K2 TRACY Well, which one? LISA I want the blonde. TRACY Alright. LISA Tell me you want the blonde. TRACY I want the dark one. LISA You want the dark one. You really mean it? TRACY Yeah, I want the dark one. LISA Why don't we just swap? Why don't we do a swap? Let's do that. Let's do it. TRACY OK. LISA OK. TRACY OK, I'll take the kitchen. LISA You take the kitchen. I'll take the bedroom. TRACY What is it again? LISA Tracey. TAYLOR Oh, baby! God Damn! Come on Harold. HAROLD Killer. TAYLOR Come on, come on Harold. HAROLD Alright. Alright. Alright. LISA What do you guys do anyway? TAYLOR I'm an explorer. TRACY Oh no. I've seen you around. You are an accountant, or a lawyer or something. TAYLOR An accountant? Please... feel this... feel this. Since when does an accountant ever feel like that? TRACY Oh now anybody can do weights. TAYLOR Hey, go and sit next to Lisa's friend. TRACY Tracey. TAYLOR Tracey, come and sit next to Harold. He's kinda shy, you know. That's right... that's right. Come around then. TRACY Hi. HAROLD Hi. TAYLOR Hello sailor. TRACY Thank you guys. LISA OK. Come on. TAYLOR Oh, come on. One drink. No, we'll go in for one drink. Come on Harold, please... please. LISA Hey you guys, comin' in or what? TAYLOR You girls go on in, we'll be right there. LISA It's number 58. TRACY Hurry up before we change our minds. TAYLOR Let's go in for one drink Harold. HAROLD I can't go in there. TAYLOR Come on Harold, just one drink. HAROLD I can't. TAYLOR why? HAROLD Because if I start screwing around on my wife, I'm dead meat. TAYLOR Oh man, these girls are wet, wild and willin'. HAROLD That's why I can't go in. TAYLOR Come on Harold, haven't I always looked after you on all our adventures together? HAROLD This is one kind of adventure I don't do any more. You know that. LISA What the hell's going on down there? TRACY Yeah. TAYLOR We're comin'. HAROLD You're coming. I'm going home. I'll call you tomorrow. Run through the inventory, okay? TAYLOR Harold... Harold... Harold... Fuck the rules! BLACK MAN Cat Burglar! HAROLD Pussy thief! TONY Hey Spiderman. what's the big fucking idea? TAYLOR I'm just visiting pop. TONY Now you want to jump down like a good little boy or do you want me to blow your fuckin' head off? TAYLOR Wwwwww... Tracey! Lisa! LISA Taylor, what the hell are you doing up there? Where's your magic wand now Taylor? TRACY Yeah. TONY Is this guy a friend of yours? TRACY It's okay. Tony. we know him. TAYLOR Yeah I'm okay Tony. I'm okay. TONY Crazy fuckin' girls. BLACK MAN He always do this kinda thing? HAROLD Every Friday night! TAYLOR Hello girls, nice neighborhood, hey. CINDY Hello, anyone home? HAROLD Huh? CINDY Baby's wet, Daddy. HAROLD What Cin? CINDY I don't understand how you can sit there with your son sopping wet and not even notice! HAROLD I'm sorry. CINDY Don't apologize to me. HAROLD I'm sorry Eric. I just had a flash about this paper Cin and I gotta get this down. CINDY Eric and I have been waiting about a year for you to have a flash about the joys of parenthood. HAROLD Give me a break, honey. CINDY We get one hour a day of your valuable time, professor... if we're lucky. I'm only asking you for one hour a day to think about us. HAROLD Cin? CINDY Yes? HAROLD I forgot to tell you that the Alaska trip has been pushed forward a week. CINDY Harold, I want to make you a deal. You can be a foul-up as a father for ten more days. And when you get hack from this trip, I want you to promise to concentrate on us, the three of us, for six months, okay? HAROLD I promise. CINDY You got your fingers crossed? Fine. Now hold Eric for five more minutes 'til I'm ready for work. HAROLD Hello. I'm gonna take you to a mountain with me. Yeah, a mountain. Give me a kiss. TAYLOR Listen Carl, all you have to do is go hack in there and testify what you saw those guys do. Just tell the Court the truth. Then I'll drop the "accessory to second degree murder" down to "aggravated assault" plus we forget all the other charges. It's a hell of a deal, Carl. It's a hell of a deal. DEXTER A hell of a deal. CARL Man, you is one fuckin' attorney! TAYLOR Aggravated assault, it's one year tops. County time, you'll be out in eight months laughing! CARL Man I rat... and in 8 months I'm dead. Popped the second I hit the streets. TAYLOR I'll see to it personally that you get protective custody. CARL Yeah. for the rest of my life! Man, that's bullshit. Man, I ain't ratting. TAYLOR Would you like another cup of coffee? How about you, Dex? I'll buy if you do the honors. DEXTER Cream and sugar, right? CARL What is this shit? What? Are you gonna leave me alone with this guy? This fuckin' Assistant D.A.? TAYLOR We're gonna go hack in there me and you the youngest, the most frightened the one most likely to crack... CARL Oh no, you ain't crackin' me, man. TAYLOR and your brothers'll be lookin' at you and wondering "what the hell are they talkin' about in there" And then I'm gonna approach the bench concerning some new evidence I've just received. And the whole time I'm doin' it, I'm gonna look at your brothers and then I'm gonna be lookin' at you. CARL You is one sick fuck. TAYLOR Yeah well now you're catchin' on. HAROLD Well in a strange way it was girls... I used to hide from