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60600||63200||Mount Everest...|| 63700||67200||Twenty-nine thousand feet...|| 67200||72800||The highest point on Earth...|| 73000||75100||Captivating and deadly.|| 76800||79700||In the 1920s,~to conquer this mountain|| 79700||84100||was the greatest challenge remaining~in a golden age of adventure.|| 87500||90700||Everest was the edge of heaven,|| 90700||94600||where many believed~no human could survive.|| 96700||99000||But not George Mallory.|| 122000||128200||"Everest is the last~great conquest for man...|| 128200||130900||The Wildest Dream."|| 145500||149800||George Mallory dreamed of being~the first man to climb Everest.|| 149900||153100||On June 8, 1924,|| 153100||156600||dressed in gabardine~and hobnailed boots,|| 156600||159500||he and his fellow climber,~Sandy Irvine,|| 159600||162900||were last seen~800 feet below the summit.|| 166800||170300||Then the clouds rolled in...|| 170500||172900||They were never seen alive again.|| 176000||182000||Many believed that almost 30 years~before Everest was officially conquered,|| 182100||186800||George Mallory was the first man~to set foot on the top of the world.|| 212100||216000||Seventy-five years after~Mallory and Irvine vanished,|| 216000||219800||mountaineer Conrad Anker~took part in an expedition|| 219900||222800||looking for their bodies~high on Everest.|| 225600||227300||Conrad, come in please.|| 228900||232100||I'm down at 26,7 - over.|| 233600||235200||Anker struck off on his own.|| 236600||238700||Conrad, you're way below~the search zone.|| 238700||240000||You need to be higher - over.|| 241600||243200||I was curious.|| 243300||246600||I stopped, turned around...|| 246600||249800||and there was a patch of white.|| 249900||253100||It wasn't snow; it was matte -|| 253200||258400||a light-absorbing color, like marble.|| 270200||276100||As I got closer,~I realized this was the body|| 276200||278800||of one of the pioneering~English climbers,|| 278800||281100||frozen onto the mountainside.|| 286700||289100||For a moment I thought...|| 289200||293900||maybe I can just keep walking~and keep it to myself.|| 298700||302300||But then,~that's what we were there for.|| 307300||310000||Group Meeting.|| 310100||313000||Mandatory group meeting - over.|| 337300||340100||Here, wait!~This is George Mallory!|| 341000||343900||Oh, my God!~Oh, my God!|| 344800||347200||You see that?~George Mallory.|| 347200||349100||Oh, my God!|| 367000||368500||George Mallory and I -|| 368700||374400||our two paths have intersected~75 years apart.|| 380300||387300||My aunt called me and said~in a rather small voice on the phone:|| 387400||392800||"Suzie, they've found~my father's body on Mount Everest."|| 392800||394900||I was amazed,|| 394900||396500||I was absolutely shocked.|| 398000||401000||It was very powerful to know|| 401100||406000||where my grandfather was~and how he died.|| 409100||413500||He had a compound fracture~of his right leg, above the ankle -|| 413800||416400||fatal on Everest.|| 416400||420000||His arms were outstretched~as if he had tried|| 420100||422900||to dig his fingers~into the side of the mountain.|| 425800||428300||He was last seen up on the ridge,|| 428300||431000||heading west for the summit.|| 431100||434000||But I found him far to the east.|| 434100||436400||So Mallory was on his way back,|| 436400||439600||maybe returning~from the summit itself.|| 450100||453900||His sun goggles,~vital against the glare from the snow,|| 454000||455600||were in his pocket.|| 455800||458100||So it must have been getting dark.|| 464200||468500||He and Irvine were tied together~by a thin cotton rope.|| 477300||482600||They were tired, absolutely beat,~no energy left,|| 482800||484900||minds not functioning clearly.|| 525400||529100||Mallory crossed his left leg~over the broken one|| 529200||531300||to ease the pain.|| 533300||536000||It was a matter of minutes,|| 536000||539000||a half hour at the very most,|| 539000||541100||before he died.|| 553500||555700||Did Mallory reach the summit|| 555900||560100||almost three decades~before the first official climb?|| 564900||569400||We discovered~many things on his body...|| 569500||575200||Documents and letters~perfectly preserved 75 years later.|| 575200||580400||His wristwatch,~rusted in at 10 after 5.|| 580500||584700||The goggles that were~inside of his vest.|| 585000||589500||An altimeter - the face broken~and the hands missing.|| 591300||594500||But one very significant item~was missing:|| 594600||597200||The photo of his wife Ruth,|| 597200||599500||which he'd promised~to leave on the summit.|| 602300||603700||Was the photo missing|| 604000||607200||because Mallory had~reached the summit and placed it there -|| 607200||610200||the ultimate tribute to his love of Ruth?|| 616200||620000||He was last seen~about 800 feet below the summit,|| 620100||623400||near the notoriously difficult~Second Step.|| 628100||631600||If Mallory was able~to make it to the summit in 1924,|| 631700||635800||he and Irvine would have had~to have climbed this overhanging cliff|| 636000||637700||at about 28,000 feet.|| 640300||644600||There's never been a confirmed~free climb of the Second Step.|| 644700||646400||Everyone who climbs it today|| 646400||649100||uses a metal ladder~bolted to the rock|| 649100||652100||by Chinese climbers in 1975.|| 654300||656500||I want to go back to Everest|| 656600||659800||to try and climb~the Second Step,|| 660000||663400||under the very same conditions~Mallory faced.|| 665700||670700||It was a pure cliff~when Mallory and Irvine approached it.|| 670700||672800||No one had ever been there.|| 673000||676700||It would have been~an incredible feat of climbing|| 676700||678800||if they had pulled that off.|| 685200||688800||Adventure, risk...|| 689100||691400||There are some people~that thrive on it,|| 691400||692800||that seek it out,|| 693100||695500||they want to~push their own limits.|| 699100||701300||Mallory is one of those people.|| 709100||711800||Mallory grew up in Cheshire,~Northern England.|| 713500||718200||He made his first fateful climb~in Mobberley, his home village.|| 721800||725300||Mallory's father was a vicar~here at this church.|| 729400||732400||And it was here that~the young boy escaped|| 732400||738300||and climbed to the top~of the church - age seven.|| 738400||740900||You can imagine that...|| 742400||747900||Finding climbing,~it's his true passion in life.|| 770300||772800||I actually think that~some people who climb|| 772800||776200||are wired a little differently~from the rest of us.|| 776300||779800||My grandfather really didn't~feel fear of heights|| 779800||784900||or precipices or anything like that.|| 785200||790700||He had a way of climbing that was~not quite like everyone else's.|| 790800||793800||His arms and legs would~just sort of eat up a mountain|| 793900||797700||and he would start~flowing over it like a wave.|| 802600||806500||Aged 19, Mallory entered~the University of Cambridge|| 806600||809600||at a time of great cultural upheaval.|| 812600||815400||When Mallory arrived~in Cambridge in 1905|| 815500||818900||he pitched into this ferment~and bubble of ideas,|| 819200||823800||excitement, intellectual,~sexual, social, secret societies.|| 825800||829000||He obviously possessed~some remarkable charisma,|| 829200||832300||sort of charmed presence~that drew the eye,|| 832300||834200||compelled the gaze.|| 838200||842400||"My mind is in a state~of constant rebellion.|| 842500||844900||I believe that will always be so."