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(WIND HOWLING)
MAN: (ON RADIO) Well done, you're doing really well. Keep it up.
We can see your every move now. Fantastic.
Don't rush. There's no rush. Over.
ALISON: It's amazing. Over.
MAN: (ON RADIO) Go on, Alison. ALISON: Whoo!
MAN: She's done it, she's there. ALISON: Whoo! I feel like...
NEWS REPORTER: A 33-year-old mother has become
the first British woman to conquer Mount Everest alone
and without an oxygen supply.
Alison Hargreaves from Torlundy near Fort William
is the only British professional female mountaineer...
NEWS REPORTER 2: Alison Hargreaves had nurtured her ambition
to conquer Everest without oxygen since her schooldays.
After a failed attempt last year,
driven back by appalling weather,
the 33-year-old finally sent word back to her husband by fax
that she was on top of the world.
NEWS REPORTER 3: Alison, mother of two,
reached the summit of Everest, 8,848 meters,
13th of May 1995 at 12:08pm Nepalese time.
KRISS: Keep your heads up. Heads up, heads up.
Heads up. Heads up. MAN 3: Kate. Heads up. Kate.
Careful. Go that way, Tom.
Just like as if we're going skiing. Very straight, Tom.
KRISS: You're a mother of two young children.
What did they think when mum come home a world record holder?
Well, they don't really understand, I mean,
they know mum's done something special 'cause people
keep asking them about what mummy's just done.
ALISON: Um, but mummy's always gone off and climbed mountains,
so to a certain extent, it's fairly normal.
Do you think mum is very clever?
Yes. Why is your mum very clever?
Because she climbed Mount Everest.
And she climbed Mount Everest, all on...
Her own. Without any...
BOTH: Oxygen.
And why is that clever?
Because it, because it's clever. (LAUGHS)
Because it's very clever!
Shall we pump it out for your mum because she's a...
Let's give three cheers for your mum
'cause she's a record breaker! (CHEERING)
MAN 4: What's next?
Um, in a couple of weeks' time I'm off
to Pakistan to try and climb K2,
which is the second-highest in the world.
So it's not so high, but maybe a little bit more difficult.
So that'll be fun. MAN 4: What drives you on?
Ah. I don't know, something inside.
I mean, I love climbing mountains and,
and I love standing on top.
And to have stood on top of the highest in the world,
for me, is just unbelievable.
NARRATOR: Conquering Everest and K2 in the one season
without oxygen is unprecedented.
But as she prepares to set off,
Alison Hargreaves is well aware of the dangers.
When we go climbing, we obviously minimize the risks,
and if we thought it was that risky, we wouldn't go climbing.
I mean, anybody who, who went off thinking that, you know,
there was a, you know, very high chance they wouldn't come back,
I think is-is a very, it's a unfair thing to do,
especially with their own family.
ALISON: Basically, you know, climbers climb.
We know our strengths and our weaknesses, and hopefully
we can normally make the right decisions at the right time.
KRISS: Tom, what do you think of your mummy?
She's very nice and she's, and she is very clever,
so she, she'll do it.
(ALISON PANTING)
(WIND HOWLING)
♪ I'm a mole I'm a mole And I live in a hole ♪
(PANTING)
Ooh.
(PANTING)
I'm a mole.
(CHUCKLES)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(CHILDREN LAUGHING)
JIM: I had the worst job
that any parent's ever gonna have in their life.
I sat the children down in a quiet room and, um,
and told them that their mother was more than likely dead
and they wouldn't see her again.
And she was lost on a storm in K2.
Um...
And Kate cried and shouted, as small children will,
and, uh, Tom asked if he and Kate
could see their mum's last mountain.
And I didn't think for very long.
I gave them my promise
that they would see where their mum died
and, more importantly, their mum's last mountain.
JIM: Well, that's it, chaps, that's the last of the bags.
Everything's packed, now all we need is the station.
JIM: Thank you. MAN 5: Take care.
Look after the kids.
JIM: I will do, don't worry.
See you all when I come back.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
MAN ON PA: The passengers sitting out on the left-hand
side can have a view of K2
and the tall treat on to the left to it
is finally visible.
KATE: Where is K2?
JIM: K2's the pointy one, straight on the skies here.
Over there? Yeah, the big pointy one.
Your mum stood on top of that, and Everest.
That one big pointy. Yeah, let's look it up.
JIM: Nobody knows how life is gonna unfold.
Nobody knew we were going to have two smashing children.
But we did.
And the one promise we made to each other
that was totally binding was that we would always
bring our children up in the wide-open spaces, in freedom,
learning what spirit's about,
learning what adventure's about,
enjoying, understanding and accepting
the wild and beautiful place of this Earth.
I wouldn't like to see Tom and Kate do anything
that-that people wanted them to do.
I'd only like to see Tom and Kate have
the opportunity to do what they want to do,
be it bricklayer or brain surgeon.
But it would be an awfully hard act for Kate
to have to follow the greatest woman climber.
And even more impossible to follow as a boy.
But who knows?
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
TOM: The mountains, I think, are magnetic.
There is some sort of force that pulls you in.
KATE: It's the aura. It's the, the purity.
The open, vast sky.
You can see forever.
And the mountains have this awesome power.
(RUMBLING)
Oh, my God!
Oh, whoa.
TOM: You can't conquer them.
They were there before us, and after we've gone,
they'll still be there.
And so i-instead of fighting against them,
you have to find a way to work with them.
You have to be in harmony,
and sometimes they let you and other times they won't.
But we're always sort of pushing ourselves a little bit
to see how far we can go, you know,
how far at the edge can we go before we topple off.
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
Danger is very personal to everybody.
Yes!
Pushing your own personal limits is more or less
going for longer or higher or faster or harder.
But never fighting against the mountain because you can't,
because they'll always win in the end.
(WATER GURGLING)
KATE: My relationship with the mountains is, I would say,
not completely different to Tom's.
You know, our love and our drive is exactly the same,
but he's got goals in mind.
He's got, "I wanna do this peak and this peak
"and this peak, and I want to do this route on this peak
"and this one and this one," and he just strives to, to climb.
It's all he's ever wanted to do, you know?
That's fine, and that is and has always been Tom.
Nobody knows why Tom is the way he is,
he's just a climber and always will be.
(CLANKING)
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
KATE: Anyone that's ever seen Tom on a mountain
would say how much like an ibex he is.
