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(upbeat music)
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- [Narrator] 8,000 miles
from the sun and surf
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of California, far away at
the southern end of Argentina,
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lies a wild land
called Patagonia.
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From California by
car, by boat, on foot,
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four men came to
climb a mountain
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that had been climbed
only twice before.
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Four men.
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Yvon Chouinard,
internationally known climber.
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Doug Tompkins,
climber, skier, surfer.
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Dick Dorworth, champion
skier, novice climber.
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And a young English
climber, Chris Jones.
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The mountain is an 11,000 foot
pile of glacier and granite.
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It's got sheer
walls, cliffs of ice,
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wild wind, and bitter cold.
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It's called Fitz Roy and
their objective, the summit.
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(wind blowing)
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(hammering)
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Six months out of the year,
Yvon Chouinard is a blacksmith.
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He makes mountain-climbing
gear, much of it by hand,
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some of the best there is.
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The other half of
the year, he climbs.
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He's got an international
reputation and it's growing.
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(hammering)
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The shop's about to close
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because Yvon and his
friends Doug Tompkins
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and Dick Dorworth
have an appointment
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with a mountain called Fitz
Roy, far south in Argentina.
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It'll take months
in a second-hand van
just getting there.
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Along the way, there will
be surfing and skiing.
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Well, let's go.
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♪ Running, run, run,
run, run, run, run ♪
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♪ Running, don't know why ♪
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♪ Looking for a place to go ♪
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♪ Always reaching high ♪
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♪ I remember thinking last
time that I was home to stay ♪
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♪ Now I have to leave
that home life ♪
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♪ But I'll be back someday ♪
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- [Narrator] The Pan-American
highway is strung
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like a necklace
over the hemisphere.
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Yvon, Dick, and Doug
follow it through Mexico
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and they'll stay on it
for thousands of miles
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till it peters
out in the jungle.
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And then, any way they can,
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they'll get down to Chile
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where they'll pick up a young
Englishman named Chris Jones.
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He's down there on an
expedition of his own
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and that's good because as it
is there isn't room in the van
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to scratch your head.
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And then on southward,
always southward.
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♪ Watching the road
through dusty windows ♪
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♪ Riding the waves
in (mumbles) ♪
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♪ Me and my van (mumbles) ♪
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♪ Racing away ♪
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(upbeat music)
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- [Narrator] Once
out of North America,
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the cities and towns are as
bright and loud as jungle birds.
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Guatemala City, where
pineapples are a penny each.
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San Salvador, Managua,
Nicaragua, San
Jose in Costa Rica.
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Dick Dorworth's only
begun to climb this year.
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He's listened to Doug
Tompkins and Yvon talk
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about the Argentine expedition
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that recently climbed Fitz Roy
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and he's impatient
to get on with it.
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But South America
demands patience.
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Down here, the clocks
don't run, they walk.
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South of Panama City, the
highway loses itself in jungle
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so for two weeks they kill
time waiting for a boat
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to take the van across
the Caribbean to Colombia,
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where the road starts again.
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A haircut can save trouble
at South American borders
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and there are a lot
of them to cross
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before they get to Fitz Roy.
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In the marketplace, Doug
Tompkins has his fortune told
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by a brightly
colored little bird
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who chooses a
message just for him.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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Your family is thinking of you.
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(calm music)
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- [Doug] It's really pretty
hard to say sometimes
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why you'd get in a truck
and drive 18,000 miles
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to climb some mountain.
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You never really thought
about the motives.
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You never really sat down
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and analyzed just why
you were gonna do that.
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It probably would scare you.
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- [Narrator] From
Colon in Panama,
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the boat crosses to
Cartagena in Colombia.
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The highway picks
up again and unwinds
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through Colombia and Ecuador
and then down into Peru.
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Doug and Yvon keep an
eye on the Pacific surf,
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looking for a chance to unstrap
the boards they've brought
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and at Chicama in northern
Peru they find it.
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Waves a mile long
and smooth as glass.
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Yvon's a fine surfer.
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Doug's pretty good at it,
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as he is that almost
everything he tries.
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Dick Dorworth's no surfer
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but he wipes out
with a good grace.
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♪ We wanted to ride the waves ♪
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♪ Just to ride a
mile of ocean blast ♪
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♪ It's a hot, windy summer day ♪
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♪ And it won't be long
till we're standing tall ♪
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♪ Cutting through an ocean
full of shifting walls ♪
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♪ Reaching out to listen
as the seagulls call ♪
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♪ You begin to realize that
you're just that small ♪
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♪ Knowing that the seagull
doesn't care at all ♪
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♪ Gonna ride another wave ♪
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♪ Don't fall, don't tumble ♪
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♪ You're on your own ♪
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♪ Yeah ♪
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(waves rushing)
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- [Narrator] Peruvian surfers
they talk to sent them down
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to the little fishing
village of Cerro Azul.
