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- The mission report, sir.

- Yes.

I'm looking at it now. Mission failed.

All personnel lost.

Negative on a new mission.

All local access has been cut off.

Yes, sir.

We'll continue to monitor the area for further power surges

and we will recruit more assets.

- Super excited about that. - Oh, wow.

- Yeah.

- Well, very nice. - Right on.

- I was definitely wondering what he was thinking.

- Yeah, it seems like

he just kind of zones out or something.

- Yeah, I dunno,

but I don't want him wind up like Megan.

- For sure. I wonder what actually happened there.

Plus, didn't he take a nasty fall after that or something?

- I know I asked him about it,

but he kind of blew me off.

- Yeah, seems like he's stuck inside his own head.

It's hard to totally trust someone like that.

- But he is super talented.

He just needs to quiet his mind and lock it in.

- Yeah, but that's easier said than done, isn't it?

- Yeah.

- Hey guys.

- Hey, Sean.

- Hey. Did you guys hear the news?

- No. - No.

- The Forbidden Wall just opened up.

I just talked to Brette. She gave me the whole story.

- No way, the Forbidden Wall is open?

How did that happen?

- I'm not sure.

I, I guess the Native council that oversees the land

approved some expedition.

- Hasn't been like 50 years

since anyone's been back in there?

- Not sure,

but it's definitely been like a long-ass time.

- Wait, didn't something happen

the last time people went in there?

Like, didn't everyone die or something?

- 63 years.

It's been 63 years, and, um,

yeah, everyone was lost,

including my grandfather.

Um, that's really exciting though.

What, what's the story? Who's going?

- Oh, well it sounds like Kurt Carpenter hired Colton's crew

and then they'll be the first ones in,

but I'm, I'm sure they'll start reaching out

to people soon.

You guys in?

- I wish.

I have to go back to the UK the day after tomorrow,

but maybe when I'm back.

- I'm out. I got stuff going on.

- I'd love to go. I hope I get the call.

- Yes?

Uh, here it is.

Not much info here,

as the last asset was lost before debriefing.

It was mission fail.

Of course. We'll have an asset in place.

- So you think you can make it?

- Oh, definitely. I'm stoked to be invited.

- Great. I'll tell Colton you're in.

And that about fills out the team.

Can you leave right away?

- I'm packing. I'll be out the door in a few hours.

- I'll send over the directions to where we'll be set up.

We can't get as close as we'd like,

but the hike in should be manageable.

- Shouldn't be a problem.

Besides, I like a good hike anyway.

- You sure you're good, Sean?

I totally get it if it doesn't feel right.

- No.

- You can wait for Baffin Island.

- I'm totally good, okay?

Listen, no problems whatsoever.

Besides, it's too cold up in Baffin.

- Hey, now it's not like it's Antarctica or something.

Thanks, Sean.

I'm really glad you're on the team.

- Yeah, me too. Thanks for the opportunity, seriously.

- Yeah.

- Hey, I gotta go.

I'm out the door in a few hours, I promise, okay?

- Sounds good. - All right, bye.

- Looks like you're going, huh?

- Word travels fast. Just got done talking with Kurt.

- And? - He invited me.

I said yes.

- Can we at least have a conversation about this?

- Why? So you can talk me out of it.

- Your mother and I just wanna make sure

you're thinking about everything,

that's all. - Ah. So mom sent you.

Okay.

Well you can spare me the lecture, 'cause I'm going.

- Look, we just don't want anything to happen to you,

especially there.

I'm sure you can understand that.

- Yeah.

No, I get it. I get it.

Your dad died there,

and I'm, I'm really sorry

that that happened to him and to you,

but I gotta do this.

- Why? Why do you have to do this?

- Because he didn't make it?

- No, no, hey, whoa. Come on, Dad.

It's pulling at me, like this huge magnet,

and, and you don't know how that feels.

- You're right.

But I know what it feels like to lose someone,

and I promised myself that if I ever had a son,

that I would be there for him.

And that meant making decisions,

and, and, and making it about someone other than myself.

- Well, you made it.

I'm all grown up. Congrats.

You, you, you don't need

to keep protecting yourself, or me.

- All right.

- Dad.

It's the best climbers in the world,

and I'm one of them.

I can do this.

I'll be safe.

Don't worry.

- You're just attempting a climb that's never been done,

but, you know, eh, what's there to worry about.