|| 846200||849800||He was a dreamer...|| 849900||855300||And he was in Cambridge at a time~of great and powerful dreaming.|| 855400||859300||And eventually that dream~took its form in the shape of Everest.|| 863600||866900||This was the golden age of exploration.|| 866900||869000||Mallory watched~with the rest of the world|| 869200||872400||as explorers from America,~Norway, and Britain|| 872400||875900||raced first to the North~and then the South Pole.|| 879200||884400||In 1912, Captain Scott,~the legendary British adventurer,|| 884500||888400||died in the attempt~to be the first to the South Pole.|| 888400||891800||Mallory was among those~inspired by the tragedy.|| 893300||895900||Britain is at the waning~of the empire at this time.|| 896000||898800||It is looking for ways~to reinvigorate itself.|| 898800||904000||So attention inevitably turns~to Everest as the final possibility -|| 904300||905600||The Third Pole.|| 908800||913600||Surveyors had calculated that Everest~was the highest mountain in the world.|| 913700||917400||But no Westerner had~ever been within 40 miles.|| 919300||923400||Mallory became obsessed~by a mountain he'd never even seen.|| 925500||928700||"Everest is the highest mountain~in the world.|| 928700||932300||No man has reached its summit.|| 932400||937500||"Its existence is a challenge~to man's desire to conquer the universe."|| 945800||949400||Mallory wasn't just~enthralled with Everest...|| 952300||956800||He had also fallen in love~with 21-year-old Ruth Turner.|| 959400||962800||Right from the start,~they wrote each other adoring letters.|| 964900||966600||"My darling,"|| 966700||969000||I'm longing for you.|| 969000||972600||I would kiss your lips~and look into your eyes|| 972600||977000||and you, you,~you all near me and with me,|| 977000||981300||"strong and glorious~and loving and laughing."|| 982900||986000||"I cannot find words~that would be sure|| 986100||988600||to convey what I feel about you.|| 988700||991100||What I really want~is to know you|| 991100||994600||and to love you more and more.|| 994600||998000||"Dearest and most beloved,~your loving Ruth."|| 999500||1005400||George and my grandmother Ruth~fell madly in love in 1914.|| 1005400||1006900||They were both idealists,|| 1006900||1010500||really seeing kindred spirits~in each other.|| 1010500||1015900||They were married three days~before the start of World War I.|| 1018900||1021800||Mallory enlisted~and came face to face|| 1021800||1023600||with death once more,|| 1023700||1025100||fighting in the Somme,|| 1025400||1027600||the bloodiest battle~known to man.|| 1031800||1034800||"There is no reckoning~with death here.|| 1034800||1038500||Life presents itself~very much to me as a gift."|| 1040100||1044200||Mallory had witnessed~the mass slaughter of the first World War.|| 1044400||1047800||His fellow soldiers,~some of them six feet away,|| 1047800||1050200||killed by German shelling.|| 1050400||1053000||He knew how fragile life was.|| 1053000||1056900||And knowing this,~he wanted to live it to the fullest.|| 1057000||1059900||He wanted the ultimate challenge.|| 1060000||1063600||And that, in the 20s,~was Mount Everest.|| 1066600||1068200||Once the war was over,|| 1068400||1070900||the Royal Geographical Society~in London|| 1071000||1074600||planned the first-ever~expedition to Everest.|| 1077400||1081100||They needed Mallory~for his supreme climbing skills;|| 1081200||1085100||He needed their backing~to realize his obsession.|| 1091600||1096000||When Mallory undertook~that first expedition in 1921,|| 1096000||1100600||he had to approach Everest~through Tibet from the north.|| 1100600||1104800||The Nepalese refused to allow~access to the easier south side|| 1104800||1109200||used when Everest was first~officially climbed in 1953.|| 1111000||1113600||After an eight-week journey,|| 1113600||1116000||Mallory finally set eyes~on the mountain|| 1116000||1118100||that had haunted him for so long.|| 1121000||1126600||"Like the wildest creation of a dream -~Everest!"|| 1126600||1129000||A rugged giant...|| 1129100||1132100||A prodigious white fang...|| 1132200||1135600||A colossal rock plastered with snow.|| 1135600||1137900||From the mountaineer's point of view,|| 1138000||1141200||"no more appalling sight~could be imagined."|| 1142900||1144700||When he first saw Everest,|| 1144700||1147900||he describes it~really almost as an adversary.|| 1147900||1151600||It's very beautiful,~but also ugly or frightful,|| 1151700||1153600||like an ogre.|| 1158700||1160000||There were no maps.|| 1160100||1162100||No one knew the terrain there.|| 1162100||1166200||And this first trip, the trip of 1921,|| 1166200||1169800||it was imperative~that the team find the route|| 1169800||1171500||that would lead them~to the summit.|| 1181500||1184000||For months, Mallory led the search,|| 1184100||1187000||but the route~to the summit eluded him.|| 1192700||1196900||Finally, late in August,~he found what he was looking for...|| 1209100||1212700||An enormous glacial valley~that snaked for miles|| 1212700||1217200||around the other giant peaks~towards the very foot of Everest.|| 1229600||1231100||"My dearest Ruth,|| 1231100||1234200||We have found our way~to the great mountain."|| 1240600||1246400||At the end of the valley was a wall~of snow and ice 1,000 feet high.|| 1246600||1250800||It led up to a crest~that Mallory named 'The North Col. '|| 1257200||1259600||And then on to the top of the world.|| 1264000||1267900||"We have established~our way to the summit|| 1267900||1271400||for anyone who cares to try~the highest adventure."|| 1280900||1284400||But the heavy snow that comes~with the monsoon each summer|| 1284700||1287400||quickly made climbing impossible.|| 1287700||1289000||They had to head home.|| 1295100||1299900||But within six months,~Mallory was back again...|| 1299900||1304200||this time with film cameras,~to show Everest to the world.|| 1309700||1312800||He climbed higher~than anyone else before him.|| 1319700||1321100||But late in the season,|| 1321100||1325000||as Mallory led porters up the mountain,~disaster struck.|| 1327400||1330100||A great snowfall had come.|| 1330200||1334800||They got to a delicate place~on this massive ice slope|| 1334800||1336300||and triggered an avalanche.|| 1355100||1357200||"My dearest Ruth,"|| 1357300||1360200||Seven brave men killed...|| 1360200||1363000||and I am to blame.|| 1363000||1365300||It has happened forever|| 1365300||1368400||"and I can do nothing~to make it good."|| 1372100||1375500||After the avalanche,~when George returned to Europe,|| 1375700||1378400||he really had no wish~to go back to Everest.|| 1378400||1380400||He just wanted to get away|| 1380400||1382200||from the deprivation~and the danger,|| 1382300||1384100||and also the memories~of that avalanche.|| 1391200||1394100||He had been away~for a very long period|| 1394200||1395900||over two successive years.|| 1395900||1398300||He wanted to get back~to his wife and his family.|| 1404000||1406300||They had three children.|| 1406300||1410400||My mother was the~second daughter of George Mallory.|| 1410400||1414500||And at this point, I think,~he was really starting|| 1414500||1418500||to think about wanting~to be home more,|| 1418800||1420900||to be with Ruth more,|| 1421000||1425000||and to address himself~to raising the kids.|| 1430500||1433400||But a new expedition~was being planned...|| 1436300||1440200||And Mallory desperately~wanted to be part of it -|| 1440200||1442300||against Ruth's wishes.