them in the library in the fifth grade. That's where I came across my first physics textbook explaining Einstein's Unified Field Theory. PETER That's got it, Professor. HAROLD Perfect, okay. Anyway, High School... College... I dove deep- er into physics and discovered that Einstein had failed in the face of Quantum Mechanics. I saw God die almost before he was born. You see Quantum Physics had smashed to pieces the cornerstone of physical science. PETER Cause and effect. HAROLD Precisely. There was no answer. PETER Yeah. HAROLD Listen, why don't you clean it up, and I'll go get us some sandwiches. PETER Ah professor. If there is no answer, then why look for one? HAROLD Hm, that's why I climb mountains, Peter. TAYLOR There you go. Oh Harold, you almost had it. One more try, come on. Harold. come on, here you go, come on. Come on Harold. You've gotta do better than that. Let's go. There you go. Beautiful, beautiful. Nice, nice, nice. That's nice Harold. Oh I'm really here. HAROLD what a hairy pendulum, man. TAYLOR Good job. HAROLD Nice ballet. TAYLOR Thank you. I'll give you a good ballet. Check that out. I'm gonna free the whole pitch. HAROLD Really? D'you know what I love about you, Taylor? You're too dumb to let reality stand in the way of success. TAYLOR Jesus, what's that? HAROLD Right there. See the overhang in the roof. TAYLOR Oh yeah. HAROLD What're they doing? TAYLOR I dunno. Let's go pay them a visit and find out. HAROLD Okay. You first. TAYLOR Here we go. MAN Hey, nice climbing. Right on. DALLAS Well I guess they'll let anybody on this mountain. TAYLOR Hi Dallas, how's it hanging? DALLAS Everybody, this is Taylor Brooks. The Spat twins. TAYLOR Hi. DALLAS Jacki Metcalf. JACKI Hi. TAYLOR You climbed Anapurna last summer, didn't you? JACKI Yeah. TAYLOR Congratulations. JACKI Thanks. DALLAS Takane Shimuzu. TAKANE Hi. TAYLOR How do you do? DALLAS Phillip Clayborne. TAYLOR The Phillip Clayborne? CLAYBORNE Hello Taylor, nice moves. TAYLOR Nice to meet you. Thank you. Okay Harold. You guys moving in? JACKI Well this is just a test run. TAYLOR Test run for what? DALLAS Well we... CLAYBORNE We'd rather not say until we've got the permissions. TAYLOR The permissions. Himalayas huh? CLAYBORNE I never talk about a deal until it's signed. JACKI You two are moving pretty fast. TAYLOR Yeah, we've got a little test run goin' ourselves here. We're comin' back in a month to shoot for the record on McKinley. DALLAS The summit speed record? CLAYBORNE You think you can beat 36 hours? Who else are you taking? DALLAS Superman? TAYLOR No, it's just Harold and me. And a couple of our favorite hookers. DALLAS Harold who? TAYLOR Harold Jamison. DALLAS Never heard of him. TAYLOR Well, here he comes. We'll ask him if he's ever heard of you. CLAYBORNE How high are you going tonight? TAYLOR Just up to the snowline. Jesus Christ, what time do you chopper in the sushi? CLAYBORNE Hello... hello... yeah. Eh, how are you doin'? Everything's fine. TAYLOR I got you. I got you. I got you. DALLAS Harold huh! TAYLOR What d'you think? Underneath those rocks? HAROLD Yeah... looks good. TAYLOR You're not going to camp here, are you? DALLAS What does it look like? CLAYBORNE We need to test these tents on some steep ice. HAROLD Yeah, yeah, of course except you're right in a hole here CLAYBORNE It's almost June. I'm sure everything that's gonna come down has already done it. DALLAS You see those choppy formations? That means that there was a slide just a week or two ago. TAYLOR Yeah, we know what they mean, Dallas. that we heard that they had some pretty heavy snow fall here this year. DALLAS Look, why don't you guys go back to the ridge and camp there and we'll see you in the morning? HAROLD Fine. See you in the morning. TAYLOR Wanna make a little side bet on some serious white dumping on those fuckers tonight? HAROLD Eh pass. Sounds karmically uncool. So, who's Clayborne? TAYLOR You never heard of Phillip Clayborne? HAROLD No. He seems like a nice guy. TAYLOR Nice? How many billionaires do you know, Harold? HAROLD Really? TAYLOR Really. HAROLD Oh! What about, eh, Dallas. What's his name. What's his problem? TAYLOR Dallas Woolf? We went to law school together. He was good in the classroom. I was better in the courtroom. And there was no contest in the bedroom. HAROLD Hey Taylor. you awake? TAYLOR No. HAROLD I gotta talk to you. TAYLOR What? HAROLD I've got a little problem about this McKinley trip. TAYLOR What? HAROLD Yeah. TAYLOR Let me guess... five foot six straight black hair. HAROLD Yep. Huh you know I've been workin' too hard. I'm never home. I promised her. She made me promise her that... TAYLOR You promised me. It's only ten days for chrissake. HAROLD I know... I know. I... I really don't think I can make another trip this year. TAYLOR Let me talk to her. HAROLD She doesn't like you. How many times have I got to tell you that? TAYLOR Up... oh. Harold, whatever happened to the Way of the Warrior? HAROLD They Way of the Warrior doesn't stand a chance against the Way of the Wife! TAYLOR Whatever. If you ask me it costs too much. HAROLD What? TAYLOR Love. Ii s way overpriced. HAROLD Don't you ever get lonely, Taylor? TAYLOR Yeah I get lonely, so what? Everybody does. Except for