Seriously, Sean,

it's a really dangerous climb.

No one has been up there since-

- I know. That was 60 years ago.

Our gear is way better, way safer.

- I know that. I know, I know you have all this.

But things can still go wrong.

I mean, remember Megan, and, and and your own fall.

It's, it- - Jesus Christ.

- Seems like you're a little off lately, that's all.

- Really? You too, Dad?

Wow, okay. Thanks for the pep talk.

- Son, I didn't mean it like that.

You, you are an amazingly talented climber,

and I have always supported this journey.

Ah, look, I know I can't stop you from going.

Just want you to get back okay.

Making it to the top is not worth your life.

It's just, it's just not worth it.

- Don't worry.

- Yeah, no, I, no, I worry. That's what this dad does.

Your mother's pretty worried, too,

but you know how she gets about this.

- I'm sorry. I'm not doing it on purpose, but-

- I know.

- You're just gonna have to trust me on this one, okay?

- Any idea why the tribe is allowing access now?

I mean it seems so out of the blue.

- I don't know.

All I know,

is they're only inviting a few people back there.

- They usually don't let anyone near that thing.

- Well, they've done it before.

- They sure did.

- I'm still going, Dad.

- Yeah, I know. I know.

Just make it back okay, all right?

I can't lose someone else to that damn thing.

- For the first time in 63 years,

the rock face known

as the Forbidden Wall is now accessible.

The tribal council that oversees the land voted last week

to allow a climbing expedition access to the remote wall.

The area's been strictly off-limits

ever since the ill-fated expedition way back in 1959.

The tribe is.

Hey. Is this the way for climbing access?

- Yeah. You on the climbing team?

- Yeah.

Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out where they're at.

- Yeah, we'll just keep going.

You'll see the trailers up ahead.

- Okay.

- It's kind of bogus, if you ask me.

I think everyone should be able to climb.

- Are you're trying to climb the wall?

- Yeah, except I wanna base jump off the top.

- Wow, man. - Fuckin' eh, man.

Go big or go home.

- Well, good luck with your jump.

- Hey, maybe you can help me out a little?

Maybe get him to let me park up there at the base?

- Dude, I don't know

if you're talking to the right guy.

I have zero pull, man.

- Well put it in a good word for me, yeah?

- All right, yeah. I'll see what I can do.

Hope you make your jump.

- Hey man, the only way to fall is with a chute.

- Well, well, well.

- Hey, Colton.

How's it going?

- It's going great. We got a good setup.

The weather seems to be holding. Ready to do this.

I'm glad you came.

It must be, uh, must be a bit hard for you.

- It's a bit strange, for sure,

but I wasn't gonna miss this.

Any idea why the tribe opened it up?

- Sitting down with Chief Guyustees

in a couple hours to go over it.

I'm not sure why they did it, and I'm not complaining.

But they only wanted the one team, so you know, here we are.

- So nobody else gets to climb?

- As of right now, just the eight people on our team.

Not sure if they'll let another group up after us.

- Well, I'm ready, so tell me when, all right?

- Copy that. Go get some rest.

You look like shit.

But hey, having a team briefing later, so stay close.

- Hey dad. - Hey, hey, bud.

How's it going?

- I'm here. Just waiting to figure out the details.

I was napping.

- Okay, when do you think you'll know?

- I don't know. Should be soon, though.

- He doesn't know when he's starting yet, honey.

Well, well, well, let us know when you know, okay?

- Okay, dad. I will tell Mom not to worry, okay?

- Yeah. Yeah. Well you know how that goes.

- You just take care, all right?

- Hey, uh, I gotta go. I'm gonna find out soon, okay?

I'll call or text you later, all right?

- All right, all right. Bye.

- Colton.

Hey. - What's up?

Just about to start the meeting.

- I just wanna talk more about the team,

'cause I want to climb.

- And we've been over this.

You're staying down here as the coordinator.

- You don't think I'm good enough? That's it, right?

- Of course you're good enough,

but the plan has always been for you to stay on the ground.

- Hey, that was your plan, not mine.

And I don't think you want me up there

because you know I'm gonna call you out on your bullshit.

- Look,

you'll do as I say, okay?

This is my company, my expedition,

and the decision has been made, and you are not climbing.

That's final.

- Whatever you say, boss.

- Damn right. - Yeah.

- Hey. - What?

- I know you want to climb,

but I need you down here handling things, okay?