|| 1443400||1446100||"I love you and you love me,"|| 1446100||1449200||and that ought to be~happiness enough for a lifetime.|| 1449300||1451300||But I do want you.|| 1451400||1454100||We want to live together~all the time|| 1454200||1458300||and share thoughts~and joys and sorrows.|| 1458400||1462100||"And we can't apart~as we can together."|| 1463300||1467300||"I am having a horrible time,~on a tightrope."|| 1467400||1469500||It would be~an awful tug going away|| 1469600||1473000||instead of settling down~here with Ruth.|| 1473000||1475600||But it would look rather grim~to see others,|| 1475800||1478500||"without me,~conquering the summit."|| 1484200||1486900||Mallory clearly loved Ruth very dearly.|| 1486900||1491000||She was his sweet, domestic,~beloved partner|| 1491100||1494400||who represented all that was~appealing about home, family,|| 1494400||1497000||the flatlands of Cambridge,~at sea level.|| 1499500||1502400||But Everest represented~all that was exciting,|| 1502500||1504600||adventurous, visionary, mystical.|| 1507100||1510000||His personality was pulled~between those two poles.|| 1518300||1522100||Early in 1923,~the crisis came to a head|| 1522200||1527100||when Mallory sailed to America~to speak about his Everest adventures.|| 1531200||1535300||He was the star turn at the~Explorers Club in New York.|| 1536900||1542200||I can just imagine the audience~on the edge of their seats|| 1542200||1546300||as Mallory told them~about the biting wind,|| 1546300||1551300||the lack of appetite,~the fierce cold.|| 1553900||1557000||A New York Times journalist~asked the question,|| 1557100||1560200||"Why climb Everest?"|| 1560300||1563200||Mallory gave his legendary reply...|| 1566200||1570300||"Because it's there."|| 1577100||1581400||Three words that have probably become~more famous than Mallory himself,|| 1581500||1585600||suggests a sort of fatalism~bubbling away in Mallory.|| 1585600||1589200||The mountain remains,~it's unclimbed,|| 1589200||1592600||and so the quest remains.|| 1592600||1595600||And he is the man~who is locked into|| 1595600||1598400||this almost fairytale relationship~with the mountain.|| 1598400||1602500||He's been twice and he must~go back for the third time.|| 1608200||1612400||I think that the idea that someone else~would build on his progress|| 1612400||1616500||and get to the summit on his shoulders~was quite difficult for him to accept.|| 1616500||1620100||It was, after all, his route~and his mountain.|| 1620200||1624100||It is actually a surprisingly selfish thing~for someone like Mallory to experience.|| 1624200||1628200||But then mountaineers all do have this~kind of element of selfishness deep down.|| 1635000||1636800||Aged 38,|| 1637000||1639600||this was Mallory's last chance~to conquer the mountain.|| 1658100||1661100||Conrad Anker~will follow Mallory's footsteps,|| 1661200||1663500||leading his own expedition~to Everest|| 1663600||1665100||and the Second Step.|| 1669700||1673700||During his climb,~Conrad plans to test clothes and boots|| 1673700||1676400||modeled on those he found~on Mallory's body.|| 1681200||1683700||Using this replica clothing,|| 1683700||1686300||I'm going to have this chance~to go back and see|| 1686300||1690400||what it was like for Mallory~to try climbing Everest in 1924.|| 1696500||1699200||But like Mallory,~Conrad is torn between|| 1699200||1702200||his passion for Everest~and his love for his family.|| 1703600||1706400||My family's~anxious about this trip.|| 1706400||1708800||I'm going to Everest...|| 1709100||1711300||It's a deadly mountain.|| 1711400||1712800||What's it worth?|| 1713100||1715400||Is it worth~leaving your kids behind?|| 1715500||1717600||Why are you going~to this mountain?|| 1717600||1719600||Are you going to be safe?|| 1719700||1721800||You know I love you.|| 1722100||1723700||And I can see there,|| 1723800||1726700||as I was trying to rationalize it~to my wife and children|| 1726700||1729900||that it's a safe thing~and it's a fine thing to go on Everest|| 1730100||1731500||and it's a noble thing,|| 1731500||1735500||that these were the same answers~Mallory had for Ruth.|| 1737100||1741200||I know what it's like to be~the wife of a climber.|| 1741200||1743400||And I know what it's like to be|| 1743400||1745500||the wife of a climber~who doesn't come home.|| 1748200||1750100||Jennifer was previously married|| 1750200||1754300||to one of America's~finest mountaineers, Alex Lowe,|| 1754300||1757500||Conrad's climbing partner~and closest friend.|| 1760300||1763400||Just a few months~after finding Mallory's body,|| 1763400||1767500||Conrad was climbing with Alex~when the mountains claimed another life.|| 1769300||1771200||An avalanche struck Alex and I|| 1771300||1773500||as we were climbing~in the Himalayas.|| 1773500||1777400||He died and I was~three feet away from him.|| 1780400||1784600||You could look at him~and tell that he was burdened|| 1784700||1788400||with this world of guilt and grief,|| 1788400||1792300||that somehow he could have~prevented Alex's death.|| 1795900||1798300||In the aftermath of this tragedy,|| 1798300||1799900||we communicated with each other|| 1799900||1803900||and eventually~we grew to fall in love.|| 1803900||1806900||It wasn't just Jennifer~that my love grew for,|| 1807200||1808800||it was also the boys.|| 1810500||1814300||Jennifer must really like climbers~to willingly bring me into her life|| 1814300||1816800||and then marry~and have me adopt the boys,|| 1816800||1819800||because she knows~it's downright dangerous work.|| 1822700||1825900||Boys, look what I found downstairs.|| 1825900||1829700||- Wow!~- Good God!|| 1830500||1832200||Is this my Halloween costume|| 1832300||1834600||or is this what~I'm going up Everest in?|| 1834700||1837400||- You guys are laughing.~- You look like Inspector Gadget.|| 1837500||1839000||You're supposed to take me serious.|| 1839200||1840600||Mom can appreciate it.|| 1840600||1842500||It's amazing to think of those guys|| 1842500||1845200||going for the summit~in clothing like that.|| 1847300||1849400||Would you climb Everest in that suit?|| 1849400||1851700||- No.~- What would you wear?|| 1851800||1853700||I wouldn't climb Everest.|| 1872300||1874200||Before climbing Everest,|| 1874300||1877900||Mallory had to choose~his climbing partner.|| 1877900||1882700||Among the candidates was~a 21-year-old chemistry student,|| 1882800||1887000||Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine -~a mountaineering novice.|| 1890300||1892800||My great uncle Sandy Irvine~took life by the horns,|| 1892800||1895400||and if there was an opportunity~that presented itself to him|| 1895500||1896900||he would take it.|| 1896900||1899400||He loved the theater,~he loved cars,|| 1899400||1901300||and above all he loved women.|| 1901300||1903600||And he had this~very indiscreet love affair|| 1903700||1906600||with his~best friend's step-mother.|| 1906700||1909400||It was a terrible scandal.|| 1912700||1917000||But Sandy Irvine was first~and foremost an oarsman.|| 1917300||1920300||And when he got to Oxford~he was selected to take part|| 1920300||1922500||in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.|| 1924600||1928500||The annual boat race was the most~prestigious sporting event of the day.|| 1937600||1939100||They were victorious.|| 1939300||1941500||And what Mallory saw in Sandy|| 1941600||1944800||was this extraordinary ability~that great oarsmen have,|| 1944800||1946800||which is to row through pain,|| 1946900||1951800||to push himself almost beyond~normal human limit.|| 1953900||1957100||But there was another reason~for choosing Irvine.