They were such strong mountaineers.

363
00:22:17,421 --> 00:22:19,423
And I felt immediately connected.

364
00:22:20,465 --> 00:22:23,719
[sing-song] I don't want to pitch a tent.

365
00:22:23,802 --> 00:22:27,681
[Tamara] Especially to JP,
because he seemed so beautiful to me.

366
00:22:27,764 --> 00:22:29,057
Woohoo.

367
00:22:29,141 --> 00:22:32,644
But K2 winter is really something…

368
00:22:33,562 --> 00:22:35,439
fucking hard, you know?

369
00:22:35,981 --> 00:22:39,276
Um, and I think that some of the people
in the base camp

370
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:41,945
were not aware about this fact.

371
00:22:42,321 --> 00:22:45,657
[Colin] Quite the party going on here.
That's for sure.

372
00:22:46,366 --> 00:22:50,245
[scattered chatter]

373
00:22:50,746 --> 00:22:53,790
[Arnold Coster] So half the group
were experienced climbers.

374
00:22:54,958 --> 00:22:57,878
Uh, the other half were novices.

375
00:22:58,587 --> 00:23:01,048
I think those people
had no idea what they got into.

376
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,260
- [climber] Like Christmas!
- Winter expedition. K2 winter expedition.

377
00:23:05,677 --> 00:23:09,932
The company made a decision to go to K2
because it was COVID time.

378
00:23:10,015 --> 00:23:12,392
We couldn't do anything else, basically.

379
00:23:12,476 --> 00:23:14,478
All of a sudden Pakistan was open.

380
00:23:15,771 --> 00:23:20,067
So going to K2 was a chance
for the business to survive.

381
00:23:20,150 --> 00:23:22,152
[rhythmic instrumental music playing]

382
00:23:26,448 --> 00:23:32,037
I saw on Facebook
that Seven Summits agency from Nepal,

383
00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:35,040
they're doing K2 winter expedition.

384
00:23:36,959 --> 00:23:40,379
I wrote to them, "What's the price?"

385
00:23:40,462 --> 00:23:44,883
They immediately wrote,
"Oh, we are starting doing your visa now."

386
00:23:45,425 --> 00:23:47,928
[in Polish] Seven and a half hours.

387
00:23:48,011 --> 00:23:52,140
[laughs] I didn't expect it
to be that much.

388
00:23:52,224 --> 00:23:54,017
[speaks Polish, laughs]

389
00:23:54,101 --> 00:23:56,019
[Arnold] To be honest,
it would have been better

390
00:23:56,103 --> 00:24:00,649
if there's only 10 people on the mountain,
instead of, like, 60 people in total.

391
00:24:00,732 --> 00:24:02,985
That's kind of crazy for K2 winter.

392
00:24:03,193 --> 00:24:04,194
[camera bleeps]

393
00:24:04,278 --> 00:24:08,156
But the fun part about my job
is that people come from everywhere.

394
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:09,700
All different backgrounds.

395
00:24:10,534 --> 00:24:12,077
- [Arnold] Can be a housewife…
- [man] Hello!

396
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,997
[Arnold] …can be an athlete,
can be a business owner.

397
00:24:15,163 --> 00:24:15,998
[camera bleeps]

398
00:24:16,456 --> 00:24:18,292
[pulsing music playing]

399
00:24:18,709 --> 00:24:21,378
[Bernhard Lippert, in German]
I get around a lot,

400
00:24:21,461 --> 00:24:25,340
and I try to travel
around the world as much as possible.

401
00:24:27,342 --> 00:24:31,555
For me, it's important
to experience adventures

402
00:24:31,638 --> 00:24:33,974
so that life isn't boring.

403
00:24:34,057 --> 00:24:36,310
Just lying around at a hotel
or on the beach

404
00:24:36,393 --> 00:24:37,853
would be far too dull for me.

405
00:24:39,188 --> 00:24:45,360
I noticed
they were planning to attempt K2,

406
00:24:45,444 --> 00:24:47,654
and we arranged everything from there.

407
00:24:49,907 --> 00:24:50,908
[mouse clicks]

408
00:24:50,991 --> 00:24:55,245
- [dance music plays through speaker]
- [laughter]

409
00:24:55,329 --> 00:24:57,873
[Elia] I was literally sitting
at home in my pajamas

410
00:24:57,956 --> 00:25:02,794
and I'm watching all these people
on social media, show up in Pakistan.

411
00:25:03,754 --> 00:25:06,590
Right, it's a commercialized endeavor
at this point.

412
00:25:06,673 --> 00:25:08,091
[climber cheering]

413
00:25:08,175 --> 00:25:10,385
[Elia] This was
a fuck-up by Seven Summits,

414
00:25:10,886 --> 00:25:12,888
which Arnold was a part of.

415
00:25:13,972 --> 00:25:15,682
Because if you commercialize K2,

416
00:25:15,766 --> 00:25:17,976
the way you've commercialized
Mount Everest,

417
00:25:18,060 --> 00:25:19,728
bad things are going to happen.

418
00:25:20,103 --> 00:25:22,898
And that's in the summertime.
Let alone the winter.

419
00:25:22,981 --> 00:25:24,024
[dance music plays]

420
00:25:24,107 --> 00:25:27,152
[JP] This is how
we're doing the expedition.

421
00:25:29,363 --> 00:25:33,825
[music and laughter continue faintly]

422
00:25:49,591 --> 00:25:50,592
Ah.

423
00:25:53,303 --> 00:25:54,638
[in Icelandic] Let's see how it goes.

424
00:25:54,721 --> 00:25:59,059
We have the tent here
on the edge as usual.

425
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:03,397
Here are our 700-meter lines
that we carried up here.

426
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,190
[boots crunching in snow]

427
00:26:05,607 --> 00:26:07,609
[Lina] John was disappointed.

428
00:26:08,694 --> 00:26:11,864
It's, like, a really difficult expedition.

429
00:26:11,947 --> 00:26:15,492
So, he had hoped he would be alone.

430
00:26:17,452 --> 00:26:19,913
But with all the other climbers…

431
00:26:21,999 --> 00:26:24,710
the expedition was totally different.

432
00:26:26,837 --> 00:26:28,630
Now it was a competition.

433
00:26:29,298 --> 00:26:30,215
And…

434
00:26:31,633 --> 00:26:35,637
he wanted to conquer it as much as them.

435
00:26:37,055 --> 00:26:39,558
[John, in Icelandic] Nims and co,
they are going to come up soon.

436
00:26:39,641 --> 00:26:41,852
Then they have to camp somewhere.

437
00:26:42,311 --> 00:26:45,689
Finding space for tents
will be very difficult.

438
00:26:45,772 --> 00:26:49,276
Then there comes a group of 50 people
from Seven Summit.

439
00:26:50,360 --> 00:26:53,655
It should be possible
to put one tent there,

440
00:26:53,739 --> 00:26:57,868
and I know you can put one there,
so two people can sleep there.

441
00:26:59,161 --> 00:27:00,954
This will be something. [sniffles]

442
00:27:03,916 --> 00:27:05,918
[tents rattling in the wind]

443
00:27:06,668 --> 00:27:07,961
[Lina, over phone] Hi.

444
00:27:08,795 --> 00:27:10,547
[John, in Icelandic] Hi, sweetie.
What's up?

445
00:27:10,631 --> 00:27:12,508
[Lina, in Icelandic] All good, and you?

446
00:27:12,925 --> 00:27:14,551
[John] Everything's okay.

447
00:27:14,927 --> 00:27:16,011
[Lina] Yeah?

448
00:27:16,970 --> 00:27:18,263
What's up?

449
00:27:18,347 --> 00:27:20,724
[John] There are so many people
up in the camps.

450
00:27:20,807 --> 00:27:21,642
[Lina] Yes.

451
00:27:21,725 --> 00:27:24,394
[John] There are so many people here.

452
00:27:25,812 --> 00:27:28,690
[Lina, on recording]
I know all of this is really tough

453
00:27:28,774 --> 00:27:31,360
but you have to try to be strong somehow.

454
00:27:32,361 --> 00:27:34,988
Just be smart in this competition.

455
00:27:35,489 --> 00:27:39,660
[John] Yes, I know. I have to be smart.

456
00:27:39,743 --> 00:27:42,204
[Lina] Okay, sweetie. I love you.

457
00:27:42,704 --> 00:27:44,331
[John] I love you too, sweetie.

458
00:27:44,414 --> 00:27:45,249
[Lina] Okay, good night.

459
00:27:45,332 --> 00:27:46,834
- [John] Speak tomorrow.
- Yes.

460
00:27:46,917 --> 00:27:49,211
[John] Bye.

461
00:28:00,889 --> 00:28:03,642
[Colin] Traditionally on the route,
there are five camps above base camp.

462
00:28:04,685 --> 00:28:06,144
[Colin, in video]
Camp one's roughly there.

463
00:28:06,228 --> 00:28:08,605
Camp two, up into there.

464
00:28:08,689 --> 00:28:10,899
Camp three, back in there.

465
00:28:10,983 --> 00:28:13,694
Then, backside of that,
Bottleneck to the summit.

466
00:28:14,862 --> 00:28:16,113
[Colin] And that is very common.

467
00:28:16,196 --> 00:28:19,116
You see the same thing on most
of the fourteen 8,000-meter peaks.

468
00:28:19,533 --> 00:28:22,911
Because most of these mountains
can't be climbed in a single push.

469
00:28:23,412 --> 00:28:24,371
[Colin] Climbing up!

470
00:28:24,454 --> 00:28:26,331
[Colin] You actually need to climb
up and down the mountain a few times.

471
00:28:26,415 --> 00:28:28,709
You need to climb up
to camp one, camp two, camp three,

472
00:28:29,668 --> 00:28:33,046
stock your camps with gear and supplies
as well as get acclimatized.

473
00:28:33,130 --> 00:28:34,840
So, get your body used to the thin air.

474
00:28:35,549 --> 00:28:37,718
And then you just go back to base camp.

475
00:28:38,302 --> 00:28:40,053
[man, in Polish] How's it going?

476
00:28:40,554 --> 00:28:42,472
[in Polish] Hot…

477
00:28:42,556 --> 00:28:44,308
hard… [chuckles]

478
00:28:45,684 --> 00:28:47,477
and I feel alive! [chuckles]

479
00:28:50,272 --> 00:28:53,525
[Colin] One of the main things
was how is the rope gonna be fixed

480
00:28:53,609 --> 00:28:54,943
to the top of that mountain?

481
00:28:57,237 --> 00:28:58,739
When we first got to base camp,

482
00:28:58,822 --> 00:29:01,158
John Snorri and Ali
had already been up on the mountain,

483
00:29:01,241 --> 00:29:03,493
and they had already fixed
some ropes up there,

484
00:29:04,661 --> 00:29:09,333
but actually no one had put ropes
above camp two.

485
00:29:09,917 --> 00:29:11,210
[exhales vocally]

486
00:29:11,293 --> 00:29:12,711
[Colin] And it became very clear

487
00:29:12,794 --> 00:29:15,297
this was such a dangerous mountain
to climb…

488
00:29:17,633 --> 00:29:20,010
that everyone was there
to try to get the first ascent,

489
00:29:20,093 --> 00:29:22,346
everyone was racing to be first,

490
00:29:24,181 --> 00:29:27,184
and everyone realized, actually,
the best case scenario for safety,

491
00:29:27,267 --> 00:29:28,977
as well as potential success,

492
00:29:29,061 --> 00:29:31,563
was for us to kind of all collude
and do this together.

493
00:29:32,856 --> 00:29:34,858
It was kind of like the United Nations.

494
00:29:34,942 --> 00:29:38,237
And our plan was to just all, you know,
climb this mountain as one.

495
00:29:42,908 --> 00:29:45,994
[Angela] I mean, you should speak
to the Sherpas about that.

496
00:29:47,538 --> 00:29:48,455
[camera bleeps]

497
00:29:48,539 --> 00:29:49,414
[producer] Why?

498
00:29:49,998 --> 00:29:54,503
[Angela] Because no one
wants to be the bad guy, right?

499
00:29:56,129 --> 00:29:58,757
But the competition was there.

500
00:30:03,095 --> 00:30:06,557
[Gelje Sherpa, in Nepali] It was
a competition, like a football match.

501
00:30:08,141 --> 00:30:12,688
Until now,
there has been no Nepalese record

502
00:30:12,771 --> 00:30:17,401
in winter mountain climbing.

503
00:30:18,151 --> 00:30:22,698
So if, in the winter K2 trip,
the Nepalese got there first,

504
00:30:23,323 --> 00:30:27,744
we could have the chance
to raise our flag.

505
00:30:27,828 --> 00:30:32,457
So that was very important
for us Nepalese.

506
00:30:32,958 --> 00:30:35,544
- [in English] Guys, this is, I think…
- [man coughs]

507
00:30:36,587 --> 00:30:39,256
…25-year-old Chivas.