Just so sure-footed. It's hard to explain.
I've never seen anyone like that.
I don't know what Tom's plans are, I've got no idea.
But if he does take his climbing to a higher level,
I definitely want to be a part of it.
And while he's climbing,
I'm sure I'll be doing other things.
I adore to climb mountains, don't get me wrong,
but I don't just necessarily want to get to the top and down again.
But if I'm climbing with Tom, it's, like,
200 million times easier
than if I was doing it with anybody else.
Anybody else in the entire world.
Having Tom by my side is like having protection,
a helping hand, or just...
He's a nice person to have next to you
when you're on the mountain.
It's so...
MAN 5: That's a nice thing for a sister to say, isn't it, Tom?
It's very nice, yeah. See? I can be nice.
Ah, okay. I didn't know. (LAUGHS)
(CHUCKLES)
Sorry, Joe.
(BIRD CHIRPING)
REPORTER: The time is 17 minutes to 9:00,
the climber, Tom Ballard,
has just completed a remarkable feat.
The six great north faces of the Alps,
all climbed alone, in winter, in one season.
He's the son of Alison Hargreaves,
who did the same thing in the summer season.
In 1995, Alison Hargreaves was killed
after reaching the summit of K2,
the world's second-highest mountain.
MAN: (ON RADIO) The six great peaks of Europe,
climb the north faces, all in one winter
sounds an absolutely miserable business to me.
How-how difficult was it?
TOM: Uh, the main difficulty is
getting the right conditions at the right time.
And then, you know, I think that, uh, maybe
sort of 80% is probably sort of down,
more down to luck wi-with the weather, and...
The thing is, the, the mountains will always be there.
You just have to make sure that you are.
MAN: (ON RADIO) It's just a shame that climbing
isn't an Olympic sport because
we'd be nailed on for gold with you, surely, wouldn't we?
TOM: (CHUCKLES) Yeah, it would be nice, actually,
to have a nice gold medal instead of just
a nice feeling at the end of the day.
MAN: (ON RADIO) Well, Tom, lovely talking to you,
and continued success.
I'm sure your mum would be very proud indeed.
TOM: I think so, too. Thank you very much.
MAN: (ON RADIO) All right, all the best.
That's, uh, Tom Ballard,
a world-beating British climber.
And we are proud of him.
It's, uh, just gone 26 minutes past 11:00...
JIM: I genuinely believe, like his mother had a talent,
Tom has a fantastic talent, and I believe that Tom,
up to this moment in time, knows how to use that talent.
But I don't believe in omnipotence.
The problem is that the game is played,
particularly if he transfers it to higher peaks.
Goes from playing Russian roulette
with maybe no or one bullet in,
to playing Russian roulette with quite a lot of bullets in.
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
WOMAN: (ON TV) The search continues for a British climber
who's gone missing on Nanga Parbat, a giant peak
in Pakistan, nicknamed the Killer Mountain.
Two military helicopters are searching
for Tom Ballard and Italian Daniele Nardi
as they lost contact over a week ago.
MAN on TV: Tom Ballard, part of
an East Midlands mountaineering dynasty,
is regarded as one of the world's finest alpinists.
He posts regular updates of his exploits
to his thousands of followers online.
His last update was nine days ago.
Life is "like a holiday,
"while we wait for that elusive weather window."
He hasn't been seen since Sunday.
So... we've got Tom and Daniele
somewhere high on the spur, the comms aren't working,
and that's the last concrete information we have.
Kate is in South Africa
and she said, "How long, Dad? How long?"
And I said, "Look, you know," I said, "You know me,
"I'm not given to snatching at things in the air,
"nor am I given to, you know, letting my emotions run away."
But seven to ten days, no problem.
You know, the boy will be cold,
he might have a bit of frostbite,
he'll certainly be really bad-tempered,
but that's the thing we have to remember.
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
JIM: Hi, Kate. Hello.
KATE: Can you hear me? JIM: Yes, I can hear you.
KATE: I was just talking to Luigi,
that's Daniele's other brother,
and he said if I was gonna call you,
then maybe I could just update you.
That would be very nice, Kate.
KATE: So helicopters took off this morning to go have a look,
uh, at, uh, possible sighting.
Um, what they saw, they can't see clearly,
but what they could see is that the two, the two bodies,
and they are bodies because they're not moving.
If they are bodies, 80% sure they are bodies.
One is wearing orange, one is wearing blue.
Or they can't be a 100% sure but like I said,
they're not moving, so...
Okay, dear. Okay. And, uh...
KATE: S-so that's what he just told me.
Okay. So how are you bearing up with that?
(KATE SOBBING)
JIM: It's heart-breaking, Kate. I'm, I'm sorry.
You know, I wish I could, I wish I could say something
that could make you feel better at the moment.
Um...
(KATE SNIFFLES)
You, you, you, you really do need to try and find,
uh, something to do and help,
that-that takes your mind off it so that you can, you can
go back to, to, to trying to remember the good times,
the great times, and, um...
KATE: I don't wanna, Dad, as far as I'm concerned,
I'm not willing to talk and think about the good times,
and any, like, any, uh...
I'm not, we, until we find Tom, until the rescue is called off,
I'm not gonna think of the situation like Tom is dead,
I don't, I'm not willing to accept it
until the rescue is being called off one way or the other.
Okay, okay. So I'm not willing to listen to anyone
that has anything to say about Tom being dead,
because, quite frankly, I know Tom so well
and I know that he can get himself out of any situations.
Okay, Kate... So if that is, perhaps, Tom lying there,
then, as far as I'm concerned,
he's still alive and we need to go and get him.
JIM: Yeah, well, I'm sure, I'm sure there's a lot of people
feel that, the same as you do, Kate.
D-do you want to talk later? Shall I ring you--
KATE: I'll talk to you later. Okay, dear.
Okay? Lots of love. KATE: Bye.
Lots of hugs. Talk to you later. Au revoir.
KATE: Sure. Au revoir. Au revoir, dear.
Well, that's how some people cope,
and, unfortunately, it seems to be the way
Kate is coping, and it's not a, a happy experience
'cause there's nothing I can say.
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
JIM: I suppose what, what is frustrating Kate
is the fact is, it is out of her control.
Probably we will not know very much
about what was found on the mountain
till the search is finished,
but, you know, there is still a chance.