|| 1957300||1959100||Mallory needed someone technical|| 1959300||1963300||to master the oxygen equipment~vital at high altitude.|| 1963400||1966600||And unlike Mallory,~Irvine was very practical.|| 1967900||1970600||Sandy asked the~Mount Everest committee|| 1970600||1974400||to send him a 1922 set,~plus the drawings.|| 1974500||1977600||And he spent hours and hours~in his rooms in Oxford|| 1977600||1979800||trying to make it serviceable,|| 1979900||1983800||trying to make it lighter,~stronger and less fragile,|| 1983900||1988000||so that the climbers could~use it with greater confidence.|| 1988000||1992500||And so the fact that Sandy was~so practical with the apparatus,|| 1992500||1994900||I think, made it quite clear~in Mallory's mind|| 1994900||1997900||that he was a useful man~to have climbing with him.|| 2006800||2008900||Conrad Anker has also chosen|| 2008900||2012900||a young Englishman~as his climbing partner - Leo Houlding.|| 2012900||2017000||Like Irvine, Leo is young,~strong, a natural athlete|| 2017100||2019400||and has never climbed~at high altitude.|| 2020800||2023000||The 90-feet high Second Step|| 2023100||2025800||will be a dangerous venture~into the unknown.|| 2031400||2033100||I'm definitely concerned~about the altitude|| 2033100||2034800||and the acclimatization process,|| 2034800||2037600||just because I've never~been high enough before|| 2037700||2039200||to know whether, you know,|| 2039400||2042200||I might be one of those people~that it doesn't gel with.|| 2045700||2047500||I don't want to let Conrad down|| 2047500||2049900||and I'm sure Irvine~felt some of that pressure.|| 2090900||2095800||Leo's never been to altitude,~this unknown.|| 2095900||2100200||And you can't walk into~a hospital and take a test|| 2100500||2103800||that will come back and say,~oh, you'll do well at altitude.|| 2103900||2105200||Some people do really well.|| 2105500||2107100||But I've seen fit people|| 2107100||2109800||doubled over~and with splitting headaches.|| 2117100||2120700||Being invited to climb the highest~mountain in the world with Conrad,|| 2120800||2123000||one of the best climbers~in his generation,|| 2123000||2124900||is such a privilege.|| 2125000||2128300||For Irvine, being invited~to climb with George Mallory,|| 2128500||2131500||the best climber of his generation,~on the unclimbed Mount Everest -|| 2131600||2133500||I just can't imagine~how he must have felt.|| 2135000||2139600||"I am walking on metaphorical air."|| 2139600||2144000||We shall go all out for the summit.|| 2144000||2148700||If I have to die,~then there would be no finer death|| 2148800||2151600||"than in an attempt to conquer Everest."|| 2155200||2160700||On February 29, 1924,~Mallory set sail from Liverpool,|| 2160800||2163300||after making Ruth~a solemn promise.|| 2164500||2167300||As my grandfather~was leaving England|| 2167500||2169300||and leaving my grandmother,|| 2169500||2173700||he told her that he would leave~a photograph of her|| 2173700||2176700||at the top of Mount Everest.|| 2176700||2180600||And I think he was pretty confident~that he would get there|| 2180700||2183600||and that he would~leave that photograph.|| 2186900||2189100||With the eyes of the world upon them,|| 2189100||2193100||Mallory and Irvine set out~on the three-week voyage for India.|| 2206900||2211900||Late that March, their convoy~began its 350-mile trek.|| 2228900||2231400||Five thousand miles apart,|| 2231600||2235400||Mallory and Ruth~wrote to each other frequently.|| 2235600||2238700||Couriers carried their letters~across the world,|| 2238700||2241600||and after the months of tension~they had gone through,|| 2241600||2243300||he and Ruth made up.|| 2244600||2248000||"I do miss you a lot."|| 2248000||2252600||I know I have rather often~been cross and not nice,|| 2252700||2254800||and I am very sorry.|| 2254900||2258000||I was unhappy~at getting so little of you.|| 2258000||2261800||Very, very much love~to you, my dear one,|| 2261800||2263600||"Your loving Ruth."|| 2267800||2269600||"Dearest one,"|| 2269700||2273000||We went through a difficult~time together in the autumn.|| 2273000||2276300||Your letters bring you much nearer.|| 2276300||2278900||"I wish I had you with me."|| 2281000||2284900||We can think of the relationship~between Mallory, Everest and Ruth|| 2284900||2286800||as a kind of love triangle.|| 2286900||2290200||When he was at home with Ruth~he was dreaming of Everest.|| 2290200||2292900||When he was away with~Everest he was dreaming of Ruth -|| 2292900||2296400||until a certain point, until he got~sufficiently close to the mountain|| 2296700||2299000||that it cast its spell over him.|| 2315800||2319800||The convoy of 300 pack animals~and 70 porters|| 2319900||2322200||journeyed through Tibet.|| 2323800||2328200||Provisions included four cases~of Montebello Champagne|| 2328200||2331200||and 60 tins of quail and foie gras.|| 2334300||2338200||On April 25th, 17,000 feet up,|| 2338300||2341300||they reached the last pass~before Everest -|| 2341400||2342900||Pang La.|| 2353900||2355100||The Pang-La is the pass|| 2355200||2358200||where you get the first~stunning view of Everest, right?|| 2358300||2360200||Yeah, and it's this vista.|| 2360200||2363200||You've got five of the world's~highest peaks in one view.|| 2378300||2379900||That's Everest.|| 2384000||2385100||Wow.|| 2392000||2395000||It's so much bigger~than all the other ones, isn't it?|| 2395100||2396300||Yeah.|| 2397900||2401400||It's really special that we haven't~had any sign of the mountain,|| 2401400||2403400||and then you drive up~to this high pass|| 2403400||2406900||and then she just~reveals herself in all her glory...|| 2407000||2409300||you know, Chomolungma,~Mother Goddess of the Earth,|| 2409400||2411000||the mountain we call Everest.|| 2411000||2412500||Just... bang!|| 2419800||2424300||This wonderful photograph,~taken on the 26th of April, 1924,|| 2424300||2426100||is pretty amazing.|| 2426100||2430000||See Everest there,~there's Mallory, Irvine,|| 2430100||2433500||a couple of their Sherpas~they had with them and their pony.|| 2435200||2437900||This is almost exactly~the same spot, right?|| 2437900||2439100||Pretty close.|| 2439100||2441600||And they spent three weeks~trekking on the plateau|| 2441800||2445200||to get to this point,~to be able to see it.|| 2445200||2447600||And they were on their feet,~they'd walked every day.|| 2447800||2450800||I mean, you think for us~to get here we've been in a Jeep.|| 2457200||2460100||On April 29th, Mallory and Irvine|| 2460100||2464000||set up their center of operations -~Base Camp -|| 2464000||2465900||12 miles from the summit.|| 2481200||2485200||Like Mallory, Conrad will~rely heavily on Sherpa porters,|| 2485300||2488100||accustomed to high altitude.|| 2488100||2491200||But this is a still~a dangerous mountain.|| 2491300||2495500||Over 200 people have died here -~among them, many Sherpas.|| 2496300||2498400||Well, most important is safety.|| 2498400||2503600||Ten fingers, ten toes,~one nose, all come back...|| 2503900||2506500||- Two eyes!~- Yes, two eyes!|| 2508300||2511500||And if you see something with us,~if we look sick,|| 2511500||2515500||then you tell us and say,~"Go down!"|| 2545300||2547400||Before one embarks~on an expedition,|| 2547400||2552100||it's customary to have a puja,~which is a blessing ceremony.|| 2552100||2556100||As Chomolungma is~Mother Goddess of the Earth,|| 2556200||2561700||the mountain is a deity~for the Tibetans and the Sherpas.|| 2561900||2565300||Safe passage depends~upon having a good puja.