508
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,342
'Cause today is New Year's Eve,
we need to celebrate.

509
00:30:45,679 --> 00:30:49,099
[Gelje, in Nepali] That night it was
New Year's Eve for the Westerners.

510
00:30:49,516 --> 00:30:52,895
[upbeat traditional music plays]

511
00:30:52,978 --> 00:30:55,314
[all laughing]

512
00:30:57,983 --> 00:31:00,652
[Gelje] But the Nepalese team had started
speaking and planning privately.

513
00:31:01,737 --> 00:31:04,573
[in Nepali] If it's a foreigner,
I'd rather fucking die

514
00:31:04,656 --> 00:31:09,077
but I won't let them get ahead.
I'm being straight with you.

515
00:31:09,161 --> 00:31:11,121
- [team laughs]
- [Nims speaking Nepali]

516
00:31:11,205 --> 00:31:15,501
[Angela] That night was
the beginning of a change of strategy.

517
00:31:15,584 --> 00:31:18,962
Which became much more nationalistic.

518
00:31:19,505 --> 00:31:21,381
[Nims speaking Nepali]

519
00:31:21,465 --> 00:31:22,508
[Angela] What I didn't know

520
00:31:22,591 --> 00:31:26,845
was that the expedition co-leader
of the Seven Summit Trek team was there.

521
00:31:28,472 --> 00:31:31,225
[Arnold] I work for a company
owned by Sherpas.

522
00:31:32,893 --> 00:31:37,731
Sherpas were really walking around
barefooted at nothing, like 20 years ago.

523
00:31:38,065 --> 00:31:41,735
And they saw tourists,
and they knew it was smart

524
00:31:41,818 --> 00:31:45,155
to become a climber, and they all
worked their way up from a porter.

525
00:31:45,531 --> 00:31:47,866
I think Nepalese should take this summit.

526
00:31:47,950 --> 00:31:48,951
[man] Yeah.

527
00:31:49,034 --> 00:31:50,077
Don't wait too long.

528
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:54,873
Because if you wait one more week,
then our team, there are strong climbers,

529
00:31:54,957 --> 00:31:58,126
and they're gonna take it.
You guys should take it.

530
00:31:58,210 --> 00:32:00,754
- The Nepalese should take this summit.
- [man laughs]

531
00:32:00,838 --> 00:32:02,047
[Arnold] So the Western climbers,

532
00:32:02,130 --> 00:32:04,675
might have been told all the Sherpas
were there for them.

533
00:32:04,758 --> 00:32:05,968
You know, to help them.

534
00:32:07,886 --> 00:32:13,141
But it would actually have been sad,
if a guy who just paid money

535
00:32:13,225 --> 00:32:15,185
got to the top first.

536
00:32:15,769 --> 00:32:19,189
That's also my opinion,
even though I was leading those people.

537
00:32:20,524 --> 00:32:24,736
[in Nepali] All I want is a record
for Nepal. More than anything.

538
00:32:24,820 --> 00:32:27,865
[in Nepali] Rest assured
it will be Nepal on top.

539
00:32:27,948 --> 00:32:31,159
Until we fix the ropes ahead,
the foreigners can't go.

540
00:32:31,243 --> 00:32:34,872
[man, in Nepali] I hope none of them get
there first. I hope it's only Nepalese.

541
00:32:34,955 --> 00:32:38,542
[Nims, in Nepali] So, brother,
we are on the same page.

542
00:32:38,625 --> 00:32:42,171
Here in the mountains,
our brothers have worked so hard,

543
00:32:42,254 --> 00:32:45,674
but when people talk about a winter ascent
you hear a fucking white person's name.

544
00:32:45,757 --> 00:32:47,259
[Nims, in English] Happy New Year.

545
00:32:47,342 --> 00:32:48,594
[all] Happy New Year.

546
00:32:48,677 --> 00:32:50,721
[all speaking Nepali]

547
00:32:52,556 --> 00:32:54,308
[Gelje, in Nepali] My first job

548
00:32:54,391 --> 00:32:57,436
was to collect yak dung
to make briquettes for fuel.

549
00:32:57,895 --> 00:32:59,897
[faint music, whooping]

550
00:33:06,653 --> 00:33:10,782
So the difference
between my story and theirs

551
00:33:10,866 --> 00:33:14,328
is that of hardship.

552
00:33:14,411 --> 00:33:17,039
I had a different life.

553
00:33:17,414 --> 00:33:21,835
So it was never our plan
to summit together.

554
00:33:21,919 --> 00:33:25,339
- [indistinct shouting]
- [applause]

555
00:33:33,347 --> 00:33:37,976
[wind roaring]

556
00:33:43,398 --> 00:33:49,321
A few days later, they had a meeting,
the Nepalese and John and Ali,

557
00:33:49,404 --> 00:33:53,367
where they discussed the summit plan.

558
00:33:54,034 --> 00:33:56,870
So John called me
and told me about this meeting.

559
00:33:56,954 --> 00:34:02,793
[Lina, in Icelandic] So, is it just you
with the Nepalis and Pakistanis?

560
00:34:03,293 --> 00:34:04,127
[John] Yes.

561
00:34:04,211 --> 00:34:05,295
[Lina] No other foreigner?

562
00:34:05,379 --> 00:34:08,257
[John] No one else, no.

563
00:34:09,049 --> 00:34:11,051
[Lina, in English]
It was like a negotiation.

564
00:34:12,427 --> 00:34:18,725
John and Ali had already
brought 700-meter rope up

565
00:34:19,768 --> 00:34:25,148
and it was agreed on that the Nepalese
would take it and use it.

566
00:34:26,065 --> 00:34:31,612
So in return they would go all together
to achieve the summit.

567
00:34:31,697 --> 00:34:34,658
[upbeat Shina song plays on speaker]

568
00:34:35,617 --> 00:34:37,995
[John, in Icelandic]
We are working together.

569
00:34:39,371 --> 00:34:42,123
That is a huge step forward

570
00:34:42,206 --> 00:34:46,420
and in the next window,
we can try to reach the summit.

571
00:34:46,503 --> 00:34:47,920
[Lina, in Icelandic] Yes.

572
00:34:48,005 --> 00:34:50,799
[song continues]

573
00:34:52,092 --> 00:34:54,887
[Ali sings along]

574
00:34:56,972 --> 00:34:58,515
[all cheer]

575
00:35:01,518 --> 00:35:03,520
[indistinct chatter]

576
00:35:06,398 --> 00:35:10,944
[in Nepali] Honestly,
this project is for our country.

577
00:35:11,987 --> 00:35:16,074
There are also foreigners here,
so I won't share everything.

578
00:35:16,158 --> 00:35:17,284
But let me be clear.

579
00:35:17,367 --> 00:35:20,829
If there are any foreigners behind us,
I will pull up the ropes.

580
00:35:20,913 --> 00:35:23,957
You can blame it on me.

581
00:35:24,041 --> 00:35:29,421
Remember
that we're all Nepalese mountaineers.

582
00:35:29,505 --> 00:35:32,216
On this occasion,
it'll be for our country, okay?

583
00:35:34,593 --> 00:35:36,595
So, that is it.

584
00:35:37,429 --> 00:35:39,056
[in English] And we're done.
Thank you, brother.

585
00:35:43,227 --> 00:35:47,356
[Lina, in English] So the weather window
they agreed on with the Sherpas

586
00:35:47,439 --> 00:35:49,983
was around the 16th.

587
00:35:50,067 --> 00:35:51,693
- [Ali, in English] Sunny there, John?
- Yeah.

588
00:35:51,777 --> 00:35:53,487
A-hay! Lemon juice.

589
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:03,872
[Lina] So, in the morning,
they were waiting for the call from Nims

590
00:36:03,956 --> 00:36:05,582
to summit together.

591
00:36:05,666 --> 00:36:09,586
John Snorri, five star hotel!

592
00:36:09,670 --> 00:36:11,088
[Colin] On the radios in base camp

593
00:36:11,171 --> 00:36:13,215
everyone's like,
"Well, where are the Nepalese?"

594
00:36:13,298 --> 00:36:14,508
And at first they were like,

595
00:36:14,591 --> 00:36:17,386
"Oh, yeah, we're just bringing gear
up there. You know, we'll see.

596
00:36:17,469 --> 00:36:20,097
Tomorrow looks like
it's gonna be bad weather."

597
00:36:20,180 --> 00:36:23,350
Just kind of this friendly,
you know, camaraderie.

598
00:36:25,394 --> 00:36:27,020
[Sajid, in English]
Camp 2 for base camp, over.

599
00:36:27,104 --> 00:36:32,442
[Colin] But later on we noticed that Nims
and the Nepalese had gone quiet.

600
00:36:32,526 --> 00:36:34,319
Complete radio silence.

601
00:36:34,403 --> 00:36:36,405
- Camp 2, over.
- [John coughs]

602
00:36:37,531 --> 00:36:39,157
Camp 2, over.

603
00:36:39,241 --> 00:36:41,743
In the past, they had been pretty open,
talking on those channels.

604
00:36:41,827 --> 00:36:45,622
Then all of a sudden, they kind of
disappeared from those channels.

605
00:36:45,706 --> 00:36:47,666
So it was kind of this question mark of,

606
00:36:48,417 --> 00:36:50,085
"Are those guys going for it?"

607
00:36:50,794 --> 00:36:52,796
Camp 2, base camp, base camp.

608
00:36:53,505 --> 00:36:55,507
[tense music playing]

609
00:37:02,639 --> 00:37:05,142
[Sajid, in Urdu] My father said,

610
00:37:05,225 --> 00:37:11,857
"I have known them for years.

611
00:37:11,940 --> 00:37:15,277
We have done many missions
and summits together.

612
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,488
If they have a plan,
they will definitely share it with us."

613
00:37:26,830 --> 00:37:32,085
But then we realized
that they planned the summit secretly.

614
00:37:38,133 --> 00:37:40,969
[Lina] The Nepalese
had started the summit,

615
00:37:41,845 --> 00:37:44,598
but it was too late for John.

616
00:37:44,681 --> 00:37:46,892
They already missed that window.

617
00:37:56,235 --> 00:37:59,112
John just couldn't believe
it was happening.

618
00:37:59,863 --> 00:38:01,406
He was angry,

619
00:38:02,616 --> 00:38:06,119
because he thought they had an agreement.

620
00:38:06,203 --> 00:38:07,329
Wow.

621
00:38:07,412 --> 00:38:09,540
[in English] No wind, huh?

622
00:38:15,087 --> 00:38:16,505
[Lina] It was over.

623
00:38:18,048 --> 00:38:23,470
The Nepalese wanted to take
the summit for their nation.

624
00:38:23,554 --> 00:38:26,890
It was clearly the plan.

625
00:38:31,061 --> 00:38:32,229
[John clears throat]

626
00:38:32,729 --> 00:38:37,943
[in Urdu] I could see the disappointment
on their faces.

627
00:38:39,862 --> 00:38:44,283
They were quite shocked.

628
00:38:48,161 --> 00:38:50,163
[wind blustering]

629
00:38:51,874 --> 00:38:55,586
[Colin] Later that night,
the Nepalese started coming down.

630
00:38:59,131 --> 00:39:02,926
[Tamara] I felt really sorry
for Ali and for John,

631
00:39:03,010 --> 00:39:10,017
because they fixed the ropes
and so they expected

632
00:39:10,100 --> 00:39:16,732
to be part of this summit push,
and, uh, they were just excluded.

633
00:39:16,815 --> 00:39:17,983
[man] Congrats.

634
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,739
[Colin] Many of those guys are, you know,
some of the best climbers in the world.

635
00:39:23,822 --> 00:39:25,657
And they have a genetic disposition

636
00:39:25,741 --> 00:39:29,369
because they've, you know, for generations
and generations lived at high altitude,

637
00:39:29,453 --> 00:39:32,414
to be really strong in the Himalayas,
which is incredible.

638
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:34,791
[climber coughs]

639
00:39:34,875 --> 00:39:38,420
[Colin] But Ali and John
had been, kind of, left behind.

640
00:39:39,588 --> 00:39:41,423
And of course there was
a part of me that was like,

641
00:39:41,507 --> 00:39:44,510
"It would've been awesome if
we could've all been up there together."

642
00:39:46,261 --> 00:39:49,556
[in Nepali] There were many Westerners
who were happy for us

643
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:51,725
when we returned from summiting.

644
00:39:52,309 --> 00:39:55,812
But there were some
who were jealous of us.

645
00:39:55,896 --> 00:39:58,398
It made me upset.

646
00:39:58,482 --> 00:39:59,316
[camera bleeps]

647
00:39:59,399 --> 00:40:05,822
This was about 10 times harder
than any mountain I've climbed.

648
00:40:08,534 --> 00:40:14,206
I got frostbite on my cheeks,
so I was also really scared.

