Dawn

Dawn

Η απαγόρευση πλοίων-εργοστασίων, όπως το « Atlantic Dawn » για παράδειγμα, είναι προαπαιτούμενο αυτής της συμφωνίας.
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The ban on factory ships such as the ‘ Atlantic Dawn', for example, is a prerequisite for reaching such an agreement.
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Το άλλο σημείο στο οποίο θα ήθελα να σταματήσω αφορά τον όρο ο οποίος φαίνεται να διευκολύνει την Atlantic Dawn.
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The other point I wish to make relates to the clause which appears to facilitate the Atlantic Dawn.
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Συγχαίρω την Επιτροπή που προχώρησε σε δικαστικά μέτρα κατά της Atlantic Dawn, αλλά θα ήθελα να μας δώσει τις νεότερες πληροφορίες γι' αυτή την υπόθεση.
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I congratulate the Commission on taking legal action against the Atlantic Dawn, but I would now like to hear from the Commission the latest on this case.
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Μαλτέζικο κείμενοL-esportatur tal-prodotti koperti b’dan id-dokument (awtorizzazzjoni tad-dwana nru. …(1)) jiddikjara li, ħlief fejn indikat b’mod ċar li mhux hekk, dawn il-prodotti huma ta'oriġini preferenzjali …(2).

(1) The Agreement establishing an Association between the European Economic Community and Turkey, signed in Ankara on 12 September 1963 (hereinafter referred to as “the Ankara Agreement”)[?], entered into force on 1 December 1964.

Μαλτέζικη έκδοσηL-esportatur tal-prodotti koperti b’dan id-dokument (awtorizzazzjoni tad-dwana nru. …(1)) jiddikjara li, ħlief fejn indikat b’mod ċar li mhux hekk, dawn il-prodotti huma ta'oriġini preferenzjali …(2).

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 133, in conjunction with the first sentence of the first subparagraph of Article 300(2) thereof,

Μαλτέζικο κείμενοL-esportatur tal-prodotti koperti b'dan id-dokument (awtorizzazzjoni kompetenti tal-gvern jew tad-dwana nru…. [1]) jiddikjara li, hlief fejn indikat b'mod car li mhux hekk, dawn il-prodotti huma ta'origini preferenzjali… [2].

5. Where a provision of this Protocol is applied by the Contracting Parties pending its entry into force, any reference in such a provision to the date of entry into force of this Protocol shall be understood to refer to the date from which those Parties agree to apply that provision, in accordance with paragraph 3.

Συγχαίρω την Επιτροπή που προχώρησε σε δικαστικά μέτρα κατά της Atlantic Dawn, αλλά θα ήθελα να μας δώσει τις νεότερες πληροφορίες γι'αυτή την υπόθεση.

I congratulate the Commission on taking legal action against the Atlantic Dawn, but I would now like to hear from the Commission the latest on this case.

Ήδη πριν από οχτώ χρόνια ο Benjamin Cohen, στο άρθρο του, ""λεκτρονικό Χρήμα: Νέα "μέρα ή Απατηλή Αυγή;" (Electronic Money: New Day or False Dawn), δήλωνε ότι η εποχή του ηλεκτρονικού χρήματος βρίσκεται προ των πυλών.
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It was all of eight years ago that a Benjamin Cohen, in his article, 'Electronic Money: New Day or False Dawn?', stated that the era of electronic money will soon be upon us.
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Η απαγόρευση πλοίων-εργοστασίων, όπως το «Atlantic Dawn» για παράδειγμα, είναι προαπαιτούμενο αυτής της συμφωνίας.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/

The ban on factory ships such as the ‘Atlantic Dawn', for example, is a prerequisite for reaching such an agreement.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/

Ο Λιούμπε Μπόσκοβσκι δεν κατάφερε να προσέλθει σε προγραμματισμένη ακρόαση την Τρίτη (4 Μαΐου) και κηρύχθηκε αγνοούμενος. (Reuters, AP, BBC, RFE/RL, Ireland Online, MIA, Makfax, BETA, Dawn, PakNews - 04/05/04; AP, BBC, Independent - 03/05/04) Η ΠΓΔΜ εξέδωσε ένταλμα σύλληψης για τον πρώην υπουργό Εσωτερικών, ο οποίος φέρεται να έχει διατάξει τις δολοφονίες έξι Πακιστανών και ενός Ινδού το 2002.
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Ljube Boskovski failed to appear for a scheduled hearing Tuesday (4 May) and was reported missing. (Reuters, AP, BBC, RFE/RL, Ireland Online, MIA, Makfax, BETA, Dawn, PakNews - 04/05/04; AP, BBC, Independent - 03/05/04)Macedonia has issued an arrest warrant for a former interior minister, alleged to have ordered the murders of six Pakistanis and one Indian in 2002.
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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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