The climbers got on the southeast ridge.

These are some climbers waiting to go to the summit.

You can see on this climber, we have two oxygen tanks in the backpack

Oh, Chris, they want only the best climbers You can ask, can't you? It's important to me.

These are climbers moving up the Lhotse face, that mountain toward Camp Three.

This is not good weather to climb in, so the climbers are just waiting, hoping that the wind's going to die down.

And the climbers stood around on the high rocks and spoke of the climbers who were lost up near the summit, turning to the mountain, actually, to talk to them directly.

All the climbers here are climbing unroped, and the reason is because the drop off is so sheer on either side that if you were roped to somebody, you'd wind up just pulling them off with you.

So the climbers passed him by, and Beck lay there for a day, a night and another day, in the snow.

OK. Those climbers were up near the summit, along that summit ridge that you see up there, and I was down here in Camp Three.

So the climbers passed him by, and Beck lay there for a day, a night and another day, in the snow.

Those climbers were up near the summit, along that summit ridge that you see up there, and I was down here in Camp Three.

And the climbers up on the ridge were that much higher, 2,000 feet higher, and completely exposed to the elements.

You can see on this climber, we have two oxygen tanks in the backpack little titanium tanks, very lightweight and we're not carrying much else.

And the climbers stood around on the high rocks and spoke of the climbers who were lost up near the summit, turning to the mountain, actually, to talk to them directly.

All the climbers here are climbing unroped, and the reason is because the drop off is so sheer on either side that if you were roped to somebody, you'd wind up just pulling them off with you.