|| 2590200||2592200||Ho!|| 2597000||2598700||Good luck, everybody!|| 2601500||2602700||Lots of luck.|| 2611500||2614400||The Monks from the~ancient monastery nearby|| 2614400||2616700||gave Mallory a very mixed welcome|| 2616700||2620300||when he approached their~sacred mountain, Chomolungma.|| 2635300||2638800||It was 83 years ago~on this day, May 15th,|| 2639000||2641200||that Mallory~and his team came here|| 2641300||2643400||for a blessing from the lama.|| 2651400||2655000||The head lama welcomed~the strange white climbers,|| 2655100||2657600||but it was an ominous encounter.|| 2663400||2665200||Along with the blessing,|| 2665200||2669500||the lama had a very stern warning~for the expedition.|| 2669600||2671800||He spoke of disaster to come,|| 2672000||2674300||prophesying that~the mountain's demons|| 2674400||2677500||would delight in forcing~the climbers off Everest.|| 2680600||2683700||The monks had even~created an illustration,|| 2683700||2685700||a very gruesome one,|| 2685700||2689200||of the Gods disemboweling~a western man|| 2689200||2691300||and pitching him into hell.|| 2693500||2695800||It must have been~a terrifying moment for Mallory.|| 2696100||2698400||He was not a superstitious man,~but I think it would have been|| 2698500||2702700||hard to be in that landscape~at that time on the third expedition|| 2703400||2706000||And not feel the atmosphere~to be saturated|| 2706100||2710200||with signs and portent~and hints and forebodings.|| 2716400||2718200||Despite the bad omens,|| 2718300||2722100||Mallory hoped that this time~he'd summit the mountain.|| 2724000||2725900||The weather was good.|| 2725900||2729100||He planned to reach~the top of Everest by mid-May,|| 2729100||2731800||to beat the snows~that came with the monsoon.|| 2745100||2750300||On May 2, 1924, the giant convoy~of climbers and porters|| 2750300||2752900||made its way out of Base Camp.|| 2764100||2766000||"My dearest Ruth,|| 2766100||2771400||The thought of you will be present~in the most important decisions...|| 2771500||2774200||I am eager for~the great events to begin."|| 2778900||2783200||Mallory realized that~the way to attack Everest|| 2783200||2788300||was a series of camps,~almost militaristic in style.|| 2788400||2792100||You go some way up,~then come back down,|| 2792100||2795900||recuperate,~and then move back up.|| 2796000||2798200||It's how you acclimatize.|| 2798200||2800200||He pioneered this technique,|| 2800200||2804300||and it's the one~we still use on Everest today.|| 2825000||2827500||Conrad and Leo~follow Mallory's route|| 2827500||2831600||through a forest~of ice pinnacles, up to Camp 3.|| 2847500||2852400||You definitely can't cheat or hide~from altitude and acclimatization.|| 2852500||2854600||It just makes everything~really hard work.|| 2857400||2859700||- This is it, Leo.~- Finally.|| 2859900||2862100||Camp 3 for 1924.|| 2865900||2871600||At Camp 3, altitude really begins~to show its nasty side effects.|| 2871600||2876300||With each breath you're getting~fewer molecules of oxygen in.|| 2876300||2877500||It's insidious.|| 2877500||2879300||You lose your appetite,|| 2879400||2881400||you have splitting headaches,|| 2881400||2886300||you have a difficult time~just doing the simplest of tasks.|| 2886300||2891500||And yet 9,000 feet above you,~the summit of Everest,|| 2891500||2893000||and it's calling you.|| 2906600||2909300||Somewhere above their Camp 2,|| 2909300||2914400||Mallory and Irvine experienced~their first bout of bad weather.|| 2914400||2917300||A storm came in,~the temperatures plummeted,|| 2917300||2920400||and Mallory realized~it wasn't going to be|| 2920500||2922700||easy street up to~the summit of Everest.|| 2925400||2927500||"My dearest girl,|| 2927500||2933600||I was acting as a lone horse~and arrived first in Camp 3.|| 2933600||2939700||The glacier is everywhere~beneath the stones...|| 2939700||2943500||My boots were frozen~hard on my feet.|| 2943600||2949200||I was a good deal depressed~by the situation...|| 2949300||2952000||I love you always, dear one."|| 2956200||2957300||Shall we try it on?|| 2957400||2961600||Yeah, I'm pretty keen~to see how this stuff works.|| 2961600||2963000||Check this out.|| 2967000||2969400||Can you imagine~climbing up with these things?|| 2969400||2970700||They're something else.|| 2972400||2975000||So I've got every layer on here.|| 2975000||2977100||Mallory and Irvine~had seven layers on|| 2977100||2979500||when they went for~the summit in '24.|| 2979500||2983200||But the big difference~is here, in the footwear.|| 2983300||2987100||I tell you, the rest of this outfit~seems pretty good.|| 2987200||2990100||But compared to the boots~that we wear these days,|| 2990100||2993500||these things look decidedly,~you know, inappropriate.|| 2998800||3002700||Wearing hobnailed boot~and gabardine jackets,|| 3002700||3005300||Conrad and Leo~venture onto the mountain.|| 3008400||3011200||We were right near the spot|| 3011200||3016300||where seven of Mallory's porters~lost their lives in the avalanche.|| 3016300||3018800||But as in 1924,|| 3019100||3023300||we were just bound together~by a thin cotton rope.|| 3031500||3033500||Using Mallory's technique,|| 3033500||3036600||Conrad cuts steps~into the steep ice slope.|| 3040600||3042400||This is real mountain terrain.|| 3042500||3043600||I mean, if you lose your footing|| 3043700||3046200||you'll fall down 1,000 feet~to the base of it.|| 3046200||3048200||And we need to~start being careful now,|| 3048300||3051600||there's crevasses,~there's danger of avalanche.|| 3053700||3055800||When you stand~on the edge of a crevasse,|| 3056100||3059200||you just see this slot~disappearing down into the glacier,|| 3059200||3060900||hundreds of feet deep.|| 3061100||3063700||But the dangerous ones~are the ones that you can't see.|| 3063800||3066600||You can be walking across~a snow bridge just a few feet thick|| 3066700||3069600||and fall through it to certain death.|| 3070400||3073300||- Yikes, she's deep, isn't she?~- Yeah.|| 3077400||3079300||I'm right at the bridge!|| 3080100||3081300||Ten feet of rope!|| 3082600||3084300||Be careful, my friend.|| 3100700||3105200||It's phenomenal that they~were able to get to 28,000 feet|| 3105200||3108300||in what I would basically call|| 3108300||3111300||clothing you'd walk through the forest.|| 3115300||3116900||Good job, Leo.|| 3117100||3119500||No... Good job Conrad.|| 3122400||3123800||Ohhh...|| 3123800||3125500||I'm knackered!|| 3131600||3136500||In 1924, Mallory's team were~pinned down by weather so severe|| 3136600||3139300||Sandy Irvine feared for his life.|| 3140500||3142700||"May 10th...|| 3142700||3146400||Had a terrible night~with wind and snow.|| 3146500||3149400||I don't know how~the tent stood it.|| 3149400||3151300||Very little sleep,|| 3151300||3155800||and about two inches of snow~over everything in the tent.|| 3155900||3158300||Awful headache this morning."|| 3160300||3163600||Irvine was suffering~from altitude sickness.|| 3163600||3168800||His role as Mallory's~climbing partner was now in doubt.|| 3168900||3173700||The harsh conditions forced the~entire team back down to Base Camp.|| 3176700||3178400||When they arrived there|| 3178400||3181700||they found that two~of the staff were dead.|| 3181700||3184000||Instead of preparing~for a summit bid|| 3184200||3186000||they were burying people~in Base Camp.|| 3186200||3189800||It must have been quite strange~for Irvine to come to terms with that.