649
00:40:17,125 --> 00:40:18,252
[camera bleeps]

650
00:40:19,795 --> 00:40:23,715
Very few people
achieve a world record in life.

651
00:40:23,799 --> 00:40:26,593
It's something I'm very proud of.

652
00:40:26,677 --> 00:40:27,636
[camera bleeps]

653
00:40:30,180 --> 00:40:31,640
[Sandro] Really the problem is

654
00:40:31,723 --> 00:40:33,892
that normally the Nepalis
are friendly and helpful

655
00:40:33,976 --> 00:40:36,270
and help the Westerners get to the top.

656
00:40:36,353 --> 00:40:39,606
But this was really an expedition
where there was none of that.

657
00:40:40,566 --> 00:40:41,692
And there was no way

658
00:40:41,775 --> 00:40:45,445
that Nims was gonna agree
to taking any Westerners to the summit.

659
00:40:46,738 --> 00:40:47,739
[camera clicks]

660
00:40:48,657 --> 00:40:50,284
Like, when we were in base camp,

661
00:40:50,367 --> 00:40:53,412
Nims had told me
to pack for five days' climbing,

662
00:40:53,495 --> 00:40:55,455
which would have included a summit.

663
00:40:57,124 --> 00:41:01,253
But then, once we got to camp three,
Nims said, "You need to go down."

664
00:41:01,336 --> 00:41:03,797
So I was so pissed off.

665
00:41:03,881 --> 00:41:05,883
[film reel whirring]

666
00:41:07,384 --> 00:41:09,928
That said, in all these old climbing films

667
00:41:10,012 --> 00:41:13,473
it's always the Westerners
that turn the Sherpa around at camp four,

668
00:41:13,557 --> 00:41:15,350
so it's a glorious Western summit

669
00:41:15,434 --> 00:41:18,520
and no one needs to mention
the Sherpa working for them. So…

670
00:41:19,104 --> 00:41:22,649
Part of me thinks that Nims
just did a reverse twist of that.

671
00:41:26,486 --> 00:41:30,908
All 8,000-meter mountains are climbed
thanks to the work of the Sherpa.

672
00:41:31,408 --> 00:41:34,203
But in terms of recognition
they were always last.

673
00:41:34,286 --> 00:41:36,038
[Colin] Congratulations, man.
Well deserved.

674
00:41:36,121 --> 00:41:39,791
[Sandro] I met this U.S. Marine once,
who gave me this Bible quote,

675
00:41:40,375 --> 00:41:44,004
"The first shall be last,
and the last first."

676
00:41:45,756 --> 00:41:49,927
I don't know who came up with that saying,
but it's an absolute banger. [laughs]

677
00:41:50,010 --> 00:41:53,096
[wind rushing]

678
00:42:03,106 --> 00:42:07,152
[Magdalena] It was super hard
for us to be happy for the Sherpa.

679
00:42:07,736 --> 00:42:09,863
Because the next day in the morning,

680
00:42:10,405 --> 00:42:14,701
me and my cameraman, Oswald,

681
00:42:14,785 --> 00:42:18,038
we were going down from camp two,

682
00:42:20,541 --> 00:42:24,795
and that's when the accident happened.

683
00:42:30,843 --> 00:42:33,720
At some point,
I heard some noise coming down.

684
00:42:33,804 --> 00:42:36,515
I thought, "This has to be,
like, a huge rock."

685
00:42:37,432 --> 00:42:40,978
Um, and I just grabbed,
the fastest I could,

686
00:42:41,061 --> 00:42:43,897
like, the GoPro
that I had in my internal pocket.

687
00:42:43,981 --> 00:42:45,190
In my down suit.

688
00:42:45,274 --> 00:42:50,153
- [wind battering]
- [rolling thuds]

689
00:42:50,237 --> 00:42:51,530
[camera bleeps]

690
00:42:53,115 --> 00:42:54,116
Somehow I'm happy

691
00:42:54,199 --> 00:42:56,910
that I didn't record the moment
when you see the body.

692
00:42:57,619 --> 00:42:59,329
But you can see that the gloves,

693
00:42:59,413 --> 00:43:02,165
mitten gloves
are still, like, falling down.

694
00:43:03,667 --> 00:43:05,294
- [Oswald] You saw what happened?
- Huh?

695
00:43:05,377 --> 00:43:07,254
- [Oswald] You saw what happened?
- I don't know.

696
00:43:07,337 --> 00:43:09,840
[Oswald] You will go down
to see what's happened. Yes? Okay.

697
00:43:12,342 --> 00:43:14,720
I went after Juan Pablo.

698
00:43:16,138 --> 00:43:17,097
[camera bleeps]

699
00:43:17,181 --> 00:43:21,351
The closer I was getting, I understood
that there is a person laying down

700
00:43:21,435 --> 00:43:24,229
um, on the floor, on the rocks.

701
00:43:24,313 --> 00:43:27,983
And then Tamara said, "It's Sergi."

702
00:43:28,066 --> 00:43:31,153
[cheering indistinctly]

703
00:43:31,236 --> 00:43:35,949
[Angela] Sergi Mingote was perhaps
the most experienced climber

704
00:43:36,033 --> 00:43:37,451
on the mountain.

705
00:43:38,285 --> 00:43:43,290
He was climbing
with his friend, Juan Pablo Mohr.

706
00:43:47,628 --> 00:43:51,840
[Tamara] Normally mountaineers,
they're a little bit more closed.

707
00:43:51,924 --> 00:43:53,383
A bit of ego.

708
00:43:55,260 --> 00:44:01,517
But with those guys, I experienced
completely the opposite thing, you know.

709
00:44:04,394 --> 00:44:09,566
And especially Sergi
gave me this feeling of, "I am safe."

710
00:44:09,650 --> 00:44:10,651
[camera clicks]

711
00:44:10,734 --> 00:44:12,736
[soft, slow notes playing]

712
00:44:21,537 --> 00:44:23,539
When he fell down…

713
00:44:25,207 --> 00:44:29,795
I was so under shock,
that my body is just functioning.

714
00:44:29,878 --> 00:44:32,714
There is no emotion allowed.

715
00:44:34,341 --> 00:44:36,927
[Oswald] You know,
it's a super absurd situation.

716
00:44:38,637 --> 00:44:43,141
You have, like, the body of Sergi
just left there in a sleeping bag.

717
00:44:45,060 --> 00:44:48,313
But then, like, you have
all these people surrounding him,

718
00:44:48,397 --> 00:44:50,315
trying to do some recordings.

719
00:44:51,525 --> 00:44:55,529
[indistinct chatter]

720
00:44:55,612 --> 00:44:57,865
- [camera bleeps]
- [indistinct chatter]

721
00:45:00,284 --> 00:45:04,788
For me, in this moment, I was thinking,
the first ascent is gone.

722
00:45:04,872 --> 00:45:07,583
Like, the "prize" of being first is gone.

723
00:45:08,333 --> 00:45:11,253
And now Sergi, one of the most
experienced guys out there…

724
00:45:12,004 --> 00:45:13,714
No one really knows what happened.

725
00:45:15,174 --> 00:45:17,217
Possibly he got hit by a rock.

726
00:45:18,343 --> 00:45:19,636
And he's dead.

727
00:45:21,889 --> 00:45:23,473
It's time to go home.

728
00:45:29,855 --> 00:45:34,234
[Arnold] When Sergi died, I really felt
like the odds were not in our favor.

729
00:45:34,651 --> 00:45:39,364
And to continue this climb
was actually not a good idea.

730
00:45:41,241 --> 00:45:44,203
Especially with all the novice climbers.

731
00:45:44,286 --> 00:45:47,456
Like, "Look, now
this experienced guy, he fell down.

732
00:45:47,539 --> 00:45:49,708
What's gonna happen
to the rest?" You know?

733
00:45:55,506 --> 00:45:58,967
[Tamara] Later, I was just sitting down
and I was crying.

734
00:45:59,051 --> 00:46:03,639
And in this moment I said,
"Okay, this expedition, for me, is over.

735
00:46:03,722 --> 00:46:05,557
I just want to go home now."

736
00:46:06,517 --> 00:46:10,270
[Oswald] Yeah, first thing tomorrow,
everyone was going home.

737
00:46:11,230 --> 00:46:13,232
The Nepali team climbed the mountain.

738
00:46:13,732 --> 00:46:14,900
Sergi died.

739
00:46:15,734 --> 00:46:17,402
It was, like, no point to be here.

740
00:46:31,500 --> 00:46:35,295
[Colin] But then the next thing
that happens is these helicopters arrive,

741
00:46:35,379 --> 00:46:39,174
full of high-ranking military officers.

742
00:46:39,925 --> 00:46:43,387
The Nepalese have successfully
summited K2 in winter,

743
00:46:43,470 --> 00:46:47,057
and the Pakistani military
came to celebrate.

744
00:46:47,516 --> 00:46:51,019
[conversing indistinctly]

745
00:46:52,938 --> 00:46:55,732
[Tamara] The military who came
with the helicopter said,

746
00:46:55,816 --> 00:46:58,735
"How is this possible
that the Nepali are going to the top,

747
00:46:58,819 --> 00:47:02,614
and Ali and John
are here already one month before,

748
00:47:02,698 --> 00:47:06,243
and now they have no summit?"

749
00:47:06,326 --> 00:47:10,289
So it was, like,
the hero of Pakistan failed.

750
00:47:14,293 --> 00:47:20,048
And for me immediately… bam!
I saw Ali completely different.

751
00:47:21,592 --> 00:47:23,594
[wind buffeting microphone]

752
00:47:25,679 --> 00:47:28,765
He was a bit nervous of this tension,

753
00:47:28,849 --> 00:47:33,145
so I think he was not sure what to do now.

754
00:47:42,905 --> 00:47:45,407
[sorrowful piano music playing]

755
00:47:54,958 --> 00:47:59,546
[Sajid, in Urdu] I told my father
that the first winter summit is over.

756
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:05,344
There are weather changes in February.

757
00:48:09,806 --> 00:48:14,228
February is always risky because of bad
weather conditions and very high winds.

758
00:48:14,311 --> 00:48:18,315
So doing the summit
during this period will be too risky.

759
00:48:19,233 --> 00:48:22,528
We should give up because someone
has already done the summit now.

760
00:48:23,612 --> 00:48:28,075
Even the kitchen staff realized
we shouldn't push on.

761
00:48:32,162 --> 00:48:35,832
My family, especially my mother,
were very worried

762
00:48:35,916 --> 00:48:39,586
and said it is quite late,
so come back home.

763
00:48:44,216 --> 00:48:51,223
But that's when we heard that a man
named Elia is arriving to make a film.

764
00:48:51,306 --> 00:48:54,351
He will be making a film
about us climbing K2.

765
00:48:54,726 --> 00:48:56,687
[helicopter whirring]

766
00:48:58,438 --> 00:49:00,774
[dramatic, pulsing music playing]

767
00:49:00,858 --> 00:49:02,818
The rule that I set
for myself, essentially

768
00:49:02,901 --> 00:49:06,280
was that if I was gonna take on K2
I wanted to find the right story.

769
00:49:08,365 --> 00:49:11,076
And even though Nims had summited,

770
00:49:11,785 --> 00:49:14,997
I'm not gonna lie to you, on K2 in winter,

771
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:18,292
you'd be a fool to think
that nothing else is going to happen.

772
00:49:20,127 --> 00:49:23,589
And the story that I wanted to tell
was the story of the underdogs.

773
00:49:23,672 --> 00:49:27,801
I'd been sitting at home trying to figure
out how to get myself over to Pakistan.

774
00:49:29,636 --> 00:49:30,846
And, in the end,

775
00:49:30,929 --> 00:49:33,557
the way that I pitched this
to the military,

776
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:36,185
was that I wanna tell a Pakistani story.

777
00:49:36,268 --> 00:49:41,607
We have your national hero mountaineer,
and his son, who are on this mountain.

778
00:49:41,690 --> 00:49:45,277
And I wanna help raise their star.

779
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:47,362
[music continues]

780
00:49:48,572 --> 00:49:52,201
And the military, the government,
were very interested in that.

781
00:49:54,536 --> 00:49:56,997
A lot of people
are extremely poor in Pakistan.

782
00:50:00,125 --> 00:50:02,169
Tourism is a way out.

783
00:50:06,590 --> 00:50:08,509
So, from their perspective,

784
00:50:08,592 --> 00:50:12,721
Ali's story was an opportunity
to hopefully inspire people

785
00:50:12,804 --> 00:50:15,057
to come to Pakistan
and see it all for themselves.

786
00:50:18,727 --> 00:50:21,939
[Arnold] The pressure
became really high for Ali.

787
00:50:22,022 --> 00:50:23,857
From all sides. From the media,

788
00:50:23,941 --> 00:50:26,944
from the army that shows up,
the filming guy that shows up.

789
00:50:28,237 --> 00:50:31,865
I don't know exactly what they told him,
but it was very clear.