You're the only one who can do it.

- Fine

- If we get a second team on the wall, if,

you can climb, but for now, I need you down here.

All good?

- Sure.

- Fantastic.

- Hoo-hoo-hoo. Lovers' spat?

- So funny. Are you ready for tomorrow?

- Yeah, I should be.

I mean we're still waiting on the max signal booster,

but I doubt we'll even need it.

- Well, I don't wanna hear "should be,"

because we don't have visual on these guys,

so comms are gonna be crucial, yeah?

- I'm on it.

- All right, you better be, you weirdo.

- Yeah, this is gonna be fun.

This is gonna be fun.

- Quiet down, people. Quiet down.

Okay, first things first. I'm in charge, end of story.

You don't like it, there's the door.

I've got 30 other people ready to replace you.

Good.

Now, we don't know how long the weather will hold,

so speed will be the priority.

Guyustees said it should be about a week or so.

We're already two days in,

so we need to get this show on the road.

Be climbing three teams of two with two of you on standby.

The teams will be Jessie and myself, Emily and Lucky,

Kristen and Brad.

Sean, you and Justin will be on standby if anyone needs help

or, uh, anything else comes up.

Oh,

the chief wanted an international flavor

to the team,

so here representing the crown, everyone, welcome Brad.

- Cheers, mate.

I'm just chuffed to be here, guys.

- All right, moving right along.

Now we don't have much info,

but it appears to be pretty solid granite.

There might be a crack system running up through here.

Looks like all possible lines head up to this crux area.

So we'll spread out the three teams, converge on the crux,

three days, two nights tops, and move fast.

- Are we using aid or trying to free climb the road?

- Climbing looks tough,

which just could be anywhere from 5.11s to 5.13,

so to go fast we'll probably use some aid.

- What about probe? Are you putting bolts?

- Negative on bolts.

Okay, the chief was very specific about this.

This is a sacred mountain, so nothing goes into the rock.

We'll use cams and nuts.

Look, guys, obviously safety's the top priority, okay?

But there's a reason

that each and every one of you are here.

You can climb this.

- Is there a walk off?

- Doubtful. Plan is to rap down the face.

- Hey, sorry to interrupt.

The chief needs to see you for a few minutes.

- Guys, this is Kerrie.

She'll be on top of things down here and make no mistake,

she is the boss.

Well, almost.

- It's nice to see you guys.

Nice to see a few familiar faces.

I look forward to working with you.

- Hey, Chief, we're almost finished.

- No rush. I'd like to talk to everybody anyway.

- Of course, team, this is Chief Guyustees.

He oversees this land,

so please give him your utmost respect.

- Thank you, Colton.

Thank you for traveling all the way up

to the middle of nowhere to our little community.

It's been a long time since we allowed anyone

to approach the wall, let alone attempt to climb it.

Our council debated whether to allow access,

but we felt this was the right time and the right people.

There are rules,

so keep in mind this is for your own safety.

Only the climbers are allowed in the area,

and we will offer support when needed.

And we ask that any other outsiders stay out.

Again, this is for your safety.

If Colton hasn't already mentioned it,

please do not deface the mountain.

It is sacred land to our people.

- I made that a priority, Chief.

We'll be good stewards of the land while we're here,

I can assure you of that,

and we are all very grateful for this opportunity.

- Good luck to you all,

and hope the great Raven Spirit lifts you up.

And I'm sure we'll be seeing some of you down the road.

- Thank you, Chief. Kerrie and I'll be right with you.

- Thanks, Chief.

- Okay, everybody get some rest.

Breakfast is at 4:30, we start at 5:30.

They say it's a three-hour approach,

so we're gonna do it in half that.

See Kerrie later if you need any portage or gear.

If you're sleeping in a van, you can park it here.

Otherwise put your tent nearby.

All right, that's it.

- Thanks guys.

- Wow. Seems like it's gonna be a banger, right?

- Oh, we just need to get up as fast.

- Easy for you to say. You're the speed queen.

- Hey Jessie is just as fast as me.

- No way.

I could barely keep up with you on the Sky Tower.

- Yeah, well you shouldn't have been out

on the strip all night.

- Hindsight's 20/20.

- Well that sounds like a good time to me.

- Be careful what you ask for.

Everything is a competition with her.

- Hey, it's not my fault that everyone is slow.

- Hey, we're not slow, we're just not fast.