|| 3192600||3196200||"One of our NCOs~suddenly got paralysis,|| 3196300||3200900||probably due to a clot on the brain~from frostbitten fingers.|| 3200900||3205300||The poor fellow died~within half a mile of Base Camp."|| 3208200||3212000||Meanwhile, Mallory planned~another dangerous summit bid.|| 3214800||3218300||But he allowed no sign~of the team's suffering to show|| 3218400||3220900||in a letter to his eldest daughter, Clare.|| 3223600||3224800||"My darling,|| 3224800||3228800||There is not much wind today,~so it is nice and warm.|| 3228800||3231600||Now tea has come~and for the first time|| 3231600||3235500||since I don't know when, cake.|| 3235500||3239400||Shall we have a little tea party together~one day in August,|| 3239400||3244800||with a flat, warm squidgy cake~and nothing else?|| 3244800||3247000||Haven't you got a greedy Daddy!|| 3253600||3255900||It was already mid-May.|| 3256000||3258400||And soon, the snows would come.|| 3259700||3263100||The monsoon arrives~early June every year.|| 3263300||3265300||It releases a tremendous~amount of snow.|| 3266300||3267900||Climbing is impossible.|| 3285600||3289700||We had the same challenge~as Mallory in 1924.|| 3289800||3292400||We were there late in the season.|| 3292500||3295600||If we didn't get up the mountain~before the monsoon hit|| 3295600||3297900||we'd be in very serious trouble.|| 3305800||3308400||Over 22,000 feet up,|| 3308500||3311900||Conrad and Leo start~the ascent of Everest itself.|| 3316900||3320900||They are on one of the most~treacherous parts of the mountain -|| 3320900||3325700||the giant wall of ice and snow~that leads up to the North Col,|| 3325800||3327600||the launchpad to the summit.|| 3356800||3361100||Despite all the modern equipment,~the altitude hits Leo hard.|| 3362900||3365600||This is the first time~I've ever been to this altitude,|| 3365700||3371200||and you move so desperately slowly,~it's unreal, you just can't believe.|| 3371400||3373600||You take two steps~and you're completely out of breath,|| 3373700||3375800||and I'm sure it's going to~get worse as we get up.|| 3393600||3396500||With hobnailed boots~and no guide-ropes,|| 3396600||3399600||Mallory led the assault~on the North Col,|| 3399600||3404000||cutting steps into what he called~'its great battlements of ice. '|| 3406600||3409200||"The North Col was a triumph.|| 3409400||3414400||I enjoyed the conquest of~the ice wall and making the steps.|| 3414500||3417800||Afterwards I was~practically bust to the world."|| 3419700||3421700||Looking back down the valley,|| 3421700||3426600||he was already higher than~the greatest peaks in Europe or America.|| 3426600||3430500||But the summit was still~6,000 feet above.|| 3441600||3445800||Here on the Col, Mallory set~up his bridgehead to Everest -|| 3445900||3448600||Camp 4.|| 3448600||3452100||He planned higher camps~further up the mountain.|| 3452200||3455800||These would take him within~striking distance of the summit.|| 3457800||3461500||Mallory had a cough~that wouldn't go away,|| 3461500||3465000||Irvine was suffering from diarrhea,|| 3465000||3467000||and the cold never left them.|| 3472600||3474300||"My dearest Ruth,|| 3474500||3475900||I couldn't sleep,|| 3476000||3480600||distressed with bursts of coughing~fit to tear one's guts.|| 3480600||3483600||Fierce squalls visited our tents~and shook them|| 3483600||3487900||with the disagreeable threat of tearing~them away from their moorings.|| 3487900||3491800||There was never a more~determined and bitter enemy."|| 3497500||3499300||Twenty-three thousand feet up,|| 3499500||3503200||Conrad and Leo test out~Mallory's gear one last time.|| 3504800||3509500||Suddenly, temperatures plummet~to 20 below freezing.|| 3509600||3511300||They're in severe danger of frostbite.|| 3522200||3523900||Thank you, Mingma.|| 3524000||3524900||No problem.|| 3533200||3536900||I can't imagine going to~8,500 meters in these boots.|| 3539200||3541300||Which is my theory,|| 3541600||3545900||that if those guys~were moving they were okay...|| 3546000||3548900||but once they stopped moving~the clock was ticking,|| 3549000||3551600||and it was a different game altogether.|| 3557600||3559200||My toes are freezing.|| 3564600||3569400||In '22, Mallory frostbit one of his fingers...|| 3569600||3572900||And he commented that it~was bad but not that bad.|| 3572900||3577700||And then as a note aside he said,|| 3577700||3581900||"I wouldn't mind if~I lost a finger for this summit."|| 3583300||3585600||And if I was in his shoes~I probably would have thought|| 3585700||3591000||the same thing because it~was the golden age of exploration.|| 3596600||3598000||Ahh, that's it.|| 3598000||3599400||Come on, my beauties.|| 3602800||3604700||Oh, God.|| 3610800||3613100||Bad weather blocks Conrad's path|| 3613200||3616000||and the monsoon snows~are imminent.|| 3616000||3620900||He and Leo risk being trapped~high on Everest, beyond rescue.|| 3623700||3626400||It was a stressful moment.|| 3626700||3627800||What are we doing?|| 3627800||3630000||We're climbing~into the second week of June,|| 3630100||3632200||the monsoon's on our ass.|| 3632200||3635900||I get on the phone to Jennifer,~and I say to her,|| 3635900||3640000||it's not worth what I'm putting you~and the family through,|| 3640100||3641800||and I'm ready to come home.|| 3643900||3646400||The window was closing;~I knew the monsoon was coming.|| 3646700||3650200||I was looking at the satellite~imagery of the weather.|| 3650200||3651700||I said, Conrad, you know what?|| 3651700||3653400||I'm looking at the computer screen|| 3653700||3656100||and I'm seeing this~giant wall of weather -|| 3656100||3658100||and it's the monsoon.|| 3658200||3660100||And I just said, Conrad,|| 3660100||3664900||you need to be confident~that you can make it.|| 3665000||3668500||But if you have a chance~to climb the Second Step,|| 3668700||3670100||I want you to go for it.|| 3675700||3677200||"My dear one,|| 3677200||3679500||What is happening to you?|| 3679700||3681800||I wonder so much.|| 3681800||3685300||Are you happy~and are you well?|| 3685300||3689300||All the immortal love~my soul has is with you...|| 3689300||3691100||Ruth."|| 3693700||3696200||Early in June, 1924,|| 3696200||3700000||two of Mallory's team,~Norton and Somervell,|| 3700000||3705800||pushed on up the mountain,~but Everest forced them back.|| 3705800||3709500||Snow-blind, Norton had~to be carried down.|| 3709700||3712300||Somervell almost choked to death|| 3712300||3715300||before coughing up~part of his frostbitten larynx.|| 3717900||3721000||Clearly, it was time to go home.|| 3721000||3724400||They were weak with exhaustion...|| 3724400||3727800||The monsoon was due...|| 3727800||3729900||But Mallory refused to give in.|| 3732300||3734300||"My dear girl,|| 3734400||3738400||This has been~a bad time altogether...|| 3738400||3742000||Perhaps it's mere folly~to go up again.|| 3742000||3745500||But how can I be out of the hunt?|| 3745800||3750200||Six days to the top~from this camp.|| 3750200||3754000||It's 50 to 1 against,~but we'll have a whack yet|| 3754100||3757100||and do ourselves proud.|| 3757200||3758400||Great love to you,|| 3758500||3760800||ever your loving George."|| 3777200||3780300||The big question~is why George Mallory|| 3780300||3782400||thought it was worth~one more shot.|| 3782400||3785900||I think the way to reconcile~the overriding conflict in his life,|| 3785900||3788300||was actually to climb the mountain~and be done with it|| 3788300||3791000||and go home to Ruth~and say I've done it,|| 3791000||3794000||it's over, now we can get on~with the rest of our lives.