790
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:35,118
Ali simply had to summit.

791
00:50:35,202 --> 00:50:38,705
To show that the Pakistanis
are as good as the Sherpas.

792
00:50:38,789 --> 00:50:42,668
[Elia] Do you feel like maybe
you're very close to your dream right now?

793
00:50:42,751 --> 00:50:47,047
Inshallah, yeah.
We are very strong this year.

794
00:50:47,130 --> 00:50:48,966
We are very well acclimatized.

795
00:50:49,049 --> 00:50:53,887
And John also very strong with us,
and we do our best.

796
00:50:54,596 --> 00:51:00,811
There was so much pressure,
from the eyes, from everybody.

797
00:51:01,645 --> 00:51:05,107
Watching the team,
if they're gonna finish this or not.

798
00:51:06,149 --> 00:51:07,276
[Elia] And go for it.

799
00:51:08,402 --> 00:51:12,322
[Lina] I said to him, "It's almost over,
you will come home soon."

800
00:51:13,240 --> 00:51:14,658
But he decided

801
00:51:14,741 --> 00:51:20,122
he could be the first Icelander
to climb K2 in wintertime.

802
00:51:20,789 --> 00:51:26,587
So there was still a chance
to make mountaineering history, actually.

803
00:51:26,670 --> 00:51:29,256
[pulsing music continues]

804
00:51:33,135 --> 00:51:35,762
[in English] Now, what do you think
about the camp?

805
00:51:35,846 --> 00:51:37,472
- [Ali chuckles]
- Getting empty, huh?

806
00:51:37,556 --> 00:51:40,017
- Yeah, it is.
- How many people left this morning?

807
00:51:40,100 --> 00:51:44,188
This morning maybe 14,
15 people left, yeah.

808
00:51:44,271 --> 00:51:45,772
[John] Yeah. Uy-uy-uy.

809
00:51:45,856 --> 00:51:47,733
Inshallah, we also go with heli.

810
00:51:47,816 --> 00:51:50,110
No, no, no. When we-- After we summit,

811
00:51:50,194 --> 00:51:51,778
- we stay here celebrate.
- Yes.

812
00:51:51,862 --> 00:51:53,447
- In base camp.
- In base camp.

813
00:51:53,530 --> 00:51:56,992
[Colin] Ali and John had been there
for a couple months at this point.

814
00:51:57,409 --> 00:52:00,078
And so they decide, "We're going for it."

815
00:52:00,162 --> 00:52:03,665
- [distant rumbling]
- The rest of us had planned to leave.

816
00:52:03,749 --> 00:52:05,250
You see avalanche over there?

817
00:52:06,293 --> 00:52:07,294
[Ali] Yeah.

818
00:52:07,377 --> 00:52:09,463
But when one person decides
they're going for it,

819
00:52:09,546 --> 00:52:12,216
there becomes this,
sort of, questioning of groupthink.

820
00:52:14,384 --> 00:52:16,637
And I remember sitting
with JP and Tamara, being like,

821
00:52:18,013 --> 00:52:21,725
"Is this expedition over, or do we stay?"

822
00:52:21,808 --> 00:52:22,643
[camera clicks]

823
00:52:24,436 --> 00:52:27,439
[Tamara] In the days
after Sergi's accident,

824
00:52:27,523 --> 00:52:30,692
I spoke with JP about this.

825
00:52:30,776 --> 00:52:33,111
Of course he was very sad.

826
00:52:34,363 --> 00:52:38,283
But I said, "Okay, mountaineering
is a discovery not only of the mountain,

827
00:52:38,367 --> 00:52:40,410
it is a discovery of yourself.

828
00:52:42,162 --> 00:52:45,999
There is no better place
to work on these feelings than here."

829
00:52:48,043 --> 00:52:49,253
[Oswald] Somehow I felt

830
00:52:49,336 --> 00:52:52,214
like Juan Pablo and Tamara were,
like, the most experienced.

831
00:52:52,297 --> 00:52:55,509
And they were, like, important persons
to shape also my opinion.

832
00:52:55,592 --> 00:52:56,593
[camera clicks]

833
00:52:58,637 --> 00:53:04,184
And when they told me we can continue,
I felt, "Okay, I'm just Oswald."

834
00:53:04,268 --> 00:53:07,437
Like, I'm a guy
that was there just to film Magdalena.

835
00:53:07,521 --> 00:53:10,357
Like, I wasn't, like, a guy
that climbed eight-thousanders,

836
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:13,360
that dealt with death so many times.

837
00:53:16,071 --> 00:53:20,200
[Arnold] A few days after Sergi died,
the whole atmosphere changed again.

838
00:53:21,451 --> 00:53:26,415
Most of the climbers somehow convinced
themselves to stay on the mountain.

839
00:53:28,041 --> 00:53:31,628
I decided I'm just gonna do
some damage control.

840
00:53:31,712 --> 00:53:35,048
I hope nobody makes a mistake,
but this is madness.

841
00:53:42,764 --> 00:53:44,766
Hello, Jan. This is John Snorri.

842
00:53:45,267 --> 00:53:48,061
[indistinct voice over phone]

843
00:53:48,145 --> 00:53:53,442
[Angela] Then there came news
of another possible summit window.

844
00:53:55,402 --> 00:53:57,446
[John] Do you have, like,
a timetable of the wind,

845
00:53:57,529 --> 00:54:00,824
when the wind will start to slow down?

846
00:54:02,409 --> 00:54:04,828
I understand that, but I'm try--

847
00:54:04,912 --> 00:54:06,872
[indistinct voice over phone]

848
00:54:06,955 --> 00:54:08,624
I am trying to understand.

849
00:54:09,833 --> 00:54:11,251
Yeah, you don't understand me.

850
00:54:11,335 --> 00:54:14,296
[indistinct voice over phone]

851
00:54:14,379 --> 00:54:16,215
Uh, Jan, could you se--

852
00:54:16,298 --> 00:54:19,468
- [indistinct voice over phone]
- Don't speak any English.

853
00:54:21,470 --> 00:54:25,682
Okay, Jan. I wait-- You send me now.
You send me now. Okay?

854
00:54:26,642 --> 00:54:28,018
- Bye-bye.
- [phone beeps]

855
00:54:28,435 --> 00:54:30,771
Oof, he don't speak any English.

856
00:54:30,854 --> 00:54:32,022
Stuck.

857
00:54:32,105 --> 00:54:33,482
[John] This is short window.

858
00:54:33,774 --> 00:54:35,776
Our weather man says it's too short.

859
00:54:35,859 --> 00:54:37,444
But we're gonna use it.

860
00:54:37,528 --> 00:54:39,279
Because we are-- We can.

861
00:54:39,363 --> 00:54:41,156
We can. Mm-hmm.

862
00:54:41,240 --> 00:54:42,866
If we couldn't, I would say no.

863
00:54:42,950 --> 00:54:47,329
But we can use it.
And we will try to use it. We will use it.

864
00:54:48,372 --> 00:54:49,915
[climber] I might even use it.

865
00:54:49,998 --> 00:54:51,083
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

866
00:54:52,835 --> 00:54:54,795
I think this is our shot.

867
00:54:57,548 --> 00:54:59,049
- Very good.
- Yeah.

868
00:54:59,508 --> 00:55:00,467
[smacks lips]

869
00:55:01,385 --> 00:55:02,427
Excellent.

870
00:55:03,846 --> 00:55:04,805
[Ali] Mm-hmm.

871
00:55:05,722 --> 00:55:06,723
Yes.

872
00:55:13,730 --> 00:55:15,732
[indistinct chatter]

873
00:55:36,587 --> 00:55:38,046
[Arnold] This window looks short,

874
00:55:38,130 --> 00:55:40,883
but I guess
that's the way it is in winter.

875
00:55:40,966 --> 00:55:44,011
And I'd like to remind everybody
on the timings.

876
00:55:44,094 --> 00:55:45,554
It's for your own safety.

877
00:55:45,637 --> 00:55:50,809
So I think I told you guys
six and a half hours roughly to camp one.

878
00:55:50,893 --> 00:55:54,021
Uh, five hours from camp one to two.

879
00:55:54,104 --> 00:55:57,858
So I give that speech in basecamp
the night before everybody sets off.

880
00:55:57,941 --> 00:56:01,820
I tell them the weather window
is pretty marginal.

881
00:56:01,904 --> 00:56:05,574
And I tell people very clearly
the turnaround times.

882
00:56:06,408 --> 00:56:09,119
If somehow, on the way,

883
00:56:09,203 --> 00:56:11,955
you're not gonna make the timings,
maybe it's not your day,

884
00:56:12,039 --> 00:56:14,208
and maybe you should
forget about the summit.

885
00:56:14,291 --> 00:56:17,127
[Arnold] Everybody knows
this is extremely dangerous.

886
00:56:18,045 --> 00:56:19,963
Whether you're gonna take that risk or not

887
00:56:20,047 --> 00:56:23,467
in my opinion,
was up to the member, not to me.

888
00:56:26,345 --> 00:56:29,806
[Magdalena] The day we made
the decision we are going up,

889
00:56:30,807 --> 00:56:36,647
my Sherpa told me that before
the Nepali team went to the summit,

890
00:56:38,273 --> 00:56:42,110
Nims was talking things
like cutting the ropes,

891
00:56:42,194 --> 00:56:46,240
so that nobody could follow them
and do the summit.

892
00:56:47,533 --> 00:56:49,284
I didn't say anything

893
00:56:49,368 --> 00:56:56,375
because I could not imagine people
who are really able to do that.

894
00:56:56,458 --> 00:56:58,460
[wind whistling]

895
00:57:00,337 --> 00:57:03,131
But, at the same time, I know Nims.

896
00:57:03,715 --> 00:57:08,804
I know how he behaves, and what he shows.

897
00:57:10,389 --> 00:57:15,519
Don't judge him,
or anybody, from social media,

898
00:57:15,602 --> 00:57:18,647
because this is just a creation.

899
00:57:18,730 --> 00:57:20,732
[wind howling]

900
00:57:27,781 --> 00:57:29,700
- [climber] Nice morning.
- [John] Oh, yeah.

901
00:57:32,286 --> 00:57:33,579
[John] See you up there.

902
00:57:33,662 --> 00:57:35,372
See you up there, brother. Take care.

903
00:57:35,455 --> 00:57:37,457
[John] Take care. Be careful of the rocks.

904
00:57:37,541 --> 00:57:39,084
[Bernhard] I think you're on the mountain.

905
00:57:39,168 --> 00:57:40,419
[John] Yeah, see you on the mountain.

906
00:57:40,502 --> 00:57:43,547
[ominous music playing]

907
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:48,468
[Colin] It's all gotten very real.

908
00:57:48,552 --> 00:57:53,182
Like, we're actually attempting
a real summit push on K2 in the winter.

909
00:57:55,309 --> 00:57:58,729
JP and Tamara had decided,
"Hey, let's climb together."

910
00:57:59,396 --> 00:58:01,732
You know, I was starting to notice
the sort of inkling

911
00:58:01,815 --> 00:58:04,776
of a romantic something
happening between the two of them.

912
00:58:04,860 --> 00:58:07,279
Although it wasn't, you know,
super openly discussed

913
00:58:07,362 --> 00:58:10,532
it was pretty obvious that they at least
had a growing love for each other.

914
00:58:12,492 --> 00:58:15,913
When I decided to start
with JP towards the summit,

915
00:58:15,996 --> 00:58:20,501
I felt really happy
that I was in the team with him and so on.

916
00:58:20,584 --> 00:58:25,255
But then he was always in front
and I think he was a bit angry.

917
00:58:25,339 --> 00:58:27,424
Because of my pace, let's say.

918
00:58:30,802 --> 00:58:32,179
I understood that,

919
00:58:32,262 --> 00:58:36,433
but then at the same time
I was asking myself

920
00:58:36,517 --> 00:58:40,479
why I needed to fall in love.
Why all this, you know?

921
00:58:40,771 --> 00:58:42,898
[in Italian] Here we are at camp one.

922
00:58:43,482 --> 00:58:45,609
[in English] JP, tell me something.

923
00:58:47,402 --> 00:58:50,405
We are motivated… [laughs]

924
00:58:50,489 --> 00:58:52,407
for summit.

925
00:58:52,741 --> 00:58:54,368
[Tamara] I don't know,

926
00:58:54,451 --> 00:58:55,702
we will see.

927
00:58:56,453 --> 00:58:58,038
No pressure, no pressure.

928
00:58:58,121 --> 00:58:59,831
[JP] Pressure.

929
00:59:01,834 --> 00:59:06,964
[Magdalena] It's hard going on that kind
of expedition, because it's a pressure.

930
00:59:09,967 --> 00:59:13,595
And now the pressure was even bigger.

931
00:59:14,388 --> 00:59:18,058
But that night, I was really so weak.