sappy couples like you who live in a fucking Hallmark card. HAROLD What are you saying? My life is a Hallmark card? TAYLOR Hey, if the shoe fits baby. HAROLD Fuck you. TAYLOR Fuck you too. Now what? HAROLD I'll be right hack. TAYLOR Don't freeze your weenie off. TODD Hey what the hell are you doing? HAROLD Hi um. I was lust tying up your tent to the big one. MIKE Don't bother, Dad. We'll be fine. HAROLD Look guys I'm just a little worried you know we're... TODD We' re tied in. Just go to sleep. HAROLD Right. TODD Asshole! HAROLD Taylor avalanche. TAYLOR D'you see them? HAROLD That's it there! TAYLOR Yeah. Grab a shovel. Hey come on. Did you tie on both tents? HAROLD No, just the big one. They wouldn't let me. TAYLOR Fuckless. I wonder what happened to them. Here. HAROLD Hang on. TAYLOR Yes. We got it! JACKI Dallas, listen! DALLAS Down here! We're down here! TAYLOR Take it easy. HAROLD Is everybody all right? JACKI Oh God, there's people. DALLAS Oh God! TAYLOR Dallas are you okay? HAROLD Just take your time. Give me your hand, anybody. Take my... that's it. Phillip... yeah! VICAR In sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ. we commend to Almighty God our brothers and we commit their bodies to the ground. Earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust. The Lord bless them and keep them the Lord make his face to shine upon them and be gracious to them the Lord lift up his countenance upon them... and give them peace. Amen. ALL Amen. CLAYBORNE I've gotta go. Excuse me. TAYLOR I guess this leaves a little hole in your team. CLAYBORNE You're volunteering to fill it, huh? TAYLOR If you're goin' where I think you're goin', yeah. CLAYBORNE Could be just about any where. TAYLOR Oh come on, Clayborne. It's one of the big ones, isn't it? You wouldn't be in it otherwise. Is it Everest? CLAYBORNE This is not the time or the place for this. TAYLOR Look, you need two good climbers. CLAYBORNE D'you have any idea how many people have called me on this? TAYLOR Well, who's called you that's a better climber than me? Huh? I've paid my dues in the Death Zone. CLAYBORNE What about your friend? TAYLOR MY friend saved your life. CLAYBORNE That's not a reason to take him. TAYLOR Look, I've been climbing with Harold for ten years. I'd have him on my rope ahead of anyone I know. CLAYBORNE How many times has he been over 8,000 meters? TAYLOR He's never been over 8,000 meters. Have you? CLAYBORNE How I function at 28,000 is my problem. TAYLOR It's K2! Isn't it? My God, we're going to K2! CLAYBORNE Listen, I don't like having my decisions made for me. TAYLOR This is a decision that's makin' itself. Harold. CLAYBORNE Not here. I'll put it to the other members of the team. TAYLOR It's your team. You can give me an answer right now. CLAYBORNE The only answer you'll get right here is a "no"! TAYLOR Listen, I've wanted to climb K2 all my life! CLAYBORNE You're the most persistent son-of-a-bitch I've ever met! TAYLOR Thank you. CLAYBORNE But I'm not sure I want you on my team. GIRL Hi Taylor. TAYLOR You too. 33, 34, 35. PAM Oh sorry... um... I know it's lunch time. It's just those papers you wanted. TAYLOR Just put them on the desk. PAM I wondered what that thing was. TAYLOR Tones up the tits a treat. You wanna give it a try? PAM No thanks. TAYLOR Miss Perkins. PAM Yes. TAYLOR Dinner tonight? PAM What about it? TAYLOR Have it with me. PAM No. TAYLOR Oh come on. Why not? PAM Look Mr. Brooks, I already have a date. TAYLOR Break it... overtime. PAM Thanks. But I never shit where I eat. TAYLOR I wasn't aware, Miss Perkins, that you shat at all. SECRETARY Mr. Brooks. TAYLOR Yes. SECRETARY I have a Mr. Phillip Clayborne on Line One. TAYLOR Yes. Hello. Yes... yes... yes! Excuse me, do you know where I can find Harold Jamison? ASSISTANT Ya, 101 down the stairs. TAYLOR Thank you very much. Do you know where 101 is? MAN First on the left. TAYLOR Thank you very much. Turn on the lights Professor. Your life's about to change! HAROLD Jesus, you scared the shit outta me. What're you doing here? TAYLOR I just got off the phone with Phillip Clayborne. HAROLD Yeah, so? TAYLOR So you and I are going to knock off the toughest mountain in the world! He wants us on his expedition to K2! HAROLD You're kidding. TAYLOR He wants to see us tonight. We leave in two weeks. HAROLD Ah wait. I can't. Eh Peter take over here will you? What are ya talking? Come here. I can't leave in two weeks. TAYLOR You can do anything you want Harold. HAROLD I have a grant review on the twenty- third. I have to be here for that. TAYLOR Get it pushed forward. HAROLD It doesn't work like that. TAYLOR Make it work like that. HAROLD You don't know what you're talking about. TAYLOR This is our shot Harold. We've been talking about this for ten years. Here it is. HAROLD You're gonna have to go without me. TAYLOR I sold him on us. Me and you. Come on Harold, don't do this to me. It's K2! HAROLD You're not the only person in the universe you know. I've got Eric and Cindy to think about too. I just can't go. TAYLOR Can't? That's bullshit. HAROLD My wife and my kid and my job are not bullshit. And I don't intend to blow any of them. Okay? TAYLOR Get outta the way! You little menaces! BOY You're a menace! TAYLOR