|| 3795200||3799200||He knew that this was it.|| 3799200||3801600||He couldn't~come back again later|| 3801800||3804100||if he didn't get to the top.|| 3804100||3808600||It would be impossible~to put Ruth through that again.|| 3810800||3813600||"I must tell you, dearest one,|| 3813800||3818300||I feel full of energy and strength.|| 3818300||3821300||My plan will be to carry~as little as possible,|| 3821400||3824000||go fast, and rush the summit."|| 3833900||3839500||Mallory now needed oxygen~and Irvine more than ever.|| 3839500||3842000||He wanted his partner,|| 3842000||3845000||now over the worst~of his altitude sickness,|| 3845100||3848400||to apply his technical skills~to the final assault.|| 3850400||3853900||"Irvine has been brilliantly~skillful about the oxygen.|| 3853900||3857100||He has practically~invented a new instrument."|| 3860600||3862400||"Fifth of June...|| 3862500||3866500||It will be a great triumph~if my impromptu apparatus|| 3866600||3869300||gets us to the top.|| 3869300||3872000||It has been~very trying for everyone|| 3872100||3875900||with terribly strong~reflection off the snow.|| 3876000||3878500||I've prepared~two oxygen apparatus|| 3878500||3881300||for our start tomorrow morning."|| 3884400||3887900||These are the last words~written by Sandy Irvine.|| 3890300||3891700||He would have gone|| 3891900||3894000||wherever Mallory would have~wanted him to go,|| 3894100||3897200||and I'm quite sure~that he had every intention|| 3897200||3898700||of coming back from the mountain|| 3898900||3901300||with both feet, both legs,~both arms intact.|| 3901400||3905000||I don't think~he even entertained, truly entertained,|| 3905000||3906700||the idea that he would die.|| 3906900||3909400||I think he believed that~he was indestructible.|| 3913300||3915000||Early on June the 6th,|| 3915100||3919200||support climber Noel Odell~photographed Mallory and Irvine|| 3919300||3922000||as they set out from the North Col.|| 3927000||3930200||"Who could hold back~when such a victory,|| 3930200||3935500||such a triumph of human endeavor~was within their grasp."|| 3939000||3943700||"One must conquer, achieve,~get to the top...|| 3943700||3948500||to know there's no dream~that mustn't be dared."|| 3958000||3960100||There's nothing on top~of Mount Everest.|| 3960200||3963100||There's not a pot of gold.|| 3963100||3966200||Well, why are we doing this?|| 3966300||3968100||You want the glory.|| 3968100||3972200||You want that feeling~of standing on top of the world.|| 3976000||3980700||Gambling on beating the monsoon,~Conrad makes his choice -|| 3980700||3983500||to follow Mallory~up to the Second Step.|| 3986300||3990400||We're starting our summit bid~and it's the 10th of June.|| 3990400||3992000||I think the 5th of June|| 3992100||3995300||is the latest anyone's~ever climbed pre-monsoon.|| 3995300||3997800||The clouds in the background~are an indication|| 3998000||3999400||of the monsoon rolling in,|| 3999400||4003300||so we're gonna play it by ear,~one day at a time,|| 4003300||4006400||but this is our window.|| 4032800||4035300||It's just ridiculously tiring,|| 4035300||4038300||like it feels like~someone's taking the Michael...|| 4038300||4041600||You take one step~and your head's in your hands.|| 4070400||4072600||That is unreal, isn't it?|| 4072700||4075200||It's like an out-of-body experience.|| 4087700||4090800||On June the 7th,~cameraman John Noel|| 4090900||4094600||filmed the last images~of Mallory and Irvine.|| 4098500||4102600||They were two miles above him~with their porters,|| 4102700||4104700||climbing into the death zone,|| 4104700||4106500||where the lack of oxygen|| 4106500||4108800||makes it impossible~to function for long.|| 4111600||4114900||In the death zone,~above 26,000 feet,|| 4115100||4120900||the body enters into~what is known as necrosis...|| 4121200||4122900||One is dying.|| 4127200||4130500||Humans weren't meant~to survive at this altitude,|| 4130600||4132500||and you're on borrowed time.|| 4137700||4142200||As they enter the death zone,~Conrad and Leo use oxygen,|| 4142200||4144500||like Mallory and Irvine before them.|| 4155200||4156400||I was just thinking,|| 4156500||4159400||oh, the death zone -~this place isn't that bad.|| 4159500||4162600||All of a sudden~the first of the dead bodies|| 4162700||4168400||that we encountered~appeared right by the path.|| 4168500||4170000||And it was a real...|| 4170200||4173000||Where else do you~walk past a dead body?|| 4173200||4174400||Unless you're in a war zone|| 4174500||4176600||you're never going to~witness anything like that.|| 4176600||4178400||It's such an extreme environment~up there|| 4178500||4180600||that no one can~do anything about it,|| 4180600||4182300||they can't bring them down.|| 4189500||4193600||High in the death zone,~some 2,000 feet below the summit,|| 4193700||4197400||Mallory and Irvine~pitched their last camp.|| 4200200||4202900||Here Mallory wrote~to cameraman John Noel,|| 4202900||4206700||who was waiting further down~to film the moment of triumph.|| 4208600||4209800||"Dear Noel,|| 4209800||4213600||We'll probably start early tomorrow~to have clear weather.|| 4213600||4215600||Start looking out for us|| 4215600||4218500||either crossing the rock band~under the pyramid|| 4218500||4221300||or going up the skyline at 8 p.m."|| 4223300||4225900||Clearly he meant to say 8 a.m.|| 4230800||4232000||He was tired.|| 4232300||4234500||He had been~on expedition for three months|| 4234600||4237800||and now over three days~in the death zone.|| 4257800||4260500||We knew the monsoon~was imminent.|| 4260600||4264800||We only had a 12-hour window...|| 4264800||4267700||We had to strike~while the iron was hot.|| 4268800||4271600||You're so nervous~that I woke up|| 4271600||4274800||before the alarm~and turned our headlamps on,|| 4274800||4277100||got all the~layering systems set up.|| 4277300||4280300||When you step out of the tent~it was a bit like a starting gate.|| 4280300||4281700||I was ready to go.|| 4282300||4284500||Leo was so excited,|| 4284500||4286900||he had that boost~of summit energy.|| 4287000||4289600||It's probably similar~to what Mallory and Irvine had|| 4289600||4291700||on their summit day|| 4291700||4294000||when they were there~within striking distance|| 4294000||4295900||of the first ascent of Everest.|| 4312700||4316800||Imagine the morning~of June 8, 1924...|| 4318900||4322800||They're cold,~they've had a restless night of sleep.|| 4325100||4328700||Compound this with~a lack of appetite,|| 4328800||4332500||severe dehydration.|| 4332600||4334600||Their bodies are wasted.|| 4334600||4337600||Their mental faculties~are compromised.|| 4337600||4341100||Simple things~become monumental chores.|| 4357400||4359500||Twenty-eight thousand feet~is at the limit|| 4359600||4362400||of what is humanly possible.|| 4362400||4367900||Even with supplemental oxygen,~it's very, very desperate.|| 4367900||4371200||And above them is a route~that no one has ever been on.|| 4371400||4372800||And when you're the first,|| 4372800||4375400||overcoming this sense~of the unknown|| 4375500||4377500||is one of~the greatest challenges.|| 4387600||4389200||Think about it:|| 4389400||4392900||The anxiety, the fear, trepidation,|| 4393000||4396400||combined with the exhilaration.|| 4396500||4400800||All those things stirring around|| 4400800||4405700||and held fast~by pain and suffering.|| 4415000||4418700||Mallory and Irvine~climbed the North Face,|| 4418700||4420700||up towards the summit ridge,|| 4420700||4422900||where the Second Step~blocked their path.