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(seagulls cawing)
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Across the bay, seabirds
watched as Doug and Yvon decided
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to see what would happen
if you went with the wave
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under that long pier.
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Maybe you'd come out the
other side still standing up.
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(upbeat music)
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They'll sell their
surfboards in Lima.
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The money is getting low
as the road gets long.
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(pouring)
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South America can
be hard on a van
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that was showing her age
when she left California.
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10 or 15 flat tires later
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and even after a
complete engine overhaul,
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she still needs some
encouragement from Yvon.
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It's funny traveling down
the length of the world,
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the seasons turn around on you.
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You start out in the summer
and pretty soon you've gone
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in the back door into spring.
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♪ We're on our way down
the road, miles to go ♪
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♪ Through the seasons ♪
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♪ We're on our way
to the desert again ♪
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♪ It's a rocky road ♪
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♪ We're on our way down
the road, miles to go ♪
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♪ Through the seasons ♪
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♪ We're on our way ♪
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- [Narrator] "You North
Americans," the Peruvian said,
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"are gluttons for fun."
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So they offered
Dick, Doug, and Yvon
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a spine cracking 70
mile an hour ride
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on something that
used to be a jeep
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out over the sand dunes.
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Boys passed on that but they
did join them on the dunes
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to do a little skiing.
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The Peruvians tried
to show them how
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but Dick Dorworth is an
expert skier, a champion,
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and he started teaching them.
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Instead of just
scooting down the dune,
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try some of these link turns.
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Snow skiers have been
doing them for years.
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They tried them out but
what they really liked best
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was just speeding straight
down as fast as they could.
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And Dick could understand
that because it was down here
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that he once set a world
speed record on skis.
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It was in Portillo, Chile.
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A team out to break the world
speed record has prepared
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the slope of ice themselves.
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On the team, Dick Dorworth.
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After months of training,
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he's ready for a ride of
a few flashing seconds
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down the slope to
the transition point,
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where his speed
will be measured.
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- [Dick] The main thing to do
is to keep your body very low
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and keep very far forward,
you know, or like an egg.
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You must maintain
balance at all costs.
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When you start at Portillo,
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it's a commitment that
there's no retreat from.
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The mountain is 80%
steepness so in 50 yards,
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you're going to be going
80 or 90 miles an hour.
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(fast paced music)
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- [Narrator] That's it.
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106 miles an hour
to set the record.
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- [Dick] I haven't run for
speed for quite a while now
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but because of it, it has
enhanced my pleasure skein.
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I have much more fun skiing now
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than I ever had then.
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- [Narrator] Then
try this, Dick.
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Mount Llaima in Chile.
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A live volcano, its smooth lava
slopes, neatly snow packed.
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Maybe the longest
ski run in the world,
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it's like five ski slopes
one on top of another.
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From the little
lodge at its base,
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it's an eight hour
walk to the top.
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Yes, a walk.
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No lifts, not even a rope tow.
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This is skiing as it
was in the beginning
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when you climbed as
high as you could,
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skied as far as you'd
climbed, and then went home.
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Yvon the climber, the
surfer, the mountaineer
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is a duffer on skis,
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about as capable as Dick
Dorworth on a surfboard.
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Dick's watched
him fluff and fall
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but says Yvon's a natural skier.
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Yvon's willing to ski Mount
Llaima but at his own pace.
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Near the top, the
sulfur fumes are thick,
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the rocks are warm,
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and the volcano is breathing
quietly in its sleep.
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Doug?
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- [Doug] The wind was
blowing hard from the north,
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would blow the sulfur
fumes away from us
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so we could get right
to the very edge.
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I mean, right to
the absolute edge
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and stick our ski pole
right off into the smoke
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of the steamy volcano.
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I'd never been
that close before.
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- [Narrator] It's the slope
that skiers go down endlessly
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in their dreams.
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♪ Like a wind blown rose ♪
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♪ I'm falling like
a wind blown rose ♪
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♪ I'm falling like
a wind blown rose ♪
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♪ I'm falling like
a wind blown rose ♪
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(upbeat music)
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- [Narrator] And
here comes Yvon.
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- [Yvon] All the way
down the mountain
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is just one fall after another
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and finally I just gave
up trying to ski it
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and I'd just make a traverse
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and then kick a turn and
then make another traverse
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and I kept doing
that for 5,000 feet.
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- [Narrator] It feels good
to be up on a mountain.
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The cold air in your lungs,
the snow under your feet.
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There's another reason
for the skiing though.
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Their summer softened
bodies are toughening up
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for the snows of Fitz Roy.
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It's September, spring in
the Chilean lake countries
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south of Mount Llaima.
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The skis have been sold
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and the last leg of
the journey takes them
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past white Mount Osorno.
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The further they go, the
less road there is to go on.