- Oh, okay.

- So, uh, Sean,

anything you can tell us about the climb?

- Um, no, no. Nothing that we don't already know.

- I'm sorry about your grandfather, Sean.

- It's okay.

It's a difficult climb, and he, uh, just didn't make it.

- Well, I might not be climbing tomorrow,

but I still gotta get ready.

Not in my 20s anymore, so I'll see you all later.

- Yep, uh, same.

Basically on site and just wanting be prepared.

- Same.

- Well, that ended quickly. Time to pack.

- All right, time to go. - Hey, are you okay?

I'm sorry I brought your grandfather up.

- No, no, no, no, I'm fine, yeah.

I mean I guess everybody knows about that, so.

- I'm sure you're tired of talking about it.

- No, it's fine. It's fine.

I mean I didn't really know him,

so it doesn't affect me much,

and, you know, people want to know, so.

He wasn't the only one that died here.

- Um, we need to climb together sometime,

maybe in the Valley. - Yeah, yeah.

I'd make the trip up, for sure.

- I remember hearing about

some impressive free solos you did.

Still have a death wish?

- No, no, no. Haven't been doing that lately.

Sticking with ropes.

- Come in, team. This is base camp.

- I can barely hear you guys.

- Do you copy? - Kerrie, dammit,

you get the signal cleaned up.

We're gonna lose comms.

- Yeah, copy that, Colton. We will see what we can do.

Base camp out.

Hey, what is with all the static?

Colton says it's giving him a hard time.

- Yeah, I'm working on it.

I'm not exactly sure where it's coming from.

- That's encouraging. - It's kind of weird.

- Weird.

Yeah?

- Hey. - Hey.

- How's it going up there? - Uh, it's great.

They're a bit behind, but they're making progress.

- How far up are they?

- Can't see 'em, so we don't exactly know.

- Okay, well I'm around if you need me.

- All right.

- See ya.

- Okay guys, let's stop for now.

Set up camp when you get some good anchors in.

- Um, You just,

you don't really know who to count on.

- How high was the

- Hello, Sean.

- How'd you know it was me?

How do you know my name?

- The Ravens told me you were out for a walk.

I've been waiting to talk to you.

- Me?

What, what, what for?

- You need to finish what your grandfather couldn't.

- Oh shit. You too.

- I'm not talking about the climb.

He made it to the top.

- You, you know about this. How?

- What I know was passed down many generations.

There's an evil on top of the rock,

a nameless presence trying to escape.

The stories tell the evil that came from the sky

hundreds of years ago.

It drove our ancestors mad.

Our greatest warrior was able to contain it

on top of the rock.

- What does this,

what does this have to do with my grandfather?

- It needs two people to escape.

Your grandfather sacrificed himself to protect the world.

- I'm not sure I get it.

Why did he have to sacrifice himself?

What, what exactly is up there?

- I don't know exactly what is up there.

The stories tell of spirits

that could break into people's minds.

- Did he know?

Did he know what was up there?

- He did.

- I mean, he still went. Why, why, why would he do that?

- He knew what was at stake, but he went willingly.

I wasn't an elder back then,

but I knew they decided to act

for the same reason he acted now.

- So you knew all about this.

Why, why would you let anyone climb?

The power is fading.

There are several governments

that know about the strange power here.

If that evil were able to get out,

there's no telling what it can do and where it would stop.

We can only keep them away for so long.

You need to pick up where your grandfather left off

and seal that evil in forever.

- You want me to do what, exactly?

You want me to go up there, and?

No, we need to get everyone down as fast as we can,

not go up. - No.

It must be sealed in.

- What am I supposed to do?

I'm just a rock climber.

- That's where you're wrong.

You're strong enough to reach it,

and you're strong enough to keep it at bay.

- Keep it at bay?

- When you're high in the air,

doing something that most people think is dangerous,

is the noise loud in your head?

- No, no, no, it's not it.

I'm totally focused on the now,

not thinking about what I'll do for dinner,

what my girlfriend's doing.

I'm, I'm, I'm just living,

just breathing, quiet.

- The quiet is its weakness.

Embrace the quiet in your head and block out the noise

and you can defeat it.

Maybe the stories aren't true,

maybe it's old superstition, maybe nothing happens,

but what happened 60 years ago happened,

so you must prepare yourself.

Take this.

It carries the Raven's spirit.

Remember the quiet.