|| 4428100||4432000||We got to the ridge~just on schedule, right after dawn.|| 4435900||4437800||Absolutely wonderful.|| 4470500||4474800||At 12:50 on June 8, 1924,|| 4474800||4479100||support climber Noel Odell~sighted Mallory and Irvine|| 4479200||4481000||through a gap in the clouds.|| 4484500||4488900||"My eyes became fixed~on a tiny black dot,|| 4489000||4493200||a short distance from the base~of the final pyramid.|| 4493200||4495800||Another moved up to join it.|| 4495800||4500600||They were moving expeditiously,~as if to make up for lost time.|| 4500700||4505300||Then the whole~fascinating vision vanished,|| 4505500||4508200||enveloped in a cloud."|| 4513900||4516500||Mallory and Irvine were missing.|| 4518800||4521800||"No trace can be found...|| 4521800||4523700||Awaiting orders."|| 4526000||4529100||Instead of capturing~their victorious ascent,|| 4529200||4533700||cameraman John Noel~had to film the search for them.|| 4537800||4542300||Days later, blankets laid out~as a cross in the snow|| 4542600||4546200||signaled the devastating news.|| 4546200||4550700||Mallory and Irvine were lost,~presumed dead.|| 4566700||4571700||Mrs Mallory,~Herschel House, Cambridge...|| 4571700||4576200||Committee deeply regret~receive bad news.|| 4576300||4580200||Everest expedition today...|| 4580300||4582200||Your husband killed...|| 4582300||4584100||Last climb.|| 4584200||4587700||Committee offer you and family~heartfelt sympathy.|| 4592200||4595000||Ruth received~the news one evening.|| 4595000||4597600||She decided not~to tell her children that night|| 4597700||4599100||because they'd already gone to bed.|| 4599200||4601100||She actually went to bed herself|| 4601100||4603000||and slept with~that terrible knowledge,|| 4603000||4606900||then in morning woke them up~and took them into her bed,|| 4606900||4609300||and told them this terrible news.|| 4611000||4615800||"George's spirit~was ready for another life,|| 4615800||4620300||and his way of going to it~was very beautiful.|| 4620300||4624200||I know so absolutely~he could not have failed|| 4624300||4628200||in courage or self-sacrifice.|| 4628300||4631900||If only it hadn't happened.|| 4631900||4634000||It so easily might not have."|| 4638700||4644800||The golden age of exploration~had ended in tragedy.|| 4644900||4649100||The fallen hero was~mourned by King and country.|| 4652700||4655200||It must have been~an extraordinary day,|| 4655300||4659800||the bells ringing out~around Britain in mourning...|| 4659900||4663500||And then~a memorial service in St Paul's,|| 4663700||4666500||the mourners packing the pews|| 4666700||4668800||and speeches given~in Mallory's honor.|| 4674400||4679700||Mallory, the man,~soon became Mallory, the legend.|| 4679700||4686200||Many people were convinced~he had reached the top of Everest.|| 4686300||4692000||But to summit, he would first have had~to free-climb the Second Step.|| 4694300||4700200||On June 14th our expedition~reached the Second Step -|| 4700300||4706200||this formidable rock face that~stood between Mallory and the summit.|| 4708800||4712100||The Sherpas cleared the fixed-ropes~and hauled the ladder away,|| 4712200||4716200||restoring the Second Step~to what it was like in 1924.|| 4722200||4729500||Goal is today, pull the ladders up~and climb it free -|| 4729800||4732300||that is without the assistance~of the Chinese ladder.|| 4760100||4761800||This whole time on the expedition|| 4761800||4765600||I knew it was going to~come down to this half hour,|| 4765800||4770000||on a cliff band at 28,300 feet.|| 4770100||4773200||Could I do it in the form~that Mallory and Irvine|| 4773200||4776000||would have encountered it,~free of any ladder,|| 4776100||4781000||free of any rope,~free of any indication of man?|| 4781100||4784000||You have the whole~North Face of Mount Everest|| 4784100||4787200||all the way down to the~central Rongbuk glacier below you.|| 4789200||4791900||Seven, eight-thousand feet of exposure.|| 4792000||4794000||God, what am I doing?|| 4808000||4809600||Just like Mallory and Irvine,|| 4809800||4812100||Leo and I were tied together.|| 4814400||4816200||It's the brotherhood of the rope.|| 4832100||4834400||Imagine this...|| 4834400||4840100||June 8, 1924.|| 4877000||4878000||Whoa!|| 4889200||4890700||You okay?|| 4890900||4892300||Yeah...|| 4892400||4893600||Man!|| 4893600||4896200||What happened?|| 4896200||4897500||Bad step.|| 4900300||4902900||Had I not caught myself,|| 4903000||4906000||there's a good chance~I could have fallen over the edge,|| 4906100||4908200||pulled Leo off of the mountain|| 4908300||4912000||and fallen 7,000 feet~to the central Rongbuk glacier.|| 4914100||4915700||I think it shook him up somewhat|| 4915900||4918200||and he ended up~spending quite a long time|| 4918200||4921400||figuring out what to do next,~recomposing himself.|| 4921500||4923500||I mean, I'd say at least 20 minutes.|| 4924500||4927000||Want to stand on my shoulders?|| 4928400||4930300||I'm going to give it another go.|| 4934200||4939100||My job was to...~climb the Second Step.|| 4939200||4943100||I knew that I had to~try it from a different angle.|| 5019600||5021200||Okay...|| 5021200||5022400||High step...|| 5052200||5054200||I think I got it, Leo.|| 5054300||5055600||I think I got it...|| 5062300||5063700||Aaaahhh!|| 5096200||5099700||After eight years~of keeping me awake at night|| 5099700||5105900||and being the 90 feet of climbing~that I had to get done...|| 5106100||5107700||I got the Second Step.|| 5119300||5120500||I can't breathe.|| 5124300||5128700||I realized that my toes~had gone completely numb.|| 5128700||5131300||My biggest fear~through this whole experience|| 5131300||5134800||has been getting frostbite~in my toes.|| 5134900||5138200||I was just concerned about~getting to the top of the Second Step|| 5138200||5139900||as quickly as I possibly could.|| 5148200||5151300||I thought about Mallory.|| 5151400||5153900||Our ascent of the Second Step|| 5153900||5158500||opens up the possibility~that they could have pulled it off.|| 5162500||5165000||Earlier I was under the impression~that the Second Step|| 5165200||5168600||was an impossibility~for climbers of that time.|| 5168600||5171400||Now I'm changed on that.|| 5171500||5174800||They definitely were~capable of doing it.|| 5177200||5181600||The Second Step is not too much~of an obstacle for them to overcome.|| 5206400||5209000||They were determined,|| 5209200||5213500||and if they were strong~and they were moving quickly,|| 5213500||5215900||there's a chance~they made it to the top.|| 5218900||5221000||"Dear one,|| 5221300||5225600||I will be thinking of you~as you set off for the summit.|| 5225700||5229000||I know you can achieve~your wildest dream."|| 5248300||5251400||"If we get within~200 yards or so|| 5251400||5253500||of the top of Everest,|| 5253600||5257600||we shall go...|| 5257700||5261900||And if it's a one-way ticket,~so be it."|| 5314900||5318600||Eight years after I found~the body of George Mallory,|| 5318600||5321400||the circle is complete.|| 5326800||5330500||A few hours before~the monsoon closed in,|| 5330500||5333900||Leo and I summitted Mount Everest.|| 5337700||5342100||And we have shown~that these could have been|| 5342100||5345600||Mallory and Irvine's final footsteps.|| 5356900||5362200||"Is this the summit crowning the day?|| 5362400||5367000||How cool and how quiet...|| 5367100||5372900||Have we vanquished an enemy?|| 5373000||5375500||None but ourselves?"||

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