932
00:59:18,433 --> 00:59:21,562
So, yeah, sickness stopped me.

933
00:59:21,645 --> 00:59:22,896
[coughs]

934
00:59:22,980 --> 00:59:27,150
But probably it saved
my life too. [wry chuckle]

935
00:59:29,903 --> 00:59:31,613
[wind howling]

936
00:59:33,031 --> 00:59:35,534
[Colin] At that point,
none of us had been above camp two.

937
00:59:35,617 --> 00:59:39,496
And so this would be the highest
any of us had been up on the mountain.

938
00:59:39,580 --> 00:59:40,706
[panting]

939
00:59:40,789 --> 00:59:42,624
- [Elia] Okay, Ali, John.
- [John] Yeah?

940
00:59:42,708 --> 00:59:44,126
[Elia] How are you guys doing?

941
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:47,754
Inshallah, our plan
is go tomorrow, camp three.

942
00:59:47,838 --> 00:59:50,465
Like 7,200 meters.

943
00:59:51,175 --> 00:59:54,928
And we will see. The summit push.

944
00:59:55,679 --> 00:59:56,930
- [Elia] Sajid?
- Yeah. Oh.

945
00:59:57,014 --> 00:59:59,725
- [Elia] Excited?
- Oh. Summit, yeah.

946
01:00:00,184 --> 01:00:02,186
K2 in winter. Very excited.

947
01:00:03,103 --> 01:00:04,563
- Yeah.
- [Elia] All right.

948
01:00:05,272 --> 01:00:07,691
[Colin] The route between
camp two and camp three,

949
01:00:07,774 --> 01:00:11,278
um, is the most technical,
challenging part of the route.

950
01:00:13,488 --> 01:00:15,616
You need to use, you know,
your crampons on rocks,

951
01:00:15,699 --> 01:00:17,201
which is just super awkward.

952
01:00:17,826 --> 01:00:19,411
With steep ice.

953
01:00:20,078 --> 01:00:22,623
It's blue ice so you need to be,

954
01:00:22,706 --> 01:00:25,584
the whole day,
on the front point of the crampons.

955
01:00:25,667 --> 01:00:28,295
It's very difficult for your body.

956
01:00:30,005 --> 01:00:34,468
[Colin] And you can't really sit still
for very long or you're gonna freeze.

957
01:00:34,551 --> 01:00:36,220
[Elia strains] Fuck.

958
01:00:36,303 --> 01:00:39,431
There's been, you know,
all sorts of stories of, you know,

959
01:00:39,515 --> 01:00:41,850
tents with no people inside
getting blown off the mountain.

960
01:00:41,934 --> 01:00:44,061
Tents full of gear.
Tents with people inside

961
01:00:44,144 --> 01:00:45,646
getting blown off the mountain.

962
01:00:45,729 --> 01:00:47,731
[tense music playing]

963
01:00:48,482 --> 01:00:52,945
And Seven Summits were bringing
clients into that environment.

964
01:00:53,487 --> 01:00:55,989
Who are not qualified
to be there in the first place.

965
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:03,121
[breathlessly] Today I understand
why for so many years…

966
01:01:04,331 --> 01:01:07,292
no people climbed, in winter, K2.

967
01:01:07,376 --> 01:01:11,421
Amazingly difficult. Amazingly difficult.

968
01:01:11,505 --> 01:01:12,422
[panting]

969
01:01:12,506 --> 01:01:16,969
[Elia] I'm filming this and I'm just
thinking, "This is really messed up."

970
01:01:17,052 --> 01:01:18,846
- Thank you, Elia.
- [Elia] Okay.

971
01:01:18,929 --> 01:01:20,931
Thank you so much.

972
01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:23,225
[Elia] I mean, it was clear to me

973
01:01:23,308 --> 01:01:26,812
that none of these clients
were going to get to camp three.

974
01:01:26,895 --> 01:01:28,897
[snow beating on microphone]

975
01:01:28,981 --> 01:01:30,607
[ominous music playing]

976
01:01:31,650 --> 01:01:33,318
[Elia] That's like going to the moon.

977
01:01:34,695 --> 01:01:36,530
I mean, you're on the edge of space.

978
01:01:37,739 --> 01:01:41,118
You know, the blood doesn't flow
the way that it flows at sea level.

979
01:01:41,201 --> 01:01:42,619
Everyone is compromised.

980
01:01:42,703 --> 01:01:44,830
You're almost in the death zone
at that point.

981
01:01:44,913 --> 01:01:47,708
Your body is deteriorating
faster than it can recover.

982
01:01:48,584 --> 01:01:52,045
Like, it's hard to walk,
it's hard to think, it's hard to breathe,

983
01:01:52,129 --> 01:01:55,299
it's exhausting
just putting your boots on.

984
01:01:55,382 --> 01:01:57,384
[wind howling]

985
01:01:59,595 --> 01:02:02,181
I don't have footage of this,
because I just wasn't capable.

986
01:02:03,557 --> 01:02:06,185
So I set up a camp
further down the mountain,

987
01:02:07,394 --> 01:02:10,063
to allow myself to recover.

988
01:02:10,147 --> 01:02:13,901
[heavy breathing through pump]

989
01:02:13,984 --> 01:02:15,986
[winds whistling]

990
01:02:22,284 --> 01:02:24,745
We're here at camp three.
Um, it's been quite a day.

991
01:02:24,828 --> 01:02:30,751
[breathlessly] Um, but, here now.
Gonna get inside the tent and warm up,

992
01:02:30,834 --> 01:02:32,628
and try to make some good decisions.

993
01:02:34,129 --> 01:02:35,881
[climber 2] This is camp three!

994
01:02:36,590 --> 01:02:38,300
[Colin] We arrived at camp three.

995
01:02:38,884 --> 01:02:42,596
We're in the tent,
JP's in his tent beside me with Tamara,

996
01:02:42,679 --> 01:02:44,806
and then there's sort of
a clear moment which is like,

997
01:02:44,890 --> 01:02:50,312
"Hey, this is the last night's sleep
before this next kind of mega push.

998
01:02:50,854 --> 01:02:53,273
I need to get as much rest
as I can in camp three."

999
01:02:53,774 --> 01:02:56,485
Change socks,
melt snow and turn it into water.

1000
01:02:56,568 --> 01:02:59,530
Fill up all of our water bottles,
and then continue on.

1001
01:03:01,406 --> 01:03:03,116
And then the sun goes down.

1002
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:07,037
And, you know, it goes
from cold to ridiculously cold.

1003
01:03:09,164 --> 01:03:14,837
The sun went away and it was becoming
so cold in this shadow.

1004
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:19,007
[inhales through teeth]
And I felt that the whole--

1005
01:03:19,091 --> 01:03:24,555
The cold is going into my shoes,
and it was like a monster.

1006
01:03:25,973 --> 01:03:29,393
You need really to think,
"Okay, do I have everything?

1007
01:03:29,476 --> 01:03:33,230
Are my shoes dry? Are my boots okay?"

1008
01:03:34,147 --> 01:03:40,988
It's the holy time
to prepare for the summit.

1009
01:03:44,408 --> 01:03:46,243
[Colin] Ali and John arrive.

1010
01:03:46,326 --> 01:03:48,453
And I'm thinking to myself,
"Well, we all made it up here.

1011
01:03:48,537 --> 01:03:51,123
And everyone else must have just gotten
too late in the day and realized,

1012
01:03:51,206 --> 01:03:52,958
'Hey, I'm turning around.'"

1013
01:03:53,333 --> 01:03:54,334
[climber 3 muttering]

1014
01:03:56,545 --> 01:03:57,629
[zipper scrapes]

1015
01:03:57,713 --> 01:03:59,423
[Colin] But then, long after dark,

1016
01:03:59,506 --> 01:04:02,384
I start hearing these voices
outside of my tent.

1017
01:04:03,385 --> 01:04:05,596
And I'm like, "Oh, my God,
they're still climbing?"

1018
01:04:05,679 --> 01:04:07,514
That whole Seven Summits expedition,

1019
01:04:07,598 --> 01:04:10,726
just took, how long,
12 hours or something to get here?

1020
01:04:10,809 --> 01:04:12,227
I couldn't believe it.

1021
01:04:14,396 --> 01:04:16,398
[boots crunching in snow]

1022
01:04:18,442 --> 01:04:20,527
[Bernhard, in German]
I arrived sometime during the night.

1023
01:04:20,611 --> 01:04:24,239
I don't know if it was around
midnight or 2am. I have no idea.

1024
01:04:26,950 --> 01:04:30,621
I felt strong and in good shape,
so why should I have turned around?

1025
01:04:30,996 --> 01:04:31,997
Huh?

1026
01:04:37,252 --> 01:04:38,712
[Colin] And then
I start hearing people saying,

1027
01:04:39,004 --> 01:04:41,215
"No, you have the tent.
No, you have the tent.

1028
01:04:41,298 --> 01:04:42,424
No, you have the tent."

1029
01:04:42,508 --> 01:04:46,178
Like, they're all thinking
the other person is carrying their tent.

1030
01:04:48,347 --> 01:04:49,515
And all of a sudden,

1031
01:04:49,598 --> 01:04:52,184
head after head after head
starts popping in my tent,

1032
01:04:52,267 --> 01:04:55,646
"Colin, can I come inside?
Can I come inside? Can I come inside?"

1033
01:04:58,899 --> 01:04:59,900
[camera bleeps]

1034
01:04:59,983 --> 01:05:02,486
- [indistinct voice over radio]
- This is a complete disaster.

1035
01:05:04,780 --> 01:05:06,365
[coughing]

1036
01:05:06,448 --> 01:05:10,577
[Elia] On the radio,
I start to hear Colin yelling.

1037
01:05:11,036 --> 01:05:12,955
And I thought,
"Well, if this is what's unfolding,

1038
01:05:13,038 --> 01:05:15,165
let me at least capture this."

1039
01:05:17,876 --> 01:05:19,628
[Colin, over radio]
I want to be on the record,

1040
01:05:19,711 --> 01:05:21,213
please record me saying this.

1041
01:05:21,296 --> 01:05:23,799
I am very worried
about people's health and safety.

1042
01:05:23,882 --> 01:05:26,051
There are many people
up here with no tent,

1043
01:05:26,134 --> 01:05:30,222
we're at 7,600 on K2
in the middle of the night in winter.

1044
01:05:30,305 --> 01:05:32,432
[wind rattling tent]

1045
01:05:32,516 --> 01:05:35,060
He was informing me
that there were no tents,

1046
01:05:35,143 --> 01:05:37,563
and his tent was the only tent there.

1047
01:05:37,646 --> 01:05:41,817
And slowly other people started to arrive,
and started filling up his tent.

1048
01:05:42,192 --> 01:05:46,113
[Colin, over radio] I'm very, very worried
about many people's health and safety,

1049
01:05:46,196 --> 01:05:49,241
and that is because
of breakdown in the organization.

1050
01:05:49,324 --> 01:05:51,410
No tents up here is unacceptable.

1051
01:05:53,287 --> 01:05:54,872
[Arnold, over radio]
Hi Colin, this is Arnold.

1052
01:05:54,955 --> 01:05:57,583
Uh, I understand
your situation completely.

1053
01:05:57,666 --> 01:05:59,251
We're trying to turn around people

1054
01:05:59,334 --> 01:06:03,463
but at the moment people are refusing
and that's causing a huge problem.

1055
01:06:04,256 --> 01:06:08,051
Some people took more than double
the time that I told them to take

1056
01:06:08,135 --> 01:06:10,304
in the speech in base camp.

1057
01:06:10,387 --> 01:06:14,016
And then on the way up,
we told people to turn around.

1058
01:06:14,433 --> 01:06:16,935
And nobody listened,
everybody just kept going.

1059
01:06:17,019 --> 01:06:22,941
So everybody ended up
in that camp three, with not enough tents.

1060
01:06:23,025 --> 01:06:26,111
And then, yeah,
what can you say, there was chaos.

1061
01:06:26,195 --> 01:06:28,197
[tent rattling]

1062
01:06:29,281 --> 01:06:33,327
[Elia] Arnold says, had people
have respected those turnaround times,

1063
01:06:33,410 --> 01:06:35,954
that this wouldn't have been
an issue in the first place.

1064
01:06:36,038 --> 01:06:38,415
And the problem with that argument,
from my point of view,

1065
01:06:38,498 --> 01:06:42,920
is that, well, if that's your argument
and that's what you're relying on,

1066
01:06:43,003 --> 01:06:45,380
what would've happened if they
would've made their turnaround times?

1067
01:06:45,464 --> 01:06:47,591
They would still be in the same situation.

1068
01:06:48,342 --> 01:06:51,929
So it's just, like, admit
that you made a major mistake here.

1069
01:06:52,012 --> 01:06:54,890
Admit that you should have
never allowed people

1070
01:06:54,973 --> 01:06:56,517
to ascend to camp three,

1071
01:06:56,600 --> 01:06:59,353
without having camp three
properly stocked and prepared.