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(splashing)
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Here the Andes step
up and out of Chile
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and down again into the
Patagonian desert in Argentina.
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The only way over the
mountains is by hopscotching
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from lake to lake
on little ferries.
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(calm music)
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There's been a change
of plans though.
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It looks like there will only
be three against Fitz Roy.
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The young Englishman
Chris Jones didn't show up
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at the meeting place and
after a few days wait,
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they decided to
go on without him.
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- [Chris] When I realized
I wasn't going to make it
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and that I was going to
miss my friends in Chile,
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I said to myself if
they think they're going
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to climb Fitz Roy without me,
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they've got another
thought coming.
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There's only one
road from the north
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across the Patagonian desert
that takes you to Fitz Roy
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so I decided to hitch a lift
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to a point I knew
they'd have to pass.
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And I was prepared to sit
there all week if necessary,
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waiting for them.
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They were rather
surprised to see me
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but it wasn't until
I got in the van
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that I realized how lucky
I'd been to catch them.
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What if I had fallen asleep
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or it had been
night or something
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and they'd simply
driven straight past me?
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Then where would I have been?
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Not on my way to Fitz
Roy, that's for sure.
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- [Narrator] It was in 1834
that a young English naturalist
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looked out on Patagonia
with something like horror
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at its wild sterility.
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He and the captain of
His Majesty's Ship Beagle
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found the South
American ostrich,
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the wild llama, horses
left by the Spaniards,
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and little else but wasteland.
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The naturalist's name
was Charles Darwin.
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The captain's name
was Robert FitzRoy.
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From 60 miles off,
you first see it.
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Blue with distance but harsh,
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defiant as a clenched fist.
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This is what you've come for
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and from here it doesn't
look difficult to climb,
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it looks impossible.
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- [Man] But first
there's some 60 miles
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of Patagonia to cover.
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The Rio de las Vueltas,
the River of Turns to cross
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and then the road
gives up for good.
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Carrying all our gear
in the van was easy
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but the van had to be left here.
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Pack horses are the only
way to get to the mountain
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and then our own two legs.
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So we thought very carefully
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about what we would really need.
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- [Narrator] The Argentine
army lends a soldier
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along with the horses
to get you to the camp
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at the base of the mountain.
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As far as anyone can remember,
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it was Doug who first
said "Let's do it,
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"let's climb Fitz Roy."
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He's in its shadow
now, a happy man.
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The weather in Patagonia
is as strange and harsh
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as the land.
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The horses and men enjoy
bright sun all morning
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but by afternoon it's raining
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and by evening the
rain's turned to snow.
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♪ No, no, no, no, don't
mind the falling rain ♪
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♪ It feels so cool ♪
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- [Narrator] This campsite
was established by the French
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in 1952 and used again by
the Argentine expedition
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some years later.
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They hurry to set
up some shelter,
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wrestling bags and
gear in the wet cold.
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A little taste of
what's to come.
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But by the next day, Patagonia
has changed its mind.
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The weather is fine again.
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Doug and Yvon will scout
the first part of the route,
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comparing their charts
with the reality,
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while Dick and Chris
finish setting up camp.
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Despite the warm sun,
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they can feel a chill
wind off the glacier.
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Up there, Doug and Yvon
are striking the first blow
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against Fitz Roy.
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- [Man] Fitz Roy is
11,289 feet high.
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Not the highest
mountain we could find
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but as every climber knows,
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the challenge of the
Patagonia Mountains
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isn't necessarily height,
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it's the technical climbing
difficulties and the weather.
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(wind blowing)
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- [Narrator] The charts and
maps don't show the storms
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that brew just 50 miles
away on the Pacific
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or the winds made down on
the continental ice cap
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that comes screaming
across Fitz Roy's glacier.
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Doug and Yvon scout
their planned route
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and it looks possible
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if the wind and weather
will let them take it.
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By late afternoon, they've
surveyed as far as a place
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for a first camp
on the mountain.
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(calm music)
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From base camp to camp one
with equipment and supplies.
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Each of them carries
an 80 pound load.
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No one knows how much time
Fitz Roy will demand of them,
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so day after day they haul
and carry like pack animals,
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making kick steps up
the steep snow fields,
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sunburnt, bone
aching, exhausted.
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♪ The mountains are peaceful
when the morning comes ♪
342
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♪ And the wind will
cover our tracks again ♪
343
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♪ As we lift our
eyes to a fiery sun ♪
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♪ That sparkles on
fingers of ice and stone ♪
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♪ Far above where
the eagle flies ♪
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♪ There's a place where you can
reach out and touch the sky ♪
347
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♪ And all your troubles
just disappear ♪
348
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♪ When the wind is strong
and the air is clear ♪
349
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♪ I say, far above
where the eagle flies ♪
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♪ Is a place where you can
reach out and touch the sky ♪
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♪ And all your troubles
just disappear ♪
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♪ When the wind is strong
and the air is clear ♪
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- [Narrator] On Fitz
Roy, tents are useless.