D'you want me to go in with you? HAROLD No I can handle it. TAYLOR You sure? HAROLD Yeah, act outta here. TAYLOR Remember Harold. Chance of a life time! CINDY What is it Harold? HAROLD Oh, I can't sleep. CINDY Why not? HAROLD I dunno. CINDY Yes. you do. HAROLD Oh I'm just gonna get a glass of water. CINDY No, come back here first and tell me What's the matter. HAROLD No, just go hack to sleep. We'll talk tomorrow, okay? CINDY Tell me. HAROLD Okay, I made you a promise and... I want to break it. CINDY You promised six months. You haven't been back six days! HAROLD I know... I know... but this is different. Taylor and I have been asked to go to K2. CINDY So what? HAROLD Come on Cindy. it's... it's a chance of a lifetime. CINDY The chance of a lifetime to get yourself killed. HAROLD Oh don't be ridiculous. CINDY Oh yeah? It's all here in the goddam hooks, Harold..."Savage Mountain" "Killer Mountain" Half the people that go to K2 don't come back. HAROLD Cindy. CINDY you're going to blow everything. Your career, your family, just so guess who can use you as his stooge again. HAROLD I am not his stooge. Cindy when I stand on top of a mountain... and it's taken all my strength and all my courage to get there... Just for one second... one Second... I feel the truth of my life. I have to have that, okay? And not for Taylor for me. CINDY Me me me me me me me... HAROLD Cindy... Cindy... I am not going to die. I love you. I love Eric. And I m going to do this thing and when I come back I promise. CINDY We won't be here when you get back. HAROLD Oh I see. You or the mountain is that it? CINDY Yes. HAROLD Well I'm gonna have both. CINDY No, you're not. HAROLD Yes, I am. CINDY You can't. HAROLD Yes I can. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. CINDY Promise me you'll come hack Harold. HAROLD I promise. MAN Eh 17547 okay... sign there. MALIK He says no, problem. CLAYBORNE Ask him for his assurance that this deal is going to stick. MALIK That won't be necessary. DALLAS Every expedition that's ever come through here has had problems with the porters. MALIK There won't be any problems. CLAYBORNE Tell them there'd better not be. DALLAS Ok. we'll use the 8mm for the fixed rope up to Camp Four and then the 6mm on the higher stages. JACKI Do you think they're heavy enough? The Poles used 9mm all the way to the top. DALLAS Well they had twice as many climbers as we do. JACKI To me the six mill just doesn't feel like it's gonna take the weight. TAYLOR There's no weight to take if we do it without fixed ropes. DALLAS Don't be ridiculous TAYLOR Waiting to get blown off the mountain for sixty or seventy days laying ropes is what I call ridiculous. DALLAS We've got every angle figured, Taylor. I mean, we've been planning this trip for over a year now. TAYLOR The Poles probably planned it all their lives. That didn't stop three of them from getting killed. HAROLD And none of them made the summit. DALLAS Fast and loose is not the way to climb K2. CLAYBORNE Hey Taylor, listen to Dallas, will ya? He's the best expedition organizer in the States. TAYLOR Well if I'd known that I'd have had him come over and pack my bags for me. HAROLD Thank you. TAYLOR It must be that time of the month huh Dallas? HAROLD I'll sleep tonight. I'll tell you that. TAYLOR Acclimatizing all right? HAROLD Is it good news or bad news when you bleed from your ears? TAYLOR Good news. HAROLD Cheese. Looks like somebody's hurt. DALLAS These guys look like hell. STEINER Guten tag. Helmut Steiner. CLAYBORNE Phillip Clayborne. How d'you do? STEINER We are last from the, eh, Mustang Tower. The weather was very bad. We had to come down quickly. We had to leave everything behind. I've never known such bad storms. I am sorry. Do you have any food you could spare? CLAYBORNE Oh yes, of course. HAROLD That man is dead. STEINER Her brother too. But she doesn't believe it. They were climbing on Paryu. We tried to bury him, but eh she doesn't allow it. It was very bad. LAMBARDAR A Japanese team has arrived in Skardu and they are paying six dollars a day. CLAYBORNE A deal is a deal. You don't renegotiate it every time you feel like it. You people have a bad reputation for this. Most of the cash you people earn is from climbing parties. Maybe you should think about what happens if we stop coming. DALLAS Fuckin' asshole! LAMBARDAR I hope you do stop coming here. Six and a half dollars a day or no one goes. WIDOW Only my husband he... DALLAS What the hell're you doin'? TAYLOR We're talking. DALLAS You're taiking, my ass! TAYLOR She's still in shock. She needs somebody to talk to. DALLAS You know nothing's changed, huh? You want something you just take it, right? TAYLOR She was telling me about her husband. What is your problem anyway? DALLAS You know she's pregnant? TAYLOR So? DALLAS So pregnant widows... Is that your thing now? TAYLOR My thing is to climb this mountain. Your way, my way, I don't give a shit! DALLAS I think we got that part. TAYLOR Are you gonna pull the bull- whip outta your ass? Or do you want me to do it? CLAYBORNE Alright. Knock it off! What are you guys doing? HAROLD Taylor. Come here' n look at this! Wow! Isn't that beautiful? TAYLOR Of course it s beautiful. D'you think I'd take you to