- Hey, whoa, whoa, wait, wait a minute. That's it?

- I have nothing more to tell. It's out my hands now.

- Fuck.

- You asleep?

- Not yet. Pretty tough to sleep.

- Yeah, tell me about it.

Wish we could climb in the dark.

- Yeah, I'm out on that.

- Can I ask you something?

- Sure.

- Why do people call you Lucky?

- Well, when I was younger, I lived up in Telluride,

and, uh, for some stupid reason,

I got really into ice climbing.

So me and my buddy decided

to climb this 100-foot ice hill called Silver Pick.

We got there, and there was like

this hollowed-out ice chimney

that goes maybe three quarters of the way up.

There's no way either of us could have led it,

but my buddy had delusions of grandeur

'cause of this climb and 'cause of this chimney.

And he thought he'd make his way up in that

and then figure out the rest.

Gets maybe 50 feet up,

runs outta screws, and decides to come back down.

- No way. - Yeah.

So I decide, 'cause I'm an idiot,

that I'll give it a shot

and at least get some of the screws back.

So here I go up this chimney, and it's going great.

So, ready to get to the top, and that's when the fun began.

I proceeded to try to smash my way outta this chimney.

By some miracle, I'm able to pull myself out

and onto the overhang.

At this point, my arms are completely blown up

and I really need to recover, so I grab a screw,

which happens to be a thick belay screw,

and as I'm putting it in, I drop it.

- Shit. - Yeah.

I look down and I only have one screw left,

which is not enough to get to the top.

At this point, my arms are shaking and I'm gonna peel soon,

so I grab the screw, start hammering it in.

I'm holding with my teeth so I don't drop it.

Finally get the screw in, able to rest on it.

Buddy thinks I should just come down

and sacrifice the one screw,

but I'm thinking I have real shot at this,

so I rest for a bit

and decided to blast up the last 15 feet.

Within than five feet,

my arms are cramping and shaking, and I totally fell.

- Holy shit, dude.

- Yeah.

Thankfully, the screw held.

Otherwise I would've ping ponged down the chimney

with spikes on my feet and arms.

Not exactly what you want.

- So what did you do?

- Rested for a bit and eventually dropped down.

So stupid though.

Then a few weeks later,

I was doing the O chute in Ophir

and like as soon as I drop in,

I lose a ski and start to tumble.

I fell like a few hundred feet down the chute

Missed the rocks, and I was okay,

but never found that ski, though.

Just skied back down to Ophir on one ski and deep pow.

Totally sucked.

- I guess you were lucky.

- Yeah.

So, after emerging from those two close calls and escaped,

people started to call me Lucky.

- All right. It's getting hairy.

- What's happening? - Get get outta my head.

- Where is it? - Make it stop.

- Get out of my head. - Is it here?

- Make it stop. - Where am I?

- Is it here? - Is it here?

- Get out of my head. - Is it here?

- Someone make it stop. - Is it gone?

- What's happening to me? - Make it stop!

- Get out of my head.

- Get out of my head. - Is it here?

Where am I? - Get out of my head.

- Where is it? Am I me?

- I am Charles Lewis. I love my mother.

- Hey, uh, everyone good?

- What just happened?

- Yeah, what the hell was that?

- Is it gone?

- I'm not sure.

If we're all clear, we should keep moving.

We still got a ways to go.

Base camp, do you copy?

- What the hell just happened?

- I have no idea.

Some sort of interference?

- Colton, this is base camp. Do you copy?

Anyone, do you copy? Repeat.

Colton? You hear me?

- Yep.

- What's going on? We just don't have comms?

- I have no idea.

I mean, I'm working on it,

but I keep needing to boost the signal.

- Well keep boosting. Get it back.

- Now, what the hell?

- Hey, Kerrie, do you have a second?

- No, actually no, Sean, not now.

Okay, we're dealing with a comms issue.

We just lost contact with the team.

- The, the chief told me some really crazy shit last night.

- Okay, Sean, not now, okay?

- All right.

Look, I, I think you really might want-

- Sean, I'm gonna need you to go.

- All right.

- Hoo-hoo-hoo. Scary Kerrie.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sean, hold up. Uh, sorry.

Sorry, I'm a little bit stressed.

So go ahead. What kind of crazy shit?

- Look, I, I don't even know how to explain it, okay?

He's talking about some kind of evil presence

that makes people go insane.

- Uh, okay.

All right