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
Hello, very good evening to you.
Rescuers have found the bodies
of the missing British mountaineer, Tom Ballard,
and his Italian climbing companion, Daniele Nardi,
in Pakistan.
Contact was lost with the pair almost two weeks ago during an ascent
of one of the world's highest mountains,
Nanga Parbat, in the Himalayas.
Mr. Ballard is the son of Alison Hargreaves,
who died on a mountain peak, too.
REPORTER: (ON TV) After hours of searching from
Pakistani helicopters and special teams from Spain,
the Italian ambassador to Pakistan announced
the search was over, as the bodies had been spotted.
Alex Txikon was part of the search team
and was one of the first to climb Nanga Parbat
in the winter, just three years ago.
ALEX: Not so good news, we spotted the bodies
of Daniele Nardi and Tom Ballard.
They are in quite difficult and high altitude area,
which is impossible for us to reach there.
Really super risky to attempt
any, any, any rescue missions.
They will stay for always on Nanga Parbat.
You know, it's a very, very sad moment.
REPORTER: Tom Ballard's mother Alison Hargreaves, was killed
in a storm while descending from the summit of K2,
the world's second-highest mountain,
about a 100 miles away from where Tom died.
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
PILOT: As captain, I welcome you onboard on flight TK451.
After another two to three minutes, uh, uh,
you will, people sitting on the right will be able to see
Nanga Parbat and, uh, we'll commence, insha Allah, descent,
uh, after ten minutes...
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
KATE: It's six months since we lost Tom.
He and Daniele are still up there,
at peace, on Nanga Parbat.
I've been to collect Tom's passport.
That's a big relief to have
that small red book back in the family's possession.
But it's, it's papers, you know?
It's not, it's not actually Tom.
So... It's just paperwork.
The most important thing now for me
is to meet the Italian ambassador of Pakistan.
He supervised over the search and rescue efforts
after Tom and Daniele went missing.
So he'll have more information about
what actually happened to Tom and Daniele.
What happens in, in Nanga Parbat, apparently,
is, on that, on the...
...on that route, is that snow comes down...
And it snows heavily.
Then it kind of freezes
and accumulates
and when it's too heavy, it just goes down.
And that happens every three to six hours.
So one idea is that there may have been a ice avalanche,
a serac, which hit them.
It was certainly not a snowstorm
because a snowstorm would've wiped out everything.
And, uh, Alex Txikon,
who we enlisted for the rescue operation,
inferred from the position of the bodies
and, uh, the general conditions
of how they were found,
that they may have died a different way,
which was, uh, as they were coming down,
they were still roped,
and, uh, Tom was possibly,
because he's, he's kind of hanging
in a, in an awkward position in the ropes,
he might have gotten tangled in the ropes.
Daniele was going up to try to, to cut the ropes
or, you know, get freed of the ropes,
and they may have been victim of climate,
of the minus-50 degrees, and may have died that way.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(IN ENGLISH) Alex Txikon used those words.
"They have died a cruel death."
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
I'm sorry. I thought you actually were aware of all this.
No, no, no. Not aware of that at all.
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
We've, of course, we don't, didn't ever think
we knew exactly what had happened,
but the story that we took onboard was that...
they climbed, they went to bed in their tent,
probably very cold up at that altitude,
and sometime during the night,
while they were peacefully asleep,
probably dreaming about climbing,
that a serac from high above them broke off
and the force just ripped them straight out of their tent
and threw them off the mountain,
and they would've died immediately on impact,
uh, from the force, just as,
just as we believe, happened to mum,
that she wouldn't have felt anything,
it just happened so suddenly
that you don't, and that he was asleep.
That was, so that was kind of reassuring for us,
and that's been for the last however many months
since the accident, that's what we have thought happened.
And now today, to have heard...
that they were hanging,
dangling, dying slowly,
fully aware of what was going on, um...
And that, and, uh,
his exact words were that it was a, a, a cruel death.
That's, that's really big news.
I could be happier and live easier
knowing that he was at peace.
But to hear that he could've been really suffering
for a long time, and we couldn't get to them
is heartbreaking.
(CHURCH BELL TOLLING)
JIM: When I wake up in the morning,
I'm perfectly well aware
that, since that day, uh, when the news came through,
my world would be completely different...
Because...
I never saw a way in which Tom
would come to grieve on mountains early.
Goes right down the side...
It still doesn't seem real sometimes.
You know, I don't, I don't think it isn't real,
but it is difficult to see it as real.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
I think you just have to accept
that Tom is not coming back,
just like his mum didn't,
and you have to work out a way of living with it.
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
JIM: The last floods, Tom, were just after your mum died,
and it was like the mountain shedding tears for her.
It just rained and rained and stormed and stormed.
And it washed all the roads out.
Your mum's spirit is still here.
It's only your mum's body that's gone.
That doesn't matter, Tom, your mum's spirit is in
all these mountains, she's probably just coming back
from a good day's climbing today.
There'll be no rest for anybody in heaven if your mum's around.
Oh, dear.
KATE: In 1995 dad brought Tom and I here for a journey to K2,
which was mum's last mountain.
But now the most important thing for me is, I'm going to
trek to Nanga Parbat base camp to visit Tom's last mountain.
It's kind of history repeating itself.
I was only four at the time.
And, yeah, so the only part of the trek I remember
is that I had a minder.
I had Big Ibrahim, as we called him,
and I, I remember his smell.
I remember his smell. A nice smell, not a bad smell.
Just a, a warm, safe smell from,
'cause I think I slept a lot on his, on his neck.
I just remember him always looking after me.
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(IBRAHIM SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
Go across the bridge. I want to go across the bridge.
You wanna go across the bridge?
You're gonna cross the bridge with Ibrahim?
I think you can go anywhere with Ibrahim.
(ALL CHEERING)
I feel a little bit nervous. (LAUGHS)
Not nervous, but I've got butterflies.
So it's been 25 years since I've seen him.
Pretty excited.
MAN 1: Yeah, have a look.
MAN 2: That's him. MAN 1: Yeah.
MAN 2: Can I come? Okay, I'll leave it down here.
(CAR DOOR OPENS)
Hello. Hello, how are you?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
How do you? Uh, good.
(CHUCKLES)
Good? Yeah, yeah. Welcome. Thank you for having me here.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
You're well? Yes. Yes. Yes. You're well? Okay.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(CHUCKLES)
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Long time. Yes. Yes, yes.