an ugly mountain? HAROLD We did it. TAKANE Yeah! MALIK Clayborne. Clayborne. Mr. Clayborne. They want to rest. CLAYBORNE For how long? MALIK For the rest of the day. CLAYBORNE What? Are you serious? What the hell's going on? MALIK They want to make camp here. TAYLOR That's bullshit. CLAYBORNE We've only been going two hours. MALIK They say it's too dangerous because the fresh snow hides the crevasses. DALLAS What will camping here prove? TAYLOR It'll prove they get an extra day's pay. CLAYBORNE We're going on to Base Camp tonight. Otherwise no one gets paid. MALIK They won't move Mr. Clayborne. CLAYBORNE We'll see about that! DALLAS Look here Malik, I hold you personally responsible for this. Do you understand? MALIK Well it's not my responsibility. it's not fair, it's between you and the porters. TAYLOR Here look at this! Hey! MALIK Hey! What are you doing? Stop! TAYLOR Here, here. You tell them if they don't want the money we agreed up, I'll burn it all. You tell them that! MALIK You must not do this. HAROLD He's right, Taylor. TAYLOR D'you think it's right they make a deal and pull this shit every day, Harold? MALIK You cannot negotiate with them by destroying what they do not have. TAYLOR Watch me! MALIK Listen, this money will feed one of the families for a month at least. Mr. Clayborne, stop him! This is against the law. CLAYBORNE Taylor, that's enough! Malik, listen to me. You tell them that every man who finishes the trip with us will get an extra 50 rupees per day for this part of the glacier. This section only. Is that clear? MALIK It's not the money Mr. Clayborne. IBRAHIM They will do it. MALIK They will do it. bastards. DALLAS Congratulations. I think I'll nominate you as Ambassador to Pakistan. HAROLD I'm really sorry about this morning. MALIK Come on. Harold. I don't think the porters were innocent you know. You know they made a fool of me. The bastards. HAROLD Oh I think Taylor overreacted quite a bit. MALIK I appreciate that. HAROLD Yeah. DALLAS Get the rope! TAYLOR Clean it. That's right. CLAYBORNE You all right? TAKANE Yes, thanks. CLAYBORNE Good work guys. DALLAS You okay? HAROLD Yeah, You? DALLAS Yeah. MALIK Thank you Harold. HAROLD Ah it's nothin'. Forget it. MALIK I will never forget it. TAYLOR So how's it feel to be the team hero? HAROLD It's better than being the team asshole I guess. TAYLOR What's that supposed to mean? HAROLD You know what it means. TAYLOR No, I don't. HAROLD This whole deal with the porters. You know you burned their money. I just don't understand it. TAYLOR I didn't make the world the way it is, Harold. I'm just trying to get through it... as fast and as clean as possible. HAROLD We all make the world the way it is. TAYLOR Yeah well, we know who made this. HAROLD Do up the tent. TAYLOR You do it! D'you do this every day? TAKANE Yes. Every day. DALLAS Hey! HAROLD Taylor! Taylor! What's going on? MALIK The men are leaving, they are going home. HAROLD Why? MALIK They are scared. HAROLD Well, tell them it's only four hours to Base Camp. MALIK I'm trying to do that. HAROLD Come man, we're almost there. Look! Look! DALLAS Ask them. Come on. God damn it. What? What? Answer me, you son-of-a-bitch. Answer me! God dmanit! God fucking damn it! JACKI Leave it here! Leave it! TAYLOR What the hell's going on? DALLAS We've just lost the porters. TAKANE What are we doing to do now? TAYLOR Fuck them! We don't need them. We'll take it up ourselves. DALLAS Seven tons of gear! When do you want to do this, before or after you get dressed? TAYLOR What's the matter with you? Don't you have a plan? I thought you had a plan for everything. DALLAS I'm talking about time, asshole! It's gonna take weeks to take this shit up the mountain. JACKI Dallas is right. We'll be cutting it short with the weather this late in the season. TAYLOR Exactly, that's why we take what we need and we leave all this other shit. Oh well then hey guys, why don't we just fucking quit, huh? Why don't we just give up? Come on, they're doin us a favor. We don't need all this stuff. Look, all we need is each other. Ourselves. It's a team, Clayborne, like you said... a team. MALIK These men will stay Mr. Clayborne. HAROLD I'm with Taylor. TAYLOR This is such a great book. Listen to this. you will survive if you fight quickly and perish if you do not. This is called the Dying Ground. HAROLD On' Dying Ground' or as it were sitting in a leaking boat. Or hanging in 3 burning house. TAYLOR Have you got your strategy down yet? HAROLD I dunno. What d'you mean? TAYLOR Just what I said. HAROLD Well, what's your strategy? TAYLOR Mine is mine. It's not gonna work for you. Nobody can climb a mountain for you Harold. HAROLD I know that. What are you saying, it's every man for himself from here on in? TAYLOR Well if it comes down to that, you've got to be able to deal with it, sure. HAROLD Oh... uh... okay. I get it. TAYLOR Do you? HAROLD Um hmm. TAYLOR Anything can happen up here Anything. Don't rely on anybody but yourself. That's all I'm trying to say. Clayborne's really sucking the O's eh? DALLAS Well make this Camp One. Okay by you guys? TAYLOR That's fine by us. HAROLD You know Clayborne really seems to be struggling. DALLAS I know he always takes a coupla days to