1072
01:06:59,853 --> 01:07:03,398
[Colin] Arnold, we're in a legitimately
bad situation right now.

1073
01:07:03,482 --> 01:07:06,693
Why are their sherpas not carrying tents?

1074
01:07:06,777 --> 01:07:08,320
At that point, they said,

1075
01:07:08,403 --> 01:07:12,157
"Oh, well, the Nepalese were up here,
and they left some stuff on the mountain.

1076
01:07:12,241 --> 01:07:13,450
Maybe there's a tent there."

1077
01:07:13,534 --> 01:07:17,037
And I'm thinking,
"It was 150 miles per hour up here.

1078
01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:20,123
Like, there's nothing left up here.
It's blown off the mountain."

1079
01:07:20,207 --> 01:07:22,835
[Colin] No one has been up here
since Nims, is that right, over?

1080
01:07:23,210 --> 01:07:24,586
[Arnold] That's right, over.

1081
01:07:25,170 --> 01:07:26,922
[Colin] No shit that's right, over.

1082
01:07:27,464 --> 01:07:29,633
[Arnold] Sherpas are also just people,
you know,

1083
01:07:29,716 --> 01:07:32,135
you cannot blame them
for not going up in the wind.

1084
01:07:32,219 --> 01:07:33,804
[Colin] Oh, I don't blame them at all.

1085
01:07:33,887 --> 01:07:36,932
But I do blame you guys for trying
to pretend like tents were here

1086
01:07:37,015 --> 01:07:39,476
from the 15th of January

1087
01:07:39,560 --> 01:07:41,854
when we've had
150-mile-per-hour winds up here.

1088
01:07:41,937 --> 01:07:43,355
Come on man, you're better than that.

1089
01:07:43,814 --> 01:07:47,943
[Arnold] Uh, yes. That's a big--
That's a big, big mistake.

1090
01:07:48,026 --> 01:07:49,820
[Colin] Like, I'm afraid, I'm freaked out

1091
01:07:49,903 --> 01:07:51,822
and I'm essentially in the fetal position.

1092
01:07:51,905 --> 01:07:54,074
Can't move my legs, can't unzip my boots,

1093
01:07:54,157 --> 01:07:55,659
can't get to my backpack.

1094
01:07:55,742 --> 01:07:57,911
And it's just a big sort of dog pile.

1095
01:07:57,995 --> 01:08:01,707
[over radio]
There's no tents, no food, and…

1096
01:08:02,291 --> 01:08:04,418
I think that…

1097
01:08:04,501 --> 01:08:05,961
some people…

1098
01:08:06,044 --> 01:08:07,880
will die this night.

1099
01:08:09,423 --> 01:08:11,175
[Colin] Obviously I can't understand
any of these guys

1100
01:08:11,258 --> 01:08:13,510
so what are they really
fucking saying to each other?

1101
01:08:13,969 --> 01:08:17,096
[Arnold] We're trying to make Temba,
who is the leader,

1102
01:08:17,180 --> 01:08:19,600
tell everybody they have to go down.

1103
01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:22,978
[in Nepali] Please take some people
out of Colin's tent.

1104
01:08:23,060 --> 01:08:24,813
We'll need to make adjustments somehow.

1105
01:08:27,064 --> 01:08:29,109
[Sherpa, in Nepali]
It's not possible at all.

1106
01:08:29,193 --> 01:08:31,069
Half of us are already staying outside.

1107
01:08:32,696 --> 01:08:33,988
[Arnold, in English]
The Sherpas are now arguing

1108
01:08:34,072 --> 01:08:36,992
with a couple of people
that they have to go down. Uh…

1109
01:08:37,075 --> 01:08:39,745
Let's hope the Sherpas convince them.

1110
01:08:42,038 --> 01:08:44,666
[in German] I couldn't imagine descending.

1111
01:08:44,750 --> 01:08:48,879
It would have been
completely impossible, at least for me.

1112
01:08:49,337 --> 01:08:51,340
[wind roaring]

1113
01:08:53,091 --> 01:08:58,639
[Bernhard] That's when I really felt
my body was completely exhausted.

1114
01:08:58,721 --> 01:09:02,017
My feet were completely frozen,
my fingers were cold,

1115
01:09:02,100 --> 01:09:04,603
and I knew something wasn't right.

1116
01:09:04,685 --> 01:09:06,854
[ominous music playing]

1117
01:09:06,939 --> 01:09:08,564
[Tamara, in English]
JP's tent was so small

1118
01:09:08,649 --> 01:09:11,443
and then guys
from Seven Summits came in.

1119
01:09:12,069 --> 01:09:17,282
And of course I was just making
myself as small as possible.

1120
01:09:18,200 --> 01:09:20,493
Inside me, I already knew

1121
01:09:20,577 --> 01:09:24,831
that this is not the right time
for me to make a summit attempt.

1122
01:09:25,457 --> 01:09:27,501
But I didn't want to say anything

1123
01:09:27,584 --> 01:09:30,921
because JP had decided
to go for the summit.

1124
01:09:31,004 --> 01:09:32,714
So, if I say something now,

1125
01:09:32,798 --> 01:09:35,759
then it's already negative in his mind,

1126
01:09:35,843 --> 01:09:38,845
and maybe better not to say anything.

1127
01:09:40,180 --> 01:09:42,182
[tent rattling]

1128
01:09:47,437 --> 01:09:51,024
[in Urdu] There was chaos
and a strange situation in camp three.

1129
01:09:51,649 --> 01:09:54,069
There were six people in our tent.

1130
01:09:54,653 --> 01:09:58,365
So, we couldn't relax,
we couldn't even boil the water.

1131
01:09:58,448 --> 01:09:59,992
[radio static]

1132
01:10:00,075 --> 01:10:03,745
Six people and no one's
boiling any water - did he say that?

1133
01:10:04,079 --> 01:10:04,913
[cameraman] Yeah.

1134
01:10:06,081 --> 01:10:07,124
[clears throat]

1135
01:10:07,207 --> 01:10:10,460
[Elia] When you're at 8,000 meters
on a mountain,

1136
01:10:11,211 --> 01:10:12,921
you need to rest, you need to melt snow,

1137
01:10:13,005 --> 01:10:15,799
you need to hydrate and you need space.

1138
01:10:16,550 --> 01:10:20,762
So, three people in a single tent works.

1139
01:10:20,846 --> 01:10:23,557
Six people does not work whatsoever.

1140
01:10:25,601 --> 01:10:28,729
[Arnold] Ali and Snorri
were not part of my team,

1141
01:10:29,521 --> 01:10:32,482
but I still told them
it's not a good idea.

1142
01:10:33,609 --> 01:10:37,321
Everybody had a bad night,
because of the chaos in camp three.

1143
01:10:37,404 --> 01:10:40,449
So we kind of advised them not to go.

1144
01:10:44,745 --> 01:10:48,081
[Lina] I had a phone call
from John in camp three.

1145
01:10:49,666 --> 01:10:52,711
They had, like,
real trouble in their tents.

1146
01:10:53,921 --> 01:10:59,426
They didn't manage to rest,
they didn't manage to rub their feet,

1147
01:10:59,510 --> 01:11:02,095
and just clear their mind.

1148
01:11:04,264 --> 01:11:07,768
I could not ask what was going on,

1149
01:11:07,851 --> 01:11:10,521
because he didn't wanna speak about it.

1150
01:11:10,604 --> 01:11:12,940
[wind howling]

1151
01:11:13,023 --> 01:11:16,360
But he said he's going for the summit.

1152
01:11:16,443 --> 01:11:17,277
[camera bleeps]

1153
01:11:22,533 --> 01:11:26,787
Usually, he says, "Goodbye, my love,"
or something like that.

1154
01:11:26,870 --> 01:11:30,165
But there, he didn't say it.
It was like…

1155
01:11:32,251 --> 01:11:33,502
just, "Bye."

1156
01:11:40,759 --> 01:11:42,761
- [camera bleeps]
- [silence]

1157
01:11:49,142 --> 01:11:51,645
[light wind blowing]

1158
01:12:01,488 --> 01:12:03,156
[Sherpa exclaims indistinctly]

1159
01:12:08,871 --> 01:12:10,873
[shovel digging into snow]

1160
01:12:13,041 --> 01:12:16,712
There it is. The view from camp three.

1161
01:12:18,046 --> 01:12:19,381
My high spot.

1162
01:12:20,757 --> 01:12:22,759
Need to feel that positive energy and…

1163
01:12:22,843 --> 01:12:24,970
- Yeah, I also…
- [Colin] Too much tension and…

1164
01:12:25,053 --> 01:12:27,764
- Yeah.
- [Colin] …just not, not, not right.

1165
01:12:27,848 --> 01:12:29,016
- Yeah.
- [Colin] Something's not right, so…

1166
01:12:29,099 --> 01:12:31,518
- Yeah, I feel the same.
- [Colin] I had to say…

1167
01:12:32,227 --> 01:12:35,522
I-- My body felt good, you know.

1168
01:12:38,734 --> 01:12:39,735
But…

1169
01:12:40,152 --> 01:12:42,362
- That's it.
- [Tamara strains] See you down there.

1170
01:12:42,446 --> 01:12:44,114
- [Colin] You get down safe, okay?
- Yeah.

1171
01:12:44,198 --> 01:12:47,534
[Colin] In the night,
JP had gone for the summit,

1172
01:12:47,618 --> 01:12:52,497
with Sajid, John Snorri and Ali.
Everyone else was coming back down.

1173
01:12:52,581 --> 01:12:53,457
Okay.

1174
01:12:56,293 --> 01:12:58,128
Time to go down!

1175
01:12:58,629 --> 01:12:59,671
- Hey, Colin.
- How are you?

1176
01:12:59,755 --> 01:13:02,633
- You've done the wise job. Huh?
- [climber] Colin.

1177
01:13:02,716 --> 01:13:04,301
- Just didn't feel right.
- No.

1178
01:13:04,718 --> 01:13:06,637
[Colin] Hard to make that call, but…

1179
01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:10,224
[Noel Hanna] For me it wasn't,
it was just common sense.

1180
01:13:10,307 --> 01:13:13,143
[Colin] I said, "My checklist
of ten things I need

1181
01:13:13,227 --> 01:13:15,854
to safely make an ascent,
I don't have nine of them."

1182
01:13:15,938 --> 01:13:17,523
- [Noel] Yeah, common sense.
- [Colin] Fuck.

1183
01:13:17,606 --> 01:13:18,941
That's what I said to them.

1184
01:13:20,609 --> 01:13:21,693
[climber] This doesn't work.

1185
01:13:21,777 --> 01:13:23,195
[Colin] People were cooked.

1186
01:13:23,862 --> 01:13:25,656
No one had slept or rested properly.

1187
01:13:25,739 --> 01:13:28,867
Bernhard had really bad
frostbite on his toes.

1188
01:13:32,079 --> 01:13:35,249
[Bernhard, in German] The Sherpas said
the feet needed to be amputated.

1189
01:13:36,416 --> 01:13:38,669
In the end, I had three operations,

1190
01:13:39,378 --> 01:13:42,798
it took a very long time
and was incredibly painful.

1191
01:13:43,715 --> 01:13:46,051
All my toes are gone.

1192
01:13:46,134 --> 01:13:48,136
It was really bad.

1193
01:13:51,682 --> 01:13:54,893
[sighs] You can't really describe it.

1194
01:13:57,354 --> 01:13:59,982
[Elia] Everybody was just
trying to get the hell off the mountain.

1195
01:14:01,275 --> 01:14:03,485
You can't make a single mistake,

1196
01:14:03,569 --> 01:14:06,363
but these guys
hadn't had tents to sleep in,

1197
01:14:06,446 --> 01:14:08,407
so they are very tired.

1198
01:14:09,575 --> 01:14:11,410
And so, I'm rappelling.

1199
01:14:11,493 --> 01:14:12,661
I got one hand on the rope,

1200
01:14:12,744 --> 01:14:15,163
I got the other hand
on the base of the rope.

1201
01:14:15,581 --> 01:14:17,541
And all of a sudden,

1202
01:14:18,292 --> 01:14:22,087
a body, a person, flew right over my head

1203
01:14:22,171 --> 01:14:23,672
as I was descending.

1204
01:14:24,423 --> 01:14:28,635
And I turn around,
and just started yelling.

1205
01:14:30,888 --> 01:14:33,056
[Colin] I get down to camp one
and I'm finally, "Okay.

1206
01:14:33,140 --> 01:14:35,559
This is the last section,
this is where Sergi fell."

1207
01:14:36,310 --> 01:14:39,396
As I'm descending down,
I look down and I see,

1208
01:14:39,855 --> 01:14:42,858
unmistakably, Atanas' body,

1209
01:14:43,525 --> 01:14:44,985
sprawled on the snow.