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The wind would snatch
them away like rags.
355
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The only security is in
a cave dug into the ice.
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Inside, it's wet,
cramped, dark, and cold
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but it's quiet out of the wind
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and at night it's a lot cozier
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than anything you
could find outside.
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In fact, camp one is
positively luxurious.
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A rock outcropping with
a view where you can sit
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and dry your ice-soaked
clothes in the sun.
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A visitor, an Andean condor,
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soaring on its 10
foot wingspread.
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This huge bird is
really a vulture
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and you wonder if you're being
filed for future reference.
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In 1952, a Frenchman, Lionel
Terray, led the expedition
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that climbed Fitz Roy
for the first time.
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He was one of the most
famous climbers of his day
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and he called Fitz Roy
his greatest achievement.
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But the time is now and
beyond these snow fields,
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there will be the
first real climbing.
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The mountain's in a
good mood, dazzling sun,
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calm air all day.
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If this weather holds,
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they could be on the
summit within days.
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The first vertical pitch.
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Yvon is in the lead.
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The rope around his waist is
belayed by the man below him
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who will hold him
in case of a slip.
381
00:28:26,204 --> 00:28:27,748
This is aid climbing,
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where there are no
hand or footholds
383
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and you ascend on aid slings,
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foot straps that are a
kind of movable ladder.
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00:28:38,884 --> 00:28:41,887
Climbing is the kind of
mathematics of danger.
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00:28:41,887 --> 00:28:45,015
Each problem is an
equation of rock and muscle
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00:28:45,015 --> 00:28:48,852
and a wrong answer
could mean a fall.
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Yvon searches without
strain for solutions
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while the man belaying him
waits, watching every move.
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00:28:55,233 --> 00:28:57,819
(hammering)
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00:28:59,154 --> 00:29:00,405
The lead climber's life depends
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00:29:00,405 --> 00:29:03,951
on the pitons he
hammers in the cracks.
393
00:29:06,787 --> 00:29:08,914
The rope that will
catch him if he falls
394
00:29:08,914 --> 00:29:13,418
is threaded through carabiners
hung around the pitons.
395
00:29:15,003 --> 00:29:17,923
(upbeat music)
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00:29:41,196 --> 00:29:43,532
Alpine type climbing is
a whole mountain full
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of different problems.
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Rock walls are one,
snow is another.
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No pitons here.
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00:29:49,871 --> 00:29:52,416
You drive the shaft of
your ice ax into the snow
401
00:29:52,416 --> 00:29:56,461
and use it for balance
while you make kick steps.
402
00:30:08,056 --> 00:30:11,435
For traction, you wear spikes
on your boots called crampons.
403
00:30:11,435 --> 00:30:16,148
If the snow is rotten, it can
give way under your weight.
404
00:30:19,901 --> 00:30:21,903
After Yvon is fixed to rope,
405
00:30:21,903 --> 00:30:23,321
Dick Dorworth, the
junior climber,
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00:30:23,321 --> 00:30:25,907
uses a mechanical
ascender called a jumar
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00:30:25,907 --> 00:30:27,826
to climb the rock face.
408
00:30:30,912 --> 00:30:35,417
A gear allows the jumar to
move up the rope but not down.
409
00:30:57,522 --> 00:30:59,983
(calm music)
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00:31:24,049 --> 00:31:26,968
Late afternoon and another
camp has to be made.
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00:31:26,968 --> 00:31:27,969
Camp two.
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00:31:29,179 --> 00:31:31,556
They tunnel down into
a snow filled crevasse.
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00:31:31,556 --> 00:31:33,642
A natural hollow in the
wall of the crevasse
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makes a fine cave when the
loose snow is dug out of it.
415
00:31:37,479 --> 00:31:39,940
Only the snow in the
crevasse keeps settling
416
00:31:39,940 --> 00:31:42,109
and opening a crack
in their tunnel floor
417
00:31:42,109 --> 00:31:45,904
that has to be continually
packed with more snow.
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00:31:55,956 --> 00:31:57,332
Fitz Roy's mood is changing.
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00:31:57,332 --> 00:32:00,001
Storm clouds are moving in fast.
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00:32:01,419 --> 00:32:04,172
The winds are mounting, the
temperature is dropping,
421
00:32:04,172 --> 00:32:07,926
and by the next day
you're buried in snow.
422
00:32:27,195 --> 00:32:29,990
There will be no climbing
today or tomorrow
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or the next day or the next day.
424
00:32:43,170 --> 00:32:45,213
In here, four men sit
in the murky half light
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00:32:45,213 --> 00:32:46,381
and look at each other
426
00:32:46,381 --> 00:32:49,426
and the floor keeps opening up.