acclimatize. He'll be okay. TAYLOR Yeah right. Drink some. Dehydration's a killer at 20,000 feet. HAROLD We're at 20,000 feet already? TAYLOR Welcome to the death zone. CLAYBORNE If we get to Base Camp by noon, we should be able to get the equipment up to Camp Two by tonight. DALLAS We could come back down here. CLAYBORNE No need for that. You go up to Camp Two. I'll meet you up there. JACKI We'll see you later. CLAYBORNE Good luck. DALLAS Okay, thanks. TAYLOR What's up? DALLAS Ready? TAYLOR Yup. DALLAS You want to lead today? TAYLOR Yeah, sounds good to me. DALLAS OK. JACKI Be ready to leave in a half hour. MALIK Okay. DALLAS Camp Two to Base. Do you read me. Over. JACKI Hey Dallas, Base Camp reading you. Over. DALLAS We're ready for you here. Is everything okay? Over. JACKI Everything's fine. We'll be starting out in about thirty minutes... Over. DALLAS Eh we're gonna push on. Lay rope to three. Over. JACKI Repeat. You're breaking up. Repeat. DALLAS I said we're gonna push on. Lay rope to three. We'll see you back here tonight. Over. JACKI Sounds good. Over. DALLAS Hey girls, we're gonna push on to three. HAROLD Right now? DALLAS What's the matter? HAROLD I feel like I just fuckin' died is what's the matter. TAKANE Me too. DALLAS All right. I'll tell you what. You guys stay here and rest. I'll go to three and lay ropes myself. TAYLOR I'm comin' with you. JACKI Be ready in about half an hour? CLAYBORNE Yeah. Half an hour's fine. JACKI Feel okay? CLAYBORNE I feel great. MALIK Eh, that should be an hour maybe. HAROLD What d'you think about when you climb? TAYLOR Sex. HAROLD Sex you've had or sex you're gonna have? TAYLOR Sex I didn't have. I think about the ones that got away. HAROLD Really? You mean there were some? TAYLOR Cindy. I never had Cindy. HAROLD What? TAYLOR I could have I think. HAROLD Hey... hey... hey. TAYLOR The first time I saw her I said to myself. HAROLD Taylor shut up! All right. that's enough! Jesus! TAYLOR You asked. HAROLD You're kiddin', right? JACKI Phillip... Phillip is sick. HAROLD What's wrong with him? JACKI I'm not sure. Edema maybe. We've gotta get him down now. HAROLD Okay, we'll be right there. TAYLOR What... what does she mean "we"? How's he feeling? CLAYBORNE I don't feel too good. I'm sorry. JACKI We can get you down to Base Camp tonight Phillip. CLAYBORNE I'll be all right 'til morning. JACKI We've got to get you down to a lower altitude as soon as possible. CLAYBORNE My legs are still moving. I'm all right. JACKI Your lips are blue. CLAYBORNE No. DALLAS All we need is five days, Phillip. The four of us can crack the summit for you. It'll always be your mountain. JACKI Listen, I want to reach the summit as much as all of you. But Phillip is goin' to die if we don't get him down tonight. MALIK I will go with you and Nazzir. Mountain will wait for me. HAROLD I'll go too. TAYLOR No, you won't, Harold. JACKI Dallas? TAYLOR I just don't see the point in all of us going back down to Base Camp. TAKANE I agree. DALLAS Okay. It's settled. The rest of us'll remain here until morning. If he gets worse we'll come straight down. JACKI Fine. Go wake up Nazzir. Bring him down. easy. I got ya. It's OK Phillip. We're almost down now. CLAYBORNE Phillip to Camp 4. This is Phillip. DALLAS Yeah Phillip. It's Dallas, go ahead. CLAYBORNE Camp 4. What's the situation? DALLAS We go for it now. Definitely. CLAYBORNE You've been going pretty solid for days now. You sure you're strong enough to get to the summit and back in twenty four hours? DALLAS It's now or never Phillip. CLAYBORNE Then two go and two of you stay behind. TAYLOR What? Let me talk to him. Phillip, this is Taylor. Why can't we all go? CLAYBORNE Two must stay back in reserve. That's an order. TAYLOR Alright. I guess the big question is which two? CLAYBORNE I'll leave that decision to Dallas. HAROLD What's going on? DALLAS We leave in half an hour. TAYLOR Wait a second. Who's going with you? DALLAS Takane. TAYLOR Listen, if it's only two to the top, you've got to send the best two climbers. DALLAS Yes, so? TAYLOR That's me and you. HAROLD Now you wait a second. TAYLOR No listen I'm sorry guys but Dallas and I have the best shot at this. HAROLD Fuck you Taylor! What is this? DALLAS Sorry my friend... but Takane and I are the summit team and that's that. TAYLOR That's bullshit. We had a deal. A deal based on fitness. I'm the fittest climber up here. You've gotta take me. DALLAS I'm not taking you. CLAYBORNE Doesn't sound very good. JACKI They won't make it tonight. Pressure's still falling. TAYLOR Dallas. This is Taylor. Come in. Dallas. Takane. This is Taylor. Do you read me? They must've switched off. What d' you think? Come on Harold. Don't do this to me. Talk to me, man. HAROLD I just can't believe you would've gone without me. TAYLOR If Dallas had chosen you instead of Takane, you would've gone without me. HAROLD No way. TAYLOR Well, that's the difference between me and you, Harold. HAROLD The difference between you and me, Taylor, is that you're only my friend as long as it doesn't cost you anything. TAYLOR We'll get our crack at it. HAROLD How d'you figure that? As soon as they come down we're gonna get off this mountain if we live through this fuckin' storm! Taylor... Taylor, wake