1210
01:14:46,612 --> 01:14:48,572
And he's dead.

1211
01:14:49,489 --> 01:14:53,535
Atanas was a Bulgarian climber,
using the Seven Summits permit.

1212
01:14:53,619 --> 01:14:54,453
[camera bleeps]

1213
01:14:56,997 --> 01:15:00,417
After that night at camp three,
he was exhausted.

1214
01:15:00,501 --> 01:15:02,169
[climber coughs in background]

1215
01:15:04,671 --> 01:15:08,759
[Colin] And exhaustion
can lead to mistakes.

1216
01:15:08,842 --> 01:15:12,012
[climber continues coughing]

1217
01:15:15,599 --> 01:15:19,269
It's-- I don't even know,
but it's a 800- to 2,000-meter fall.

1218
01:15:19,353 --> 01:15:21,230
You cannot survive that.

1219
01:15:21,313 --> 01:15:25,067
So we know it's a recovery, and--

1220
01:15:25,150 --> 01:15:27,402
but the problem is we
have his girlfriend there.

1221
01:15:27,486 --> 01:15:30,072
- [camera bleeps]
- [Arnold] You wanna talk to the Sherpa?

1222
01:15:30,155 --> 01:15:32,449
- He can explain what happened.
- [girlfriend sobbing]

1223
01:15:32,533 --> 01:15:34,243
[Arnold] It was horrible, and…

1224
01:15:35,285 --> 01:15:38,956
you know, when I'm gonna tell her,
everybody's kind of hiding

1225
01:15:39,039 --> 01:15:42,000
and trying to make a post
for social media.

1226
01:15:46,296 --> 01:15:47,923
This is very stressful.

1227
01:15:48,340 --> 01:15:50,342
And it only got worse from that point.

1228
01:15:55,097 --> 01:15:58,225
[Tamara] When I got back to base camp,

1229
01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:03,021
Atanas just fell down,
and it was just chaos.

1230
01:16:03,564 --> 01:16:08,652
I thought, now I just wait JP coming down,
and then just let's go away.

1231
01:16:10,279 --> 01:16:12,239
But the first question was,

1232
01:16:12,322 --> 01:16:16,743
"Do you have news about JP,
and Ali and John and so on?"

1233
01:16:18,495 --> 01:16:23,667
I realized that a bit of tension
was already in their question.

1234
01:16:24,626 --> 01:16:27,087
Base camp for Sajid,
base camp for camp three.

1235
01:16:30,299 --> 01:16:34,428
[Mohammad] I heard from Sajid that
he came from Bottleneck,

1236
01:16:34,511 --> 01:16:37,472
um, around 10am in the morning.

1237
01:16:37,556 --> 01:16:40,225
Like, his regulator was not working well.

1238
01:16:40,309 --> 01:16:42,477
So he came to camp three,

1239
01:16:42,561 --> 01:16:48,317
and John, Ali and J. Pablo,
they went up from Bottleneck.

1240
01:16:49,067 --> 01:16:52,905
We should be realistic,
like, around about…

1241
01:16:52,988 --> 01:16:55,699
well, they should be here,
but it's now late,

1242
01:16:55,782 --> 01:16:58,535
so we are a little bit worried.

1243
01:16:59,661 --> 01:17:01,914
[Colin] I walk over
into the main comms tent,

1244
01:17:01,997 --> 01:17:05,667
and Arnold and Elia,
and a few others are in there,

1245
01:17:05,751 --> 01:17:08,712
and they have a really
worried look on their faces.

1246
01:17:09,338 --> 01:17:14,593
[Arnold] We lose contact with Ali
and JP and Snorri,

1247
01:17:14,676 --> 01:17:17,095
but Sajid is still
in camp three at that moment.

1248
01:17:19,348 --> 01:17:23,018
[in Nepali] If you go outside,
be sure to get ready properly.

1249
01:17:23,101 --> 01:17:24,645
[Elia] Is he coming down,
or what is he doing?

1250
01:17:24,728 --> 01:17:26,522
[in English] He still is waiting up there.

1251
01:17:26,605 --> 01:17:28,857
I mean, as any son would, right?

1252
01:17:28,941 --> 01:17:30,859
There was no way he was going anywhere.

1253
01:17:31,193 --> 01:17:33,487
But he's got this burden
that he's now carrying,

1254
01:17:33,570 --> 01:17:36,281
where he doesn't know
what happened to everyone else.

1255
01:17:36,782 --> 01:17:38,784
[tense music playing]

1256
01:17:40,118 --> 01:17:43,747
The problem was that
the weather was changing.

1257
01:17:44,456 --> 01:17:48,043
From 30-mile-an-hour winds
and minus 50 plus wind chill,

1258
01:17:48,126 --> 01:17:51,380
you know, to 60-, 70-,
80-mile-an-hour winds.

1259
01:17:51,463 --> 01:17:54,842
So it was crucial that Sajid
descend the mountain.

1260
01:17:56,260 --> 01:17:59,596
But he's supposed to just,
like, leave his father?

1261
01:17:59,680 --> 01:18:01,765
Like, there's a pretty…
'Cause what if he could help them?

1262
01:18:01,849 --> 01:18:04,142
What if he could rescue them?
What if they're just right there?

1263
01:18:04,226 --> 01:18:07,646
So there's a bunch of frantic dialogue
back across these radios…

1264
01:18:07,729 --> 01:18:09,022
[Sajid, in English] Base camp. Over.

1265
01:18:09,106 --> 01:18:10,274
Sajid, Sajid.

1266
01:18:10,357 --> 01:18:14,903
…saying, like, "If you don't leave soon,
you're also gonna get stuck up there."

1267
01:18:18,782 --> 01:18:20,784
[wind whistling]

1268
01:18:33,589 --> 01:18:35,591
[indistinct dialogue]

1269
01:18:39,178 --> 01:18:40,053
[Sajid, in English] Thank you.

1270
01:18:42,055 --> 01:18:43,015
[in English] Welcome back.

1271
01:18:44,683 --> 01:18:45,893
[Mohammad] I was scared.

1272
01:18:47,686 --> 01:18:52,399
[speaking Urdu]

1273
01:18:52,482 --> 01:18:54,359
[Sajid sobs]

1274
01:18:55,569 --> 01:19:00,115
- [speaking Urdu]
- [Sajid continues sobbing]

1275
01:19:03,952 --> 01:19:05,412
Sajid!

1276
01:19:09,166 --> 01:19:11,168
[indistinct dialogue]

1277
01:19:12,127 --> 01:19:13,545
[Sajid coughs]

1278
01:19:14,880 --> 01:19:18,592
[dialogue continues indistinctly]

1279
01:19:26,183 --> 01:19:28,852
[Tamara] Sajid came down to base camp.

1280
01:19:31,063 --> 01:19:32,523
I went immediately there.

1281
01:19:32,606 --> 01:19:36,693
And of course he was the one
who saw them the last time.

1282
01:19:36,777 --> 01:19:39,404
So I needed to know.

1283
01:19:39,947 --> 01:19:41,156
[exhales]

1284
01:19:41,240 --> 01:19:43,909
And this was…

1285
01:19:44,576 --> 01:19:46,328
nearly breaking my heart.

1286
01:19:48,622 --> 01:19:50,624
[Tamara coughs]

1287
01:19:52,835 --> 01:19:56,380
[in Urdu] I was exhausted
and I tried to fix the oxygen,

1288
01:19:56,463 --> 01:19:59,925
but there was
a malfunction in the regulator.

1289
01:20:03,303 --> 01:20:07,933
But my father told me,
I couldn't continue climbing.

1290
01:20:08,350 --> 01:20:10,352
[indistinct dialogue]

1291
01:20:11,562 --> 01:20:16,024
[Sajid] So, they continued climbing up
and my last memory

1292
01:20:16,108 --> 01:20:20,070
is seeing them climb up at the Bottleneck.

1293
01:20:20,821 --> 01:20:23,490
[Sajid, in English] I decided
to come back. They are going up,

1294
01:20:23,574 --> 01:20:25,200
going up like this.

1295
01:20:27,035 --> 01:20:29,788
Not coming. I wait, wait, wait, wait.

1296
01:20:30,539 --> 01:20:32,207
All night long.

1297
01:20:32,291 --> 01:20:33,208
Hello?

1298
01:20:34,209 --> 01:20:35,335
Hello?

1299
01:20:36,253 --> 01:20:40,716
[Sajid, in Urdu]
I couldn't tell my mother.

1300
01:20:41,925 --> 01:20:44,386
I just told her
that the search mission is going on.

1301
01:20:49,141 --> 01:20:51,226
[Elia] You know, earlier on, I said,

1302
01:20:52,352 --> 01:20:56,231
you go into these things
hoping something's gonna happen.

1303
01:21:05,616 --> 01:21:07,951
[Elia] What do you remember about John?

1304
01:21:08,035 --> 01:21:09,661
[Sajid, in English] Oh, John,
he was too motivated, yeah.

1305
01:21:09,745 --> 01:21:10,996
He wants summit, yeah.

1306
01:21:11,079 --> 01:21:14,333
And he said
that we can't stop, we do this, yeah.

1307
01:21:14,917 --> 01:21:17,669
- [Elia] And what about your dad?
- Oh, he was too motivated.

1308
01:21:17,753 --> 01:21:19,463
[Elia] Can you say "my father"?

1309
01:21:19,546 --> 01:21:21,131
My father was too motivated.

1310
01:21:21,215 --> 01:21:25,135
Before, he said,
"It's my dream to climb K2 in winter".

1311
01:21:25,219 --> 01:21:27,429
[melancholy music playing]

1312
01:21:27,513 --> 01:21:31,767
But then when Sajid
said something along the lines of,

1313
01:21:31,850 --> 01:21:33,810
"There's no way that they can survive."

1314
01:21:34,978 --> 01:21:37,898
[Elia] Do you have any hope right now,
with the search and rescue?

1315
01:21:37,981 --> 01:21:40,108
[Sajid] No. I know mountains,
I'm also a climber.

1316
01:21:40,192 --> 01:21:42,361
I know the situation up there.

1317
01:21:42,444 --> 01:21:45,781
Now three days, in 8,000, in winter,

1318
01:21:45,864 --> 01:21:48,700
I think there is no hope.
I know this clearly, yeah.

1319
01:21:48,784 --> 01:21:52,162
Because I know the reality
in the mountains.

1320
01:21:52,496 --> 01:21:54,289
No. It's finished, yeah.

1321
01:21:54,373 --> 01:21:55,916
Closed, yeah.

1322
01:21:56,375 --> 01:21:58,377
[helicopter whirring in background]

1323
01:22:02,089 --> 01:22:03,882
[Elia] That was the moment for me,

1324
01:22:03,966 --> 01:22:08,428
where I realized I have gone
overboard, you know,

1325
01:22:08,512 --> 01:22:12,224
to a degree where it's like,
"What am I doing right now?

1326
01:22:13,559 --> 01:22:15,018
This is fucking real.

1327
01:22:15,936 --> 01:22:17,604
Nobody wants a camera around."

1328
01:22:24,695 --> 01:22:27,406
[radio static]

1329
01:22:36,748 --> 01:22:39,459
[Lina] In my mind, he was still alive,

1330
01:22:40,252 --> 01:22:43,797
and when they started to pack up,

1331
01:22:45,424 --> 01:22:49,803
I couldn't imagine John to walk down
and everybody was gone.

1332
01:22:49,887 --> 01:22:51,847
Everything was gone.

1333
01:22:52,764 --> 01:22:58,270
I asked them to leave food,
leave clothes and stuff

1334
01:22:58,353 --> 01:23:01,356
that would be for them, if they come down.

1335
01:23:02,274 --> 01:23:04,276
[indistinct chatter]

1336
01:23:11,825 --> 01:23:14,369
[Mohsin, in Balti] A person is just
sitting at home with his wife

1337
01:23:14,453 --> 01:23:16,830
and then suddenly
he goes up into the air here,

1338
01:23:16,914 --> 01:23:19,124
just to get a little fame.

1339
01:23:19,208 --> 01:23:24,463
Thinking that if I do this,
then good things will happen for me.

1340
01:23:24,546 --> 01:23:27,299
[in Balti] They should have been careful.

1341
01:23:27,382 --> 01:23:28,550
[Mohsin] Yes.

1342
01:23:31,845 --> 01:23:33,847
[melancholy music continues]

1343
01:23:53,242 --> 01:23:57,621
[Lina] But then when everybody
actually left the mountain…

1344
01:24:03,919 --> 01:24:05,128
[sighs]

1345
01:24:07,548 --> 01:24:08,549
[sniffs]

1346
01:24:09,091 --> 01:24:09,925
[exhales]

1347
01:24:10,008 --> 01:24:14,429
[voice breaking] …well, I came
to realize that maybe he was gone.