I'm big now. (LAUGHS)
Still smaller than you.
MAN 1: Good? Yes.
Just to translate, yes. Mm-hmm.
It's good to be here. Yeah. Yeah.
(CONVERSING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)
(IN ENGLISH) He cannot feel his express... He cannot feel his express.
He's so emotional. KATE: Yeah, same.
(CONVERSING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)
(IN ENGLISH) He feels very regretted because
it is, somehow it is very nice to see her,
but some o-other point,
it's very sad to see her without her brother
because she was, he was carrying her
as a, like, child and with his, with her brother,
and now it is so, so hard to see her. Yeah.
(SNIFFLES)
He said I always hoped I would see her again.
Okay.
JIM: Well done. Thank you, Ibrahim.
Are we there, Daddy? JIM: This is it, love. Yeah.
Thank you.
KATE: I also brought for you...
because it's my favorite photograph.
(SPEAKS IN OTHER LANGUAGE, LAUGHS)
MAN: Can you remember, was Kate heavy on your shoulder?
IBRAHIM: Yeah, little heavy. No.
(LAUGHING)
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
But...
(CLEARS THROAT)
I'm happy Tom and my mum are here.
Yeah.
If anywhere they could be...
It's the most beautiful place in the world,
and it's where they wanted to be.
TOM: I can, Dad.
Oh, look at the mountains, Dad. Look. They're stunning.
I know, the, the sun has come out again, it's licking
the top of that. That's 6,400 meters above sea level.
(CHILDREN CLAMORING)
KATE: Big Ibrahim, he has welcomed us into his home,
and we've had tea and biscuits,
and now he'll join us on our trek to Nanga Parbat.
KATE: Bye-bye. Bye. Yeah.
KATE: Bye. Bye.
(IBRAHIM SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(PRAYING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)
KATE: Somehow the stars have aligned and we will,
God willing, see Nanga Parbat today.
And actually it's a very special day today.
It's, it's Tom's birthday today.
Tom would be 31 today.
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
Happy birthday, Tom.
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
TOM: Even before I was born, I climbed, uh, the Eiger,
inside my mum's, uh, tummy.
She was, um, six months pregnant with me.
I think she had to find it a bit difficult with her bump
to squeeze through.
And then when I was first born,
I was always exposed to this environment,
um, and so that must be...
I mean, mountains are in my blood, I guess.
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
Mummy?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Good job you're going, isn't it?
Mm. Good job.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
TOM: I think you've always got that thing inside you
that says, you know, whether you want to be a footballer
or, or anything like that.
Inside you, you know what you want to be
and you know what you want to do.
It's kind of your calling, if you like.
So then I had kind of, you know, I had a vision
of, you know, I, I knew what I wanted to do then.
MAN: So it's not just a physical thing,
but quite a spiritual experience?
Very much so, yes. Mm.
Definitely, yeah.
MAN: So when you're on the mountains, when you're climbing, you're in touch
with something deeper within you?
TOM: Yes. Yes.
But you never know quite what it is.
It's just, you know, it feels right.
(WIND HOWLING)
JIM: You can tell that he's totally in control.
Totally at peace with himself.
You know, he's now about 70, 80 feet above the floor,
and, I mean, I know as a realist
that if he falls off now,
or certainly fell off higher up,
the chances are he's gonna get very seriously hurt.
I've always thought there is quite a definite line
between good adventure and danger.
And the trick is to make sure
you've always got your feet on the line,
and you don't step over it.
When he's older, it's up to him
how far he takes himself to the edge of that line.
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
Do you remember? IBRAHIM: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. I tried to carry to you.
KATE: You carry him also. Yeah, yeah, also.
KATE: Yeah. You carried both.
This is Kipper, and this came from, this came from my mum.
So, so it's always with me. IBRAHIM: Yeah, yeah.
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
KATE: I don't know how much I remember of my mum
and how much I know of my mum
from her appearance in film
and magazines and newspapers,
and my stories that my dad has told me.
It's difficult to differentiate what's my true memories
and what's come from outside.
Although her physical form is not here,
I feel her in every way,
and especially in the mountains.
Now with Tom also being lost here, it's like I have to spend
even more time here because it's where they are.
Ooh. (PANTING)
MAN 1: Now look, this is Nanga Parbat.
KATE: Big lump of a mountain. MAN 2: It is, isn't it?
KATE: It's ginormous, and we're still very far away.
It's, it's breathtaking.
I can understand why he wanted to climb it.
I wanna climb it, too.
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
Tom was a mountaineer through and through.
He was born to be on the mountains.
He got all of mum's gift for mountaineering.
And I didn't. (LAUGHS)
Whoo-hoo!
In my teenage years
I found myself very jealous of Tom's genius...
TOM: Yeah, nice. Brilliant.
KATE: ...of how talented he was.
Not only that, but also his drive
and how passionate he was about a certain thing.
And I was always like this, like that, enjoyed this,
enjoyed that, loved this, loved that.
Hey, hey, hey, hut, hut, hut...
Tom, there was one thing and it was mountaineering climbing.
Ah!
And that I envied
'cause he just knew.
(GRUNTS) Ah!
TOM: Aw, fucker!
Fuck!
Oh!
(WIND HOWLING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
This is the kitchen, um, food is hanging up from various places,
so we can't be attacked by any animals, wild animals.
Mainly me. Um, we have the stove.
Uh, all the implement... Just a normal kitchen, really.
Also sort of partly living room. Uh, quite open plan.
Um, plenty of fresh air, good ventilation and nice view.
Uh, stone's throw away from the river.
MAN: Yeah, and show me where you sleep.
Uh, uh, I sleep in the van.
The big tent, my father sleeps in there.
That's where we keep all the stuff in there.
And I sleep in, in the van.
Uh, obviously, it's full of climbing gear and...
MAN: Uh, Comfortable? Yeah, it's very comfortable.
Yeah. Very comfortable. Uh, in winter it's a bit cold.
And do you miss living in a, in a house with a bedroom?
Uh, not especially, but... no. Not especially, no.
You're used to this now? Well, yeah.
Been living like this, or even just without the kitchen,
just with the van, uh, for the last, uh, four or five years,
so it's quite normal for me now.
(MUSIC PLAYING ON CAR STEREO)
JIM: There is something very simple and very primeval
about having only one thing to do.
We had nothing else to do but climb the routes
that Tom wanted to climb.
We just had enough money.
We just had enough equipment in the early days.
And that's what we did,
which is what made Tom what he was.
His training was like you would train for Olympics.
Today dry tooling.
Training for the winter...
in summer. (LAUGHS)
MAN: Yeah. (LAUGHS)
This is not winter. We're not, we're not tough.
MAN: It's, uh, virtual ice, virtual snow.
Yeah, you have to imagine it's cold,
there is ice, there is snow.
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
TOM: When I'm climbing I become a part of the mountain itself
and that, and that becomes a part of me.
Um, like, for instance, I'm, I'm a moving rock or a piece of ice.
You're becoming more, more in tune with the mountain.
It's a completely different experience.
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
Because of my sort of circumstances and my,
the way I am personally
and the fact that I prefer to be on my own,
I prefer to be away from people.
And the way we sort of live in a campsite, I think
that's just a help because I've become fitter.
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
STEFY: Always training. He never stopped.
He had, uh, super energy.
I always thought he wasn't, uh, he wasn't part of this world.
He was like, uh, an alien.
Do you say an alien? MAN: An alien.
An alien. An alien. Yeah, yeah. (LAUGHS)
He wasn't human. (LAUGHS)
(WAVES CRASHING)
(SEAGULLS SQUAWKING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
STEFY: How did I fall in love with Tom?
Uh, I liked him, first of all, because he was different.
He had a completely different lifestyle.
Out of the ordinary, you know?
No, he was cool, I mean, because he was authentic.
He was a, a pure person.
He just liked to climb, to be in nature
and to live as he wanted was important for him.
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
Of course he made room in his life for me
because we climbed together.
It wouldn't have been possible if I wasn't a climber.
It wouldn't even have started.
(EAGLE SCREECHING)
I like my life with him because
we could have adventures together,
we could share things.
And that's the most important thing.
The first time actually we kissed, (LAUGHS)
it was, uh, when we climbed the first route,
the first ascent of Baptism of Fire, actually, called it.
Uh, and, yeah, we were both, uh, 26 when we met.
MAN: Now tilting your head.
Ha-ha. Yeah, it's funny. Funny?
Back with the... Like this? Yes.
STEFY: When I first knew him, he wasn't well known.
Oh, proper climate, eh?
But the project that made him stand out
was the six north faces.
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
He was called to do lectures,
they made a film of him.
And so I think his life changed,
and everybody wanted to know him for sure,
somebody so special.
Hello. Hi, nice to meet you.
I met your mother a few times. Mm.
In the, in the '80s. And I did a book on women climbing.
TOM: Yeah, Women On Top. And in this book...
I say openly she was the greatest mountaineer ever.
Yeah, I think that's true. She's not yet...
No, no one's even close, I think. Nobody's even got close.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
And you're now becoming a professional mountaineer?
Yeah. Okay. Okay. All the best.
TOM: Thank you very much. After you.
Complimente. Ah, thank you very much.
You are very, very figo.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(LAUGHS)
STEFY: Everybody loved Tom.
Everybody loved Tom.
My mum was in love with him, oh, my God.
Everybody was in love in my family with Tom. (LAUGHS)
My brothers loved him.
Grazie. You're welcome.
STEFY: He was simple.
He was simple and very nice with everybody.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Have a nice evening. Ciao.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
But then, of course, he couldn't judge
people and...
Like a child, you know,
that you give him a sweet, he takes it
even if it's not good.
(APPLAUSE)
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
ALESSANDRA: Daniele always, uh, wanted to be recognized
as a good mountaineer.
He said he felt like he was always an outcast
because he, he came from the south,
because he was not, he told me,
"For-for most people in Italy, I'm not credible."
He wanted to be credible as a mountaineer
because all the important, the biggest mountaineers, uh,
Italian mountaineers, are from the north.
Here people take the boat and go to sea, you know?
They don't climb the mountains,
so he was a, he was an outcast,
but he was also a real fighter.
(WIND HOWLING)
Whoo! Windy!
JIM: He was 42, so he was much older than Tom.
An impressive Himalayan record.
Climbed some big peaks.
But I've never met the guy,
I'd never heard of him until Tom told me
that Daniele had suggested they become climbing partners.
And I think that Daniele realized what a tour de force
Tom was capable of delivering.
DANIELE: Soft snow, huh? Yeah, it's not very nice.
(DANIELE LAUGHS)
The first time we met Daniele, it was in Germany 2016.
He went climbing with him, and, yeah,
for sure he had some experience, Daniele,
I won't say no,
but for sure he wasn't even close as talented as Tom.
Tom, he was... How you say? In Italian we say...
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(IN ENGLISH) He was one of the best in the world.
MAN: Tom? Tom, yeah.
(LAUGHS)
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(LAUGHS) Yeah!
ALESSANDRA: Daniele told me that Tom was very strong,
very technical and very focused.
And Daniele thought that he could be a good companion.
The best companion, maybe.
(CONVERSING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)
STEFY: I wasn't happy about him going there.
And I tried to convince, to persuade him not to go.
But then I also thought, "Okay, I can't really,
"because it is his life,
"and if he wants to go, he must go."
ALESSANDRA: This expedition was going to be
Daniele's fifth attempt to the summit,
but through the Mummery Spur.
He always told me at the beginning,
"I'm not going to Nanga Parbat,
"I'm going to the Mummery Spur.
"The Mummery Spur is the challenge for me."
(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
There are various routes up Nanga Parbat,
the Kinshofer Route and the Messner Route,
but Daniele wasn't interested in those.
He wanted to go up Nanga Parbat through the Mummery Spur,
which has still not been climbed.
He loved that route because he told me
that it was the most direct to the top
and it was, uh, it was the most elegant.
If you look at the mountain,
it's like a finger pointing to the top,
and he was in love with this fact.
He was with love, in love with the elegance, you know?
(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
(RUMBLING)
But he talked also about the fact
that this spur could be very dangerous.
(WIND HOWLING)
Super dangerous. Super dangerous.
It's one of the craziest places
that I ever been in my life, believe me.
(RUMBLING)
ALEX: It's much more dangerous and risky
than, than, than hard and technical.
It's so dangerous, I will show you right now. Look at here.
These seracs is totally crazy.
MAN: This is huge, great blocks of ice?
Yes, it's all, it's ice, and it's more
than 100 meters of height.
ALEX: When this serac fell down,
even the avalanches reached to the base camp,
And-and-and-this is like an, it's big explosion.
It's, it's, it's huge. It's massive. It's giant.
(RUMBLING)
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(RUMBLING)
(MAN CONTINUES SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
(RUMBLING)
MAN: So when you heard that Daniele and Tom wanted to climb
the Mummery Spur at that time of the year...
I wasn't scared, this, this 7th of January,
I wasn't scared because I knew
that Daniele has the experience.
But with Nanga Parbat,
sometimes I think climber will become obsessed,
and I think Daniele was a little bit obsessed
with-with Mummery Spur.
For me, Mummery is the best dream I can imagine.
Okay, so I use all my energy
and my power to do it for three years.
Daniele Nardi was with us
on the attempts on Nanga Parbat 2014/15, 15/16.
You sure of that? Yes, I bring 2,000 meter rope.
He knew very well that we show to the world that Nanga Parbat
was possible in winter by the Kinshofer Route.
But for Daniele that's not enough, the classical route.
Daniele Nardi wants to show, in my opinion,
to the world, that I'm here,
I'm Daniele Nardi and I will try from Mummery route.
(CONVERSING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)
(PANTING)
Daniele was a good climber,
but, I think, was drunk on ambition.
But for Tom,
you know, if you are driving in a car, okay, I'm...
How you say in English? Say high... When you're...
MAN 14: Hitchhiking. Hitchhiking? The...
And the car stop to you, "Hey, hello."
But you are with a, a man that is totally drunk
and you take the decision to go with him,
and then you crash, and both of you died.
You know, you take your decision.
STEFY: Uh, climbing, alpinism is not for heroes.
It's not a right thing that
you must be there in danger for months.
It wasn't Tom's style.
I mean, it was completely stupid.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(LAUGHING)
Before he left, he left some stuff here in Fassa Valley
in my house, and I thought,
"Fuck, this may be is the last time he is here."
I had that feeling it was the last time I would see him.
I don't know. Strange. Premonition, you call it?
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(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Yeah! Ooh.
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
KATE: I think we're nearing Halala Bridge.
It seems to be the, uh, starting point for our trek.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
I just feel so happy from inside.
I can't, I can't stop smiling, even though, obviously,
it's, it's horrible circumstances.
But it doesn't take away the beauty
and the joy of the mountains in this place.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
JIM: I think, for Kate,
it comes down to a trip of two halves.
I think first of all
there's the joy of meeting with Big Ibrahim.
Then, I think, she'll enjoy seeing, uh, where Tom lies,
and, uh, covering the terrain that Tom covered.
Except, of course, it will be entirely different in the sense
that, that she's there's in autumn
and he was there in deep winter.
♪ The army you're not Behind the plough ♪
♪ You're in the army now ♪
♪ You're not behind a plough You'll never get rich... ♪
(MAN WHISTLING)
(IBRAHIM SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
MAN: Yeah. Yeah.
It's great. I love it. Yeah.
Oh, it just feels so natural, it's nice.
But happy. Yeah, yeah. MAN: Happy?
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
He's happy that I'm walking and not on his shoulders.
(LAUGHING)
You know? Yeah, yeah. (LAUGHS)
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
KATE: I don't think that the roles have changed in any way.
He's most definitely still my minder, and looking after me.
But I'm very conscious of, of his health as well.
It's slightly worrying a little bit how heavy he's breathing.
He had to stop a lot and, um,
he just doesn't seem like he's in the best of shapes.
He's retired, so it's understandable.
But we're walking together the whole way,
so we'll take care of each other.
(PANTING)
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(LAUGHS)
Nice snow.
DANIELE: You're enjoying? Yeah, it's good fun.
Not so easy with these boots, but...
DANIELE: Yeah. Better than walking.
Sure. With snowshoes. Ha-ha...
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
ALESSANDRA: I spent with them, uh,
three weeks going to the base camp,
then I spent some days there, and then I came back.
And, um, I had the feeling that Tom was really,
at the beginning, was really excited to be there.
And, uh, they were really nice together. Really nice.
They took care of each other in a, in a very tender way.
They were like brothers.
And they, they just could look each other
and understand what they were thinking or what to do.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(PANTING)
I don't know Tom so well.
He was so sweet, but I think there was anger.
Ah!
Like, uh, a knot of anger
that can explode sometimes.
And, uh...
yes, and sadness, yeah.
I think he also felt the pressure
of being Alison's son.
All these stories about his mother,
how great she was, uh, how extraordinary she was.
She was an inspiration, but she was also, um,
a very heavy heritage.
The way she died
put her in a place where now she's untouchable.
Ah! Higher, higher, higher.
Bit right, bit right.
Not good.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Go! Go!
(LAUGHING)
I don't know how you organized this expedition
without beer, without wine, without vodka,
without (SIGHS) whisky?
No brandy. Fuck.
DANIELE: Karim, really, I do it
because you are Pakistani, so I told...
Come on, man. Why you didn't ask us?
DANIELE: Because I say they are Islam,
they pray five times a day, so...
Islam is moderate Islam now.
DANIELE: More? Yeah, we can drink.
Really? Yeah.
Ha-ha... I love it.
KARIM: In the beginning it was, uh,
you know, it was first time with them.
Four of us, you know, we had a good relation,
we were understanding each other.
We were learning from each other, you know?
We had a good team I think, yeah.
Here, Mr. Rahmat.
And, uh, Tom wants to try some overhangings.
Wow, great, man.
Tom was the youngest in our team.
Was really great person.
And I thought this is a good partner, you know?
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
TOM: It snowed over yesterday,
so I'm breaking the trail to camp one.
Um, we gotta find a new way across the glacier
because the, the way that we came last,
uh, the serac is falling down.
Very cold today. Very clear.
Absolutely amazing.
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
We climbed mob handed to establish Camp 1 before returning to Base Camp
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
TOM: Uh, it's very cold, we'll stay here tonight,
then move up to camp two or even camp three tomorrow,
depending on the snow conditions.
Hopefully there'll be some avalanches tonight,
clear the snow,
otherwise it's gonna be hard work.
(SNIFFLES)
(RUMBLING)
(WIND HOWLING)
(DANIELE SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
I have seen huge, huge crevices there that,
which I didn't see before.