up! What's that? TAYLOR Jesus. HAROLD Oh God! Oh. It's Takane! Shit. TAYLOR Get him in. HAROLD Oh God, he's taken a real bad fall. Easy, easy, Takane... easy. TAYLOR Oh Jesus Christ. HAROLD First aid, Taylor. TAYLOR Oh my God. HAROLD First aid. He's hurt real bad. TAYLOR Yeah. Yeah. Okay Takane. Take it easy. TAKANE Da... Dall... HAROLD What? Where is Dallas? TAKANE Wouldn't come down. No tent... lost... very bad. HAROLD It's all right, Takane. Take it easy. TAKANE Very cold. HAROLD I know. I know. Take it easy... easy. TAYLOR He's not breathing, Harold. HAROLD I can't find a pulse! I can't find a pulse! TAYLOR Are you ready? HAROLD Yeah okay. One and two and three and four and five. One and two and three and four and five. TAYLOR Come on. HAROLD One and two and three and four and five... come on. One and two and three and four and five. TAYLOR Check his pulse. HAROLD Oh shit! One and two and three and four and five. One and two and three and four and five. TAYLOR Come on Takane! Come on! HAROLD One and two and three and four and five. One and two and three and four and five. Check his pulse. Jacki? Phillip? Anyone awake down there' Jacki? Phillip? Anyone awake down there... Over. JACKI Yeah. Harold, I'm reading you. Over. HAROLD Jacki... listen... uh... Takane's dead. JACKI God! Is Dallas there? HAROLD No. Takane said something about he wouldn't come down. I'm not sure but I think they lost their tent. JACKI What do we do? TAYLOR Nothing... nothing. We can't do anything. Go look for Dallas in the morning. HAROLD We'll wait and go look for Dallas first light. Jacki? JACKI Yeah listen. Phillip's gettin' worse. I have to get him out as soon as possible. Malik's trying to get a military chopper up to us. HAROLD Well where does that leave us? JACKI A long way from home if you don't get down here real quick! HAROLD Ah, okay. TAYLOR Camp 4 to Base. Jacki, this is Taylor. Do you copy me? JACKI I copy that. Hi. TAYLOR Listen, we're all finished up here. Jacki is this weather gonna hold? JACKI It should hold today but after that I don't like it. TAYLOR Hang on. HAROLD I still wanna to climb this mountain. TAYLOR Jacki. if Dallas is on this mountain. we'll find' him. But we're going for the summit. Wish us luck. JACKI We're all with you Taylor. Good luck! TAYLOR All right. We travel light. We leave everything behind. Tent... oxygen... everything. That's all we need is 75 feet of rope. We're back here by tonight. HAROLD Oh man, we did it! We did it! TAYLOR Top of the world! HAROLD You hold that. Hold it. TAYLOR Summit party to Base Camp. Jacki, are you still with us? JACKI Taylor, Harold, where are you? TAYLOR We're on top of the fuckin' world! That was the idea, wasn't it? JACKI Yahoo. That's great! CLAYBORNE Congratulations! You guys are beautiful! TAYLOR Yes, Phillip, it's the top spot! CLAYBORNE How's the view up there? TAYLOR Oh it's probably not as good as the one from your office. But it'll do. How are you feeling? CLAYBORNE I feel like shit. I got to... I gotta get off this mountain. TAYLOR Yeah we heard about the chopper. You'll be all right. CLAYBORNE Can you be down by tomorrow night? TAYLOR Count on it. CLAYBORNE Taylor, I have to tell you I'm dying. If you're not here, we'll have to leave without you. TAYLOR We'll be there. HAROLD Phillip, it s Harold. Wish you were here, Phillip. CLAYBORNE If I was ten years younger, I would be. HAROLD Oh it could happen to anyone. CLAYBORNE Harold any sign of Dallas? HAROLD Sorry Phillip. We haven't seen him. We're gonna keep looking. That's it? TAYLOR That's it. It's all right. I lost twenty pounds one trip. HAROLD I've gotta tell you Taylor I'm a little worried. Is this the worst jam you've ever been in? TAYLOR You call this a jam? Nothing's even happened yet, Harold. HAROLD Two guys are dead and we're circling at ten thousand feet over Base Camp... in a white-out with one packet of chicken soup and no landing gear. What're you talkin' about? Nothing's happened yet. TAYLOR Just relax Harold. Everything's cool. We're gonna make it. HAROLD You're just as scared as I am. TAYLOR If I was, I wouldn't tell you. HAROLD You don't have to tell me, it's written all over your face. TAYLOR Fear is bullshit, Harold. This storm is gonna pass in 3 day or two. We're gonna be all right. JACKI It's blown' like hell up there. MALIK Can you see them? JACKI No. There's too many clouds. MALIK How's he? JACKI He's resting. Blowing like hell up there, Phillip. HAROLD Grab this. TAYLOR Got it. Harold, are you all right? HAROLD Okay. TAYLOR We're still on ice. It's right underneath you. Stay right. HAROLD Okay. Oh! Taylor! TAYLOR Alright listen. Take the rope off and rope yourself in. Harold! Harold, hang on. I'll be right there. Here... Harold. It's broken, Harold. HAROLD Cindy... Cindy... TAYLOR It's okay Harold... Harold... Harold... it's me. I'm here. HAROLD I don't want to die. TAYLOR Who said anything about that? You're gonna be all right, Harold. HAROLD You can still make it. You can make it if you go now. TAYLOR What're you talkin' about? HAROLD I'm gonna die up here. TAYLOR You're not gonna die Harold. HAROLD I can't walk. TAYLOR I'll carry you. HAROLD You... you can't carry me. Besides we don't have any rope