1348
01:24:15,305 --> 01:24:16,515
[sniffs]

1349
01:24:18,308 --> 01:24:20,644
It was kinda the first time that…

1350
01:24:23,021 --> 01:24:25,107
I knew that…

1351
01:24:25,732 --> 01:24:28,569
maybe he would not return.

1352
01:24:31,822 --> 01:24:33,031
[sighs]

1353
01:24:39,288 --> 01:24:42,332
[Colin] When I look back
and piece together this entire thing,

1354
01:24:43,292 --> 01:24:45,627
you can Monday morning
quarterback it all day.

1355
01:24:46,211 --> 01:24:49,173
But the people that died on this mountain

1356
01:24:49,256 --> 01:24:52,718
were actually the most experienced people.

1357
01:24:56,013 --> 01:25:00,392
There's a reason that, in 2021,
with all the modern equipment

1358
01:25:00,475 --> 01:25:01,727
and forecasts and whatever,

1359
01:25:01,810 --> 01:25:04,354
still no one had stood
on top of this mountain in winter.

1360
01:25:04,438 --> 01:25:06,148
And no one has ever since.

1361
01:25:09,610 --> 01:25:13,238
[Angela] No one goes to a mountain to die.

1362
01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:18,827
People go to a mountain to climb it

1363
01:25:20,704 --> 01:25:22,706
and to tell about it.

1364
01:25:24,958 --> 01:25:26,835
Audiences are interested

1365
01:25:26,919 --> 01:25:30,797
because life and death are the big topics,

1366
01:25:31,381 --> 01:25:33,800
the eternal topics.

1367
01:25:33,884 --> 01:25:34,885
[mouse clicks]

1368
01:25:36,178 --> 01:25:41,558
They want to see mountaineers
put their lives in danger

1369
01:25:42,351 --> 01:25:45,521
on an Instagram post
or on a social media post.

1370
01:25:47,773 --> 01:25:49,691
But in the end…

1371
01:25:50,567 --> 01:25:56,281
this expedition ended
with ten climbers on the summit

1372
01:25:57,449 --> 01:25:58,951
and five dead.

1373
01:26:01,245 --> 01:26:03,038
That is not a good balance.

1374
01:26:10,087 --> 01:26:14,049
[Elia] So, where were you last
when you saw your dad?

1375
01:26:14,132 --> 01:26:16,510
[Sajid] When I last saw, I'm here.

1376
01:26:17,135 --> 01:26:19,972
Yeah, they are here,
there is the fixed rope.

1377
01:26:20,055 --> 01:26:21,056
Okay.

1378
01:26:21,431 --> 01:26:22,724
[Sajid] There, outside.

1379
01:26:29,064 --> 01:26:33,777
[Sajid, in Urdu] I wanted to go to K2
and find out what had happened.

1380
01:26:33,861 --> 01:26:35,988
[soft, mournful music playing]

1381
01:26:38,866 --> 01:26:45,831
As a son, it was my obligation
to find and bury him.

1382
01:26:46,915 --> 01:26:50,210
Is it possible to get the body out
and bring it down?

1383
01:26:50,627 --> 01:26:53,380
[rescue climber, in Urdu]
The face isn't clear.

1384
01:26:53,463 --> 01:26:55,424
Don't upload this to social media, please.

1385
01:26:56,008 --> 01:26:58,010
- [Elia] You okay?
- [Sajid, in English] I'm okay.

1386
01:26:58,468 --> 01:27:01,471
[Elia] No one's gonna put it
on social media. Don't worry.

1387
01:27:08,854 --> 01:27:11,231
[indistinct exclamations]

1388
01:27:11,315 --> 01:27:14,443
[Tamara] JP's mother told me,
when I was there last year,

1389
01:27:15,944 --> 01:27:18,947
"Tamara, if you had these feelings for JP,

1390
01:27:19,907 --> 01:27:23,076
why you didn't tell him to stay down?"

1391
01:27:25,120 --> 01:27:27,497
But I never felt like this.

1392
01:27:29,374 --> 01:27:32,586
The thing I mostly regret, you know,

1393
01:27:32,669 --> 01:27:37,132
is that I didn't give him a big hug

1394
01:27:37,216 --> 01:27:39,092
and, you know…

1395
01:27:40,928 --> 01:27:42,596
a real goodbye.

1396
01:28:02,533 --> 01:28:06,328
[Lina] I was sent a photo of him and…

1397
01:28:07,371 --> 01:28:13,627
it kind of helped me
to go to him in my head,

1398
01:28:13,710 --> 01:28:18,215
and hug him and say, "It's okay."

1399
01:28:18,298 --> 01:28:19,591
You know?

1400
01:28:20,926 --> 01:28:21,885
[gasps]

1401
01:28:23,303 --> 01:28:27,683
[voice breaking] Just to tell him
I forgive him that he will not come home.

1402
01:28:29,977 --> 01:28:33,689
And I will take care
of our children and…

1403
01:28:42,072 --> 01:28:44,992
[Sajid breathing heavily]

1404
01:28:53,000 --> 01:28:56,295
[Sajid sobs]

1405
01:28:58,672 --> 01:29:01,008
[Sajid] We found the bodies,
and we realized

1406
01:29:01,091 --> 01:29:03,802
that they got stuck in the storm.

1407
01:29:03,886 --> 01:29:05,804
[Sajid, on mountain] Ya Allahu Akbar.

1408
01:29:05,888 --> 01:29:08,599
[Sajid] We didn't find any evidence
that they summit.

1409
01:29:08,682 --> 01:29:09,975
[Sajid sniffs]

1410
01:29:10,058 --> 01:29:12,394
But summit or not summit?

1411
01:29:13,061 --> 01:29:15,189
It's not matter for me.

1412
01:29:16,106 --> 01:29:18,192
They are no more.

1413
01:29:22,821 --> 01:29:28,493
Dying there is not that easy,
it's one of the hardest deaths.

1414
01:29:28,577 --> 01:29:31,413
It's hard to believe.
It's one of the hardest.

1415
01:29:31,496 --> 01:29:34,082
If someone die in an accident,
fell down…

1416
01:29:34,166 --> 01:29:37,211
it's over in a few seconds.

1417
01:29:37,294 --> 01:29:42,341
But stuck in the storm
and someone freezing there,

1418
01:29:42,424 --> 01:29:45,093
it's not that easy.

1419
01:29:46,345 --> 01:29:48,347
[mournful music continues]

1420
01:29:54,061 --> 01:29:57,481
[in Urdu] I won't say
that the Nepalis betrayed us.

1421
01:29:57,564 --> 01:30:03,987
But still, if they had told us,
we could all have done it together.

1422
01:30:08,575 --> 01:30:11,203
[Gelje, in Nepali] Ali was
a really good friend of mine.

1423
01:30:12,913 --> 01:30:17,042
What some said was

1424
01:30:17,125 --> 01:30:19,127
that we cut the rope at the top.

1425
01:30:19,837 --> 01:30:24,883
And took the rope away, once we cut it.

1426
01:30:24,967 --> 01:30:28,178
Those were the rumors that were spreading.

1427
01:30:28,262 --> 01:30:31,390
It made me sad.

1428
01:30:31,473 --> 01:30:35,894
Because I am a Sherpa,
of Buddhist religion.

1429
01:30:37,646 --> 01:30:40,148
But sometimes,
Nimsdai is the kind of person

1430
01:30:40,232 --> 01:30:42,943
who says things in the moment
without thinking much.

1431
01:30:47,656 --> 01:30:49,032
[Elia] Yeah. I mean for me,

1432
01:30:49,116 --> 01:30:51,577
part of why I wanted to go back
in the summer

1433
01:30:51,660 --> 01:30:55,539
was because of the allegation
that Nims cut the ropes.

1434
01:30:57,332 --> 01:30:59,543
Well, we photographed the ropes up there.

1435
01:31:00,169 --> 01:31:01,670
There was no foul play.

1436
01:31:03,797 --> 01:31:10,179
[in English] Uh, last winter we gave
700-meter rope, this rope, to the Sherpas

1437
01:31:10,262 --> 01:31:13,599
to fix, especially Bottleneck
and for summit push.

1438
01:31:13,682 --> 01:31:17,603
But now I went till summit
and there's many, many ropes

1439
01:31:17,686 --> 01:31:20,063
are fixed and anchored.

1440
01:31:20,606 --> 01:31:25,152
So there is no rope cut from Sherpas.
This is fake news.

1441
01:31:25,652 --> 01:31:28,447
[soulful cello music playing]

1442
01:31:31,575 --> 01:31:35,746
[Elia] So, I think it's fair to say
that Nims said what he said

1443
01:31:35,829 --> 01:31:39,750
without actually having the intention
of cutting the ropes.

1444
01:31:48,592 --> 01:31:50,844
But the tents at camp three, you know,

1445
01:31:50,928 --> 01:31:53,263
this for me,
I mean, that was the sticking point.

1446
01:31:56,850 --> 01:31:59,937
Had this catastrophe not have unfolded
the way that it unfolded,

1447
01:32:00,020 --> 01:32:01,813
with all the commercial climbers,

1448
01:32:02,856 --> 01:32:05,692
and had John, Ali and Juan Pablo

1449
01:32:05,776 --> 01:32:09,112
actually been able to get warm,
to mentally prepare, and to sleep,

1450
01:32:09,613 --> 01:32:11,698
they would have summited
that mountain safely,

1451
01:32:11,782 --> 01:32:14,743
and descended safely,
and they would still be alive today.

1452
01:32:18,664 --> 01:32:21,875
You know, there is a trail of negligence.

1453
01:32:24,127 --> 01:32:26,129
And it starts with Seven Summits.

1454
01:32:29,633 --> 01:32:31,677
[Arnold] Well,
I can understand his thinking.

1455
01:32:31,760 --> 01:32:35,889
Of course, if you have a bad night,
the next morning, the risks are higher.

1456
01:32:36,515 --> 01:32:40,143
Uh, but that doesn't mean
you have to continue

1457
01:32:40,227 --> 01:32:42,688
for your summit push,
you know, no matter what.

1458
01:32:42,771 --> 01:32:44,273
That's not our call.

1459
01:32:44,356 --> 01:32:49,194
We didn't send Ali up,
actually, we did the opposite.

1460
01:32:49,278 --> 01:32:53,156
We tried to convince him
that maybe it's not a good time now.

1461
01:32:54,366 --> 01:32:57,411
But the army generals show up in base camp

1462
01:32:57,494 --> 01:33:01,957
and then came the guy who makes
the documentary about him,

1463
01:33:03,417 --> 01:33:07,796
and it put a tremendous amount
of pressure on Ali, especially.

1464
01:33:09,256 --> 01:33:11,258
When I think about it now,

1465
01:33:11,341 --> 01:33:14,136
this was a very strange expedition

1466
01:33:14,219 --> 01:33:17,181
and I learnt a lot
about fame or something.

1467
01:33:17,264 --> 01:33:18,807
Are we all happy?

1468
01:33:18,891 --> 01:33:23,562
[Arnold] For example, the idea was
to give Nepal a moment of fame,

1469
01:33:23,645 --> 01:33:25,814
but Nims, actually, got in the spotlight,

1470
01:33:25,898 --> 01:33:28,317
and all the other people
are kind of forgotten.

1471
01:33:29,276 --> 01:33:31,278
[crowd clamoring]

1472
01:33:32,529 --> 01:33:36,450
[Arnold] At the end, it's only the people
who have the money and power

1473
01:33:36,533 --> 01:33:40,120
that really benefit from this achievement.

1474
01:33:40,204 --> 01:33:43,498
And the guys who don't speak good English

1475
01:33:43,582 --> 01:33:46,543
and cannot express themselves
in the media that good,

1476
01:33:46,627 --> 01:33:48,670
they didn't get anything from that.

1477
01:33:48,754 --> 01:33:51,340
They're just still
the same climbing Sherpa

1478
01:33:51,423 --> 01:33:52,799
what they were before.

1479
01:34:01,099 --> 01:34:03,268
[Sajid, in Urdu] We have a legacy

1480
01:34:03,352 --> 01:34:08,273
and the Sadparas
are famous for mountaineering.

1481
01:34:25,290 --> 01:34:30,379
[recites prayer]

1482
01:34:30,462 --> 01:34:35,092
[Sajid, in Urdu] All things considered,
I am wondering about mountaineering.

1483
01:34:35,175 --> 01:34:39,805
I am thinking about whether I should
continue this profession or not.

1484
01:34:46,854 --> 01:34:51,358
But Father loved
the mountains his entire life

1485
01:34:51,441 --> 01:34:57,114
and he died with them.

1486
01:35:00,826 --> 01:35:07,374
He is in the mountains now
and will forever stay there.

1487
01:35:17,467 --> 01:35:19,469
[music fades]

1488
01:35:21,722 --> 01:35:23,932
[wind whistling]

1489
01:35:38,906 --> 01:35:41,825
[rhythmic instrumental music playing]