(RUMBLING)
KARIM: It was terrifying and we have emotions
to reach higher and higher,
but if something happened while climbing there,
you won't survive.
(RUMBLING)
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(WIND HOWLING)
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
(WIND GUSHING)
TOM: Weather's not the best today,
but, uh, it's hard work
on the way to camp three.
Tough snow.
There's spindrift.
Fortunately not too cold.
(SIGHS) Cold enough.
Hard work.
KARIM: Three days, four days, five days.
Sometimes seven days snowfall.
It destroyed the trail, it destroyed the camps.
Oh. It's gone. DANIELE: Yeah.
If it were, I'm sure it's still there.
And I think everything inside will be fine,
but, you know, the tent, I don't know, maybe it's broken.
Poles may be broken. This very place.
DANIELE: Somewhere underneath the snow is the tent.
From this, it's come down, you know?
DANIELE: Yeah, yeah.
That line leads to the tent.
Somewhere underneath the snow.
STEFY: Just stupid. I mean...
Ugh.
He should have been organized one month before.
He didn't take much to think about that.
If you know that it's very snowy in February...
I mean, it's not snowy like here.
Also, here you can die from an avalanche.
But there, why you want to be there in February?
(GRUNTING) Yeah.
STEFY: I don't understand.
I mean, you lose your life. You're playing with your life.
I didn't thought that Tom was so reckless.
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
Yeah. Okay.
Two hours to find the day.
The tent. The tent. One tent.
We need to find that, the other one
under one m-meter of, of snow.
I think the Yeti stole the tent.
Yeti.
KARIM: Do you think we'll find another tent tomorrow?
I hope so. We have to find.
KARIM: If we don't find, we no have more kambals
for you and for Rahmat.
TOM: Yeah, that's a big problem.
KARIM: It's a problem.
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
TOM: So we, uh, arrived at camp three,
but, uh, it doesn't exist anymore.
Camp three is buried underneath the snow.
Uh, we dug three holes, three tunnels.
(EXHALES SHARPLY) Can't find anything at all.
Um, and now the,
uh, the wind is picking up high up.
Uh, some very interesting clouds.
So time to go down.
Uh, we have to go back down to base camp,
uh, reorganize, and then, uh,
when the weather's good, try again.
In this moment, in this moment
I decided to stop climbing here
because I felt this is a signal
to leave the mountain.
I told Daniele, "Look, Daniele,
"it's time to go out."
And what he said, "Karim, I know this mountain very well.
"I want to reach the summit."
I said, "It's up to you.
"I don't want to lose my life here."
And I told them... I want to go.
And he, he, he said, "Are you scared?"
I said, "No, I'm not scared.
"I'm not scared, but I can come back,
"I can climb again."
(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
KARIM: When Tom brought my gear, which I left in camp two,
and he brought his harness,
I thought he would, uh, abandon the expedition
and join me to return to home.
(PANTING)
Of course, he was listening the mountains
and watching the weather,
watching the dangerous conditions.
I don't know why he didn't listen at the end,
at the last moment, at the last chance,
that he continued.
This I didn't understand.
(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
When they had to stay almost 20 days
after me in base camp...
they didn't realize the danger from the mountain.
I think Daniele convinced Tom
that they can reach the summit.
STEFY: I don't know, I think that guy...
Mmm-mmm...
Tom, he never judged people.
He never said even half a bad word about anybody.
He couldn't even see
if a person was using him in any way.
And I'm really scared is that he, that guy manipulated him.
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
ALESSANDRA: For sure, I can tell you
that Daniele didn't manipulate Tom.
It was not manipulation.
Tom was really much smarter than this.
It was like saying that he was a little bit dumb, you know?
Little bit stupid.
(PANTING)
Tom was brilliant. He was not stupid, not at all.
You don't go to Nanga Parbat
if you're not really, really committed.
I don't know why Tom was committed, but he was.
Ah.
What a fantastic evening.
Look at the light. Incredible.
But absolutely stunning.
(ISLAMIC CALL TO PRAYER)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(ISLAMIC CALL TO PRAYER CONTINUES)
(WIND HOWLING)
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
TOM: I'm a moving rock or a piece of ice.
I have to be in harmony. Pushing your own personal...
Never fighting against the mountain because you can't.
They let you, and other times they won't.
They'll always win in the end.
We have to work with them.
You have to be in harmony.
ALESSANDRA: The mountain change you in a way
that if you don't, if you don't experience it,
you cannot really understand it.
You are... It can make you another person.
Things or decisions that, uh,
here you would never, never take,
there they seem possible.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
I think that after two months there,
probably they were not like us.
Yes, for sure. For sure.
They were functioning in another way
because their body changed there,
deeply, strongly.
STEFY: I think he was skinnier. He lost weight.
He didn't look fine.
I don't know, I see sufferance in his eyes.
I don't know why.
I never been anxious about him that much.
I say, "Now, now stop it, come back."
I wanted to buy him a ticket to come back also.
The last message I sent him
was that I'm not happy you're climbing,
and I said, "It's dangerous," and he say,
"Bah, no. It's my job."
"If you don't like it, leave me.'
I said then, "Better," I mean, because...
I don't know, I wasn't happy.
I don't know. He sent me a broken heart.
That's it. We didn't leave each other in a nice way.
Mm-mm.
It was very hard, and then after a few days
I said, "This has to be the end."
"Love of my life, if I had never told you." (SNIFFLES)
(WIND HOWLING)
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
ALEX: I was climbing on K2, at the time,
but was asked to lead the search for the two mens.
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
Daniele Nardi and Tom Ballard, they had not made contact
with base camp for many days.
Uh, the last communication, it was with, uh, with Khaleel Bhai.
They were on camp four on the, on the ridge, on the Mummery.
You can, can you see the cave? Yes.
It's like a cave. Yes.
They were somewhere in, in, in that area.
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
ALEX: Where is Mummery?
ALEX: All of the responsibility from the family
is my responsibility, so I can't make any mistake,
and I must find, I must find.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
I'm moving from one side of the helicopter to the other side,
from one side, and, uh, with one hand with my camera,
yes, recording for something, but I was with my eye
and totally focused... and cleaning the window.
I press a little bit more
for the pilot to slowly take me here,
but, "No, Alex, the fuel, the fuel, the fuel, the fuel,
"it's too risky, too risky."
But I told him why we can't do
just here, here, here, here, here?
For me, this 35 minutes,
they were, uh, eternal.
I saw something strange in one small rocky point
and so I flew with drone.
(DRONE WHIRRING)
I saw first a pole, something like black
and then something orange...
and I think in my mind, "Oh, if avalanche crashed to them
"and they were in their sleeping bags,"
was like, ooh,
chills going on in my, my body.
Uh, and I start digging and digging, digging,
digging the snow.
We find, uh, the camp two tent
from Daniele and Tom totally destroyed.
Inside, uh, we see one sleeping bags,
some pickaxes, no mattresses.
And as you can see here, nothing.
No evidences of life.
Today ten days. Yes.
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
JIM: I think Tom would've found...
Well, I don't think, I know Tom would've found
the, the organizing rescues
and people leaping in and out of helicopters and all that
really, really offensive.
Tom would never expect anybody to rescue him.
Uh, nor would his mother.
They would have expected to get themselves off.
If you can't get yourselves off
when you are playing the game at the top,
then you don't deserve to come off.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
ALEX: You know, the hardest thing for me, Chris,
was that I walk in their track.
In their track that was made
by the foot of Tom and Daniele.
This was the hardest moment for me in this rescue action.
It was like a message, it was like, something like,
wow, so painful, this moment.
On March 5, we continued to climbing up.
We-we did twice, okay? Up and down, up and down.
And we are here,
in the craziest place that we can be there.
Oh, this time very dangerous, the Mummery.
So I think 200 meters and then we are more safe, no, Ali?
Uh, but now we are not safe. Okay.
Not sure, you know, if they, some seracs fell down,
we are not safe, not this time.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(RUMBLING)
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(RUMBLING)
ALEX: We hear all the time, the seracs,
how they were crashing, you know?
And we could not risk anymore, any single life
or any single second more in this crazy place,
so we moved to the base camp.
We were, there was a telescope at this point with a tripod.
I-I took the telescope and I thought, "Give me a chance."
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
ALEX: Ali, Ali, look... Come here, come here, come here.
Anchor there. Rope. Rope. ALI: Yes, yes, this is rope.
ALEX: And the, the bodies are here, you see?
ALI: Down. Look, look down. Look.
ALEX: In less than 15 seconds, I found them.
This is, you see rope? Fifteen seconds.
ALI: Look, look, look, Alex, Alex.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
ALEX: I found the anchor here,
I follow down there, down there, down there,
and immediately here, as you can see here,
this is Tom, down there on the fixed rope,
and up is Daniele.
(CLACKING)
ALESSANDRA: When Alex Txikon found them, finally at last...
and I knew how they were found,
that they were close
and linked with a rope,
I thought that at least they were not alone.
MAN: They were together. Yeah, they were together.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Good? Very nice.
STEFY: It was his destiny.
I don't know, I don't, I don't know if I believe in destiny.
We choose. It's our path.
And I can't blame anybody about his death, you know?
Because why?
It's not even fair to blame
the climber that he was with.
He choose to be there, so it's not fair.
It was his choice, and we have to respect it.
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
KATE: Tom was, above all, a solo climber.
That's where he excelled.
And I have found myself at times thinking,
I wish he'd have just stuck to solo climbing.
If he could've been soloing,
it would've been a different outcome for Tom.
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
(APPLAUSE)
(GUNSHOT)
JIM: Tom was a mountain warrior.
His mum was a mountain warrior.
You know, Tom will be 30 forever...
at the peak of his physical...
doing what he wanted to do,
where he wanted to do.
And if nature took him back, there's nothing we can do...
apart from raise our hats...
to a life well-lived.
JIM: Hey? You sad?
Hey. Don't be sad.
Look, there's a little cloud right against it.
Tom, there's a little cloud right above the top of K2.
Do you know it's your mum waving to you?
You see, there's one little one there waving.
Looks like an angel's wings. Can you see it?
TOM: Is that mummy? JIM: It could be.
Can you see it? Right above the summit.
KATE: Yeah. Is that mummy, daddy?
JIM: Well, I think it's a sign that your mum knows you're here.
Can you see her, Tom?
KATE: She's, she's always there, isn't she?
JIM: That's right, she's always there.
(VOCALIZING)
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(IBRAHIM CONTINUES SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
KATE: I wanted to...
embrace the mountain.
I wanted to see what he'd seen,
try and understand
what went through his mind...
and just try to get a grasp
of, of how he might have felt being here.
Nice snow.
And I have completely achieved that.
And I know what has happened, I know where he's gone,
I know that his body is never coming back,
but his spirit will live on forever.
And it'll live on in me and in the mountains
and in everyone that was ever close to him.
JIM: Gonna turn and give me a smile?
KATE: It's almost like mum's cradling him,
and they'll be together forever now.
I wish I could be with them.
But I've still got dad,
and dad and I will pull through this together.
And as hard as it is, we know...
that they did what they wanted to do.
(SNIFFLES)
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)
Whoo-hoo! Yoo-hoo!
(KATE SIGHING)
KATE: It is difficult to not dwell on what's happened,
of course.
And it's not something that I'm over in that sense.
It's, uh, it'll be an ongoing process,
I think, my entire life.
Then it'll get easier, hopefully,
in years to come.
But there is only forward to look.
There's no point looking back. I'm not going that way.
That's a wonderful thing to hear, Kate. Absolutely.
I mean, I think since Tom died,
Kate and I have developed a bond
which is, I suppose, really, truly spiritual.
And th-that's how I feel.
And the thing that I never expected to do
was be able to share her adventures and joys
and sadnesses
in a way that gave me
unbelievable warmth and pleasure.
KATE: Coming from a climbing legacy,
I always felt just great pride.
But because mum and Tom were so extraordinary,
I almost have a duty to them to be extraordinary, too,
and not just be the average Joe
and to be a little bit more special.
Ooh!
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
My mum and brother, the wind beneath my wings.
I feel your heart beating.
It's wonderful.
Just like when I carried you over to the window.
It was a windowsill I carried you over to, when you were born.
It was. (CHUCKLES)
If I'd have known what a nuisance you were, I'd have taken you back.
(LAUGHING)
Have you got one in blue?
(LAUGHING)
JIM: Go, Kate, go.
Keep waving.
Oh, well done, lass.
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)