427
00:32:49,426 --> 00:32:51,636
Outside, the mountain's
wrapped in storm,
428
00:32:51,636 --> 00:32:53,638
the wind's at gale force,
429
00:32:53,638 --> 00:32:56,391
and the temperature's
way below freezing.
430
00:32:56,391 --> 00:32:58,059
Dick?
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00:32:58,059 --> 00:33:00,562
- [Dick] Each day became
the same, day after day.
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00:33:00,562 --> 00:33:02,147
You can read so long
433
00:33:02,147 --> 00:33:04,649
and you can talk
about things so long
434
00:33:04,649 --> 00:33:08,236
and you can think
by yourself so long.
435
00:33:08,236 --> 00:33:11,156
You learn your own
rhythm of doing things.
436
00:33:11,156 --> 00:33:13,575
(calm music)
437
00:33:24,085 --> 00:33:26,630
(wind blowing)
438
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,262
- [Narrator] After days of
being bottled up in the cave,
439
00:33:34,262 --> 00:33:36,348
any let up in the weather
is an excuse to get out
440
00:33:36,348 --> 00:33:38,266
and at least look around,
441
00:33:38,266 --> 00:33:41,686
to prove to yourself no
movement is possible.
442
00:33:41,686 --> 00:33:43,480
Against 100 mile an hour winds,
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00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,274
Doug and Chris try
to make it to a cull
444
00:33:46,274 --> 00:33:50,111
where they can see if
the storm is letting up.
445
00:33:51,488 --> 00:33:52,656
No good.
446
00:33:52,656 --> 00:33:55,075
Not far from camp,
they're beaten by wind,
447
00:33:55,075 --> 00:33:57,661
blind with snow,
frozen to the bone,
448
00:33:57,661 --> 00:34:01,373
and within a few minutes
they're back inside.
449
00:34:13,301 --> 00:34:15,720
(calm music)
450
00:34:21,518 --> 00:34:23,395
You lose track of the days.
451
00:34:23,395 --> 00:34:26,481
One said it was 15 days they
were nestled in the mountain,
452
00:34:26,481 --> 00:34:28,692
another said 18, another 20.
453
00:34:30,151 --> 00:34:31,820
It's always twilight inside
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00:34:31,820 --> 00:34:35,365
and the only time that
counts is meal time.
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00:34:36,825 --> 00:34:41,329
♪ I'm alone to think about all
the faces that I've known ♪
456
00:34:47,252 --> 00:34:50,088
♪ I wanna go home ♪
457
00:34:55,260 --> 00:34:57,512
- [Narrator] They drink soup
that gets thinner and thinner
458
00:34:57,512 --> 00:34:59,264
and they tell tales.
459
00:34:59,264 --> 00:35:02,767
The oldest escape of
men trapped together.
460
00:35:05,687 --> 00:35:08,607
Yvon tells about
California and being warm,
461
00:35:08,607 --> 00:35:11,443
the ocean, about
girls, and you listen
462
00:35:11,443 --> 00:35:13,611
between sleeping and waking.
463
00:35:13,611 --> 00:35:16,531
It seems sometimes that you're
dreaming of being trapped
464
00:35:16,531 --> 00:35:18,783
in a cave of ice in Patagonia
465
00:35:18,783 --> 00:35:21,620
and that all the
time you're home.
466
00:35:25,290 --> 00:35:30,211
♪ To think about California
in my (mumbles) ♪
467
00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:37,218
♪ I wanna go home ♪
468
00:35:37,218 --> 00:35:41,222
♪ I wanna go home ♪
469
00:35:41,222 --> 00:35:44,309
♪ I wanna go home ♪
470
00:35:58,573 --> 00:36:03,286
♪ I wanna go home ♪
471
00:36:03,286 --> 00:36:06,206
♪ Wanna go home ♪
472
00:36:10,919 --> 00:36:13,505
(wind blowing)
473
00:36:25,850 --> 00:36:27,268
- [Narrator] When the
food's finally gone,
474
00:36:27,268 --> 00:36:29,437
they retreat from camp two.
475
00:36:38,655 --> 00:36:41,658
If it had been any storm
but a Patagonian storm,
476
00:36:41,658 --> 00:36:45,662
Yvon might have suggested
going on with the climb.
477
00:36:45,662 --> 00:36:48,873
- [Yvon] Whether we climbers
want to admit it or not,
478
00:36:48,873 --> 00:36:52,293
90% of the times that
we retreat from storms
479
00:36:52,293 --> 00:36:55,505
we could have gone on and
just climbed right on through.
480
00:36:55,505 --> 00:36:58,466
Most storms in the mountains
are merely uncomfortable,
481
00:36:58,466 --> 00:36:59,634
they won't kill you,
482
00:36:59,634 --> 00:37:02,429
but on Fitz Roy these
storms are a different story
483
00:37:02,429 --> 00:37:05,640
and you knew you had
to get out of there.