to work anything with. TAYLOR I'll just have to go down and get all the others. HAROLD Come on Taylor. Even if you made it I'd be dead by the time you got back. TAYLOR What're you doing Harold? HAROLD I want you... I want you to give this to Cindy. Tell her... God I dunno... Tell her I loved her... Tell her I'm sorry. TAYLOR Tell her yourself Harold. HAROLD Come on Taylor. I can't walk. Just take it okay? Just get outta here. What're you gonna do? Are you gonna sit here and die with me? Bullshit! TAYLOR Do you have any idea of what you're asking me to do? You're the only real friend I have, you bastard. I'm not leavin' you here. D'you understand that? I can't live with that. HAROLD You don't have a choice. Taylor. TAYLOR Fuck you! HAROLD Oh c'mon, you know you never had a problem being selfish before. It's practically been your religion. What've you got to make such a big deal outta it now for? TAYLOR It's not gonna work Harold. You've got your wife and your kid and your research. That s great for you. My whole life has been about me. My work is about lies and compromise and dealing with the scum of the earth. So I come to places like this with you to find a little grace you know... I don't wanna be selfish all my life. I want some nobility god damnit. HAROLD You want grace. You want nobility go back! TAYLOR I can't spend the rest of my life knowing I let my best buddy die on some fuckin' mountain. HAROLD If you're really my friend, Taylor, that's exactly what you gotta do. I want you to look after my son. Tell him what a... what a big fuckin' hero I was. And tell him I loved him very much... Please... you have to go hack... please... TAYLOR You're a prince Harold. A real winner. HAROLD Fuck winner. You know what I always admired about you Taylor? You're a born survivor. I got everything I wanted, though I had to give up everything to get it. Is that winning? TAYLOR I love you Harold. JACKI All right. CLAYBORNE I'm sorry. If the chopper comes, we're not waitin'. They shouldn't've gone. It's their risk. HAROLD Taylor? TAYLOR You poor son-of-a-bitch. I don't suppose you'd mind if I borrowed your rope. HAROLD Eh... eh. CINDY (v.o.) Promise me you'll come back Harold. I love you so much. TAYLOR (v.o.) Remember Harold. Chance of a lifetime. CINDY (v.o.) Chance of a lifetime to get yourself killed. HAROLD (v.o.) Oh don't be ridiculous. CINDY (v.o.) Oh yeah. It's all here in these God dam books, Harold. "Savage Mountain". "Killer Mountain". Half of the people who go to K2 don't come back. Make your choice. HAROLD (v.o.) I'm gonna take you to a mountain with me. Yeah, a mountain. Give me a kiss. TAYLOR (v.o.) If you ask me it costs too much. Love. It's way over- priced. It's me Harold. It's Taylor. TAYLOR Hang tough Harold. I've got a Present for you from Dallas. D'you feel anything? HAROLD What? TAYLOR D'you feel anything? HAROLD Warm. TAYLOR That's good Harold. Get warm. Now come on Harold. I need you conscious. Come on Harold. Look at me. HAROLD Taylor. TAYLOR That's right buddy. I'm gonna get us off this fuckin' mountain. Come on. HAROLD Taylor. TAYLOR Come on Harold. Thatta boy. HAROLD Love costs too much huh. TAYLOR Yeah tell me about it. Hang tough Harold. Looking good, Harold. Are you okay Harold? HAROLD Okay. TAYLOR Okay. Are you ready for the next move? HAROLD I' m ready. Taylor I'm freezing. TAYLOR Me too. HAROLD I can't feel anything. TAYLOR That's good Harold. That's a good sign. All right next move. Around the crevasse... short pitches. You wanna lead? Come on Harold, we're gonna make it man. JACKI The chopper's on its way up. CLAYBORNE We'll give them two more hours. Two hours. Understood? TAYLOR Easy... easy. Harold. Harold, can you hear me? Hang tough, Harold. A little oxygen for you. Here you go. Hold that. Good boy. A little shot of adrenaline. Wouldn't mind one of these myself. We're nearly there Harold. I don't know exactly where the hell we are hut... we've gotta be close. Lookin' good Harold. MALIK What about the fuel? PILOT The fuel is enough. MALIK Good. PILOT But we have no instruction for That. JACKI Come on. We're going. MALIK I just asked him how much fuel we have to look for them. JACKI We're not communicating. The helicopter is at 17,000 feet. It can't fly any higher. MALIK We must make just one pass. JACKI Do you want him to die? MALIK No. They might still be alive. JACKI Not where we can get to them. MALIK We must just have a look. I owe that man my life. JACKI If they were within reach we could see them from here. If they're alive... if! MALIK The pilot is good. He says he will make the attempt. They climbed the mountain for you Mr. Clayborne. You cannot leave them to die. CLAYBORNE Malik please face it. They're dead! MALIK They're not! Stop being the selfish bastard like this man. He wouldn't die. PILOT We will be court-martialed, sir. MALIK I'll fake it. At least I'll be able to live with myself. PILOT But what about the orders? MALIK Come on. The orders can be broken. Let's break them for humanity's sake. JACKI Malik! What's going on? MALIK Sorry Jacki, we're going back. TAYLOR Harold... Harold... Harold... Harold... Harold. Listen Harold. Listen Harold. Yes, we did it Harold! HAROLD We're going home. TAYLOR YEEESSSS!