484
00:37:07,892 --> 00:37:09,853
- [Narrator] After weeks
of being caged in ice,
485
00:37:09,853 --> 00:37:13,314
even going down
seems like progress.
486
00:37:13,314 --> 00:37:14,816
In the face of the storm,
487
00:37:14,816 --> 00:37:18,486
they rappel down the walls
they climbed up foot by foot,
488
00:37:18,486 --> 00:37:21,406
all the way back
down to base camp.
489
00:37:51,311 --> 00:37:53,605
Back in base camp, the
foul weather keeps up.
490
00:37:53,605 --> 00:37:56,774
Chill rain, snow, high winds.
491
00:37:56,774 --> 00:37:58,943
For nearly a month, there's
nothing to do but scavenge
492
00:37:58,943 --> 00:38:01,863
and try to keep
warm and kill time.
493
00:38:03,364 --> 00:38:05,533
(calm music)
494
00:38:08,953 --> 00:38:11,372
Yvon ekes out their supplies
by learning to bake bread
495
00:38:11,372 --> 00:38:13,333
in the oven
thoughtfully left behind
496
00:38:13,333 --> 00:38:16,920
by the French expedition
so many years before.
497
00:38:32,810 --> 00:38:35,480
And then suddenly one evening
the clouds have shattered,
498
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,399
the sky is red, and as
every climber knows,
499
00:38:38,399 --> 00:38:42,821
red sky at evening means
fine weather in the morning.
500
00:38:54,582 --> 00:38:56,918
(upbeat music)
501
00:39:02,590 --> 00:39:05,843
♪ Cold morning ♪
502
00:39:05,843 --> 00:39:10,098
♪ Such a windy
mountain morning ♪
503
00:39:10,098 --> 00:39:12,517
♪ They are ready today ♪
504
00:39:12,517 --> 00:39:17,522
♪ They were ready
a long time ago ♪
505
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:24,445
♪ Oh, a brave man with a
primal sense of danger ♪
506
00:39:27,448 --> 00:39:32,370
♪ Climbing for the
kingdom above the clouds ♪
507
00:39:36,791 --> 00:39:38,626
- [Narrator] Down here
at the end of the world
508
00:39:38,626 --> 00:39:41,546
when good weather comes,
it comes from the south,
509
00:39:41,546 --> 00:39:44,549
riding on winds
from the Antarctic.
510
00:39:44,549 --> 00:39:49,137
Up on Fitz Roy, day comes
wrapped in clear inhuman cold,
511
00:39:49,137 --> 00:39:50,972
cold that split stone.
512
00:39:51,973 --> 00:39:54,726
The glacier moves an inch.
513
00:39:54,726 --> 00:39:56,394
The wind screams.
514
00:39:57,645 --> 00:39:58,813
Nothing lives.
515
00:40:01,566 --> 00:40:04,736
All the way back up to
where camp two used to be,
516
00:40:04,736 --> 00:40:09,574
doing it all again against
an old enemy, the wild wind.
517
00:40:52,784 --> 00:40:54,952
- [Man] It took us over
an hour to find camp two.
518
00:40:54,952 --> 00:40:57,580
It was buried under at
least 20 feet of new snow.
519
00:40:57,580 --> 00:41:02,543
We had neglected to mark the
entrance to our ice cave.
520
00:41:02,543 --> 00:41:04,587
From here, we can
see tomorrow's climb.
521
00:41:04,587 --> 00:41:06,964
We can plot an imaginary
line up 2,000 feet
522
00:41:06,964 --> 00:41:09,133
of frozen granite.
523
00:41:09,133 --> 00:41:10,635
If the weather holds,
524
00:41:10,635 --> 00:41:15,473
we'll see if that line can
really take us to the summit.
525
00:41:31,823 --> 00:41:33,574
- [Narrator] 2:30 a.m.
526
00:41:33,574 --> 00:41:36,244
Yvon leads the first pitch.
527
00:41:36,244 --> 00:41:37,954
- [Yvon] Mountains are
very silent and ominous
528
00:41:37,954 --> 00:41:39,664
this early in the morning.
529
00:41:39,664 --> 00:41:40,915
You have a lot of fear
530
00:41:40,915 --> 00:41:43,584
because fear of the
dark for one thing
531
00:41:43,584 --> 00:41:46,671
and fear of sticking
your neck out.
532
00:41:46,671 --> 00:41:47,922
Anyway, early in the morning,
533
00:41:47,922 --> 00:41:51,843
there's just no brave
men early in the morning.
534
00:41:53,010 --> 00:41:54,846
- [Narrator] The
pre-dawn cold is intense
535
00:41:54,846 --> 00:41:57,181
but fingerless
gloves are necessary.
536
00:41:57,181 --> 00:42:01,102
Bare fingertips can find a
hole where gloves would slip.
537
00:42:01,102 --> 00:42:03,604
You try to rub some
life into frozen fingers
538
00:42:03,604 --> 00:42:06,024
while you plan the next move.
539
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,615
(calm music)
540
00:42:22,582 --> 00:42:23,875
6:00 a.m.
541
00:42:23,875 --> 00:42:27,003
Yvon the careful problem
solver has exchanged lead
542
00:42:27,003 --> 00:42:30,047
with Doug the risk
taker, the charger.
543
00:42:57,074 --> 00:42:58,576
Their scouting led
them to believe
544
00:42:58,576 --> 00:43:01,746
that by this time the climbing
should be getting easier.
545
00:43:01,746 --> 00:43:02,997
It's not.
546
00:43:02,997 --> 00:43:05,917
Above each crest,
they find new walls.
547
00:43:05,917 --> 00:43:09,170
But the granite is good,
rough surfaced, and cracked
548
00:43:09,170 --> 00:43:12,215
and they move fast
for a rope of four.
549
00:43:12,215 --> 00:43:14,175
Doug and Yvon are
the climbing team.
550
00:43:14,175 --> 00:43:17,804
Chris Jones and Dick Dorworth
are the hauling team.
551
00:43:17,804 --> 00:43:19,096
Between the four of them,
552
00:43:19,096 --> 00:43:21,849
even when the hand holes
turned to finger holes
553
00:43:21,849 --> 00:43:24,685
and the foot holes become
almost non-existent,
554
00:43:24,685 --> 00:43:27,814
one way or another
they keep going up.
555
00:43:54,674 --> 00:43:55,883
10:00 a.m.
556
00:43:55,883 --> 00:43:57,718
Far back, Dick
Dorworth struggles
557
00:43:57,718 --> 00:44:00,888
with the mountain on his own.
558
00:44:00,888 --> 00:44:03,266
- [Dick] Most of the
climb, I was the last man.
559
00:44:03,266 --> 00:44:04,767
I was always hustling
to get up to them
560
00:44:04,767 --> 00:44:07,144
so they'd have
more ropes to use.
561
00:44:07,144 --> 00:44:10,231
Usually by the time I would
get to the top of a rope,
562
00:44:10,231 --> 00:44:11,983
the rest the guys
would have gone on
563
00:44:11,983 --> 00:44:13,818
and left another rope for me.
564
00:44:13,818 --> 00:44:15,653
So very often I was just alone.
565
00:44:15,653 --> 00:44:17,029
I'd get to the top of a pitch
566
00:44:17,029 --> 00:44:20,283
and I'd have to coil the
rope I just jumared up
567
00:44:20,283 --> 00:44:23,870
and get on the next
rope and go up that.
568
00:44:24,829 --> 00:44:27,957
A lot of times, I would
get behind everyone else
569
00:44:27,957 --> 00:44:32,169
and I would find myself alone
on the side of Fitz Roy.
570
00:44:32,169 --> 00:44:34,839
Sometimes it
started to get to me
571
00:44:34,839 --> 00:44:36,924
but I never dwelled on it.
572
00:44:36,924 --> 00:44:40,928
I just got on my jumars
and jumared up the rope,
573
00:44:40,928 --> 00:44:44,682
got on the next rope,
and jumared up that.
574
00:44:58,946 --> 00:45:00,197
- [Narrator] 2:00 p.m.
575
00:45:00,197 --> 00:45:02,950
The way is blocked by
a series of towers.
576
00:45:02,950 --> 00:45:06,454
The only way up the first
tower is a difficult crack.
577
00:45:06,454 --> 00:45:10,374
Doug's willing to let
Yvon have first go at it.
578
00:45:21,802 --> 00:45:23,179
Yvon the graceful,
579
00:45:23,179 --> 00:45:25,348
the climber who never
seemed to show strain
580
00:45:25,348 --> 00:45:27,808
even at the most
difficult points.
581
00:45:27,808 --> 00:45:32,021
In the end, fingers numb,
boots frozen hard as iron,
582
00:45:32,021 --> 00:45:35,983
all his expertise depends
on the strength of his arms
583
00:45:35,983 --> 00:45:37,902
and his legs and his will.
584
00:46:14,939 --> 00:46:16,232
3:00 p.m.
585
00:46:16,232 --> 00:46:18,401
There's an unknown number
of pitches left to do
586
00:46:18,401 --> 00:46:21,195
and not much daylight
left to do them in.
587
00:46:21,195 --> 00:46:22,363
On this side of the mountain,
588
00:46:22,363 --> 00:46:25,950
oncoming weather can't
be seen before it hits
589
00:46:25,950 --> 00:46:28,452
and if it hits, it'll hit hard.
590
00:46:32,039 --> 00:46:34,125
Doug struggles up
snow plastered rock
591
00:46:34,125 --> 00:46:35,960
while Yvon belays him.
592
00:46:40,131 --> 00:46:41,841
This close to the summit,
593
00:46:41,841 --> 00:46:44,135
the wind cuts through
the cracks and chimneys,
594
00:46:44,135 --> 00:46:46,470
knife-edged and bitter cold.
595
00:47:06,282 --> 00:47:09,493
A chimney is a crack
wide enough to get into.
596
00:47:09,493 --> 00:47:12,997
This one's fairly easy
climbing for a while.
597
00:47:12,997 --> 00:47:15,583
Then toward the top,
it narrows sharply
598
00:47:15,583 --> 00:47:18,961
and it's Doug's turn
to feel the squeeze.
599
00:47:23,591 --> 00:47:26,177
(upbeat music)
600
00:47:39,899 --> 00:47:41,525
When a crack's wide
enough for your hand
601
00:47:41,525 --> 00:47:44,528
but offers no lip to
take hold of, you jam,
602
00:47:44,528 --> 00:47:49,033
force your hand in, make a
fist, and pull yourself up.
603
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:29,073
5:00 p.m.
604
00:48:30,282 --> 00:48:33,035
A traversing pitch takes
Yvon around the corner
605
00:48:33,035 --> 00:48:34,578
of the last tower.
606
00:48:34,578 --> 00:48:36,413
Beyond him, he can
see the snow field
607
00:48:36,413 --> 00:48:38,207
that leads to the summit.
608
00:48:38,207 --> 00:48:41,252
That snow field has to be
reached before the light fails.
609
00:48:41,252 --> 00:48:43,254
To be caught up here
at night in the storm
610
00:48:43,254 --> 00:48:47,091
that could come at any
hour would be death.
611
00:49:07,695 --> 00:49:09,196
6:00 p.m.
612
00:49:09,196 --> 00:49:11,991
There are still an unknown
number of pitches left to do
613
00:49:11,991 --> 00:49:14,577
as Doug takes over
the lead again.
614
00:49:55,326 --> 00:49:56,493
That's it.
615
00:49:56,493 --> 00:49:59,121
(upbeat music)
616
00:50:03,250 --> 00:50:06,337
Off to the west, they can
see another storm gathering.
617
00:50:06,337 --> 00:50:07,796
That means they've
got more hours
618
00:50:07,796 --> 00:50:12,259
of climbing yet to do tonight
to get down to camp two.
619
00:50:12,259 --> 00:50:13,761
They ought to turn
back right now
620
00:50:13,761 --> 00:50:16,513
and get as far as they can
from this exposed place
621
00:50:16,513 --> 00:50:19,183
but they won't turn back till
they've stood on the summit,
622
00:50:19,183 --> 00:50:23,145
just for a moment, just
to taste their victory.
623
00:50:44,291 --> 00:50:47,795
♪ We have lived
with the mountains ♪
624
00:50:47,795 --> 00:50:51,715
♪ We have shared many days ♪
625
00:50:51,715 --> 00:50:55,803
♪ Now we're free, it's
such a long road ♪
626
00:50:55,803 --> 00:50:59,682
♪ To the kingdom in the clouds ♪
627
00:51:06,730 --> 00:51:10,150
♪ Run, run, run,
run, run, run, run ♪
628
00:51:10,150 --> 00:51:14,321
♪ Running, don't know why ♪
629
00:51:14,321 --> 00:51:17,741
♪ Looking for a place to go ♪
630
00:51:17,741 --> 00:51:22,162
♪ Always reaching high ♪
631
00:51:22,162 --> 00:51:27,084
♪ I remember thinking last
time that I was home to stay ♪
632
00:51:30,170 --> 00:51:33,173
♪ Now I have to leave
that home life ♪
633
00:51:33,173 --> 00:51:38,178
♪ But I'll be back someday ♪
634
00:51:39,596 --> 00:51:43,183
♪ Cause my love is strong
as the wind that blows ♪
635
00:51:43,183 --> 00:51:46,437
♪ Down from the northern snow ♪
636
00:51:46,437 --> 00:51:50,691
♪ It's time to get on the road
with some friends of mine ♪
637
00:51:50,691 --> 00:51:55,696
♪ Freedom, freedom is
another life that we share ♪
638
00:51:57,197 --> 00:52:00,868
♪ South to the border,
stopping where we may ♪
639
00:52:00,868 --> 00:52:05,289
♪ No one cares how
we spend our days ♪
640
00:52:14,757 --> 00:52:18,552
♪ Watching the road
through dusty windows ♪
641
00:52:18,552 --> 00:52:22,639
♪ Riding the waves
in (mumbles) ♪
642
00:52:22,639 --> 00:52:26,477
♪ My and my van (mumbles) ♪
643
00:52:26,477 --> 00:52:30,314
♪ Racing away down
icy mountains ♪
644
00:52:30,314 --> 00:52:35,152
♪ Watching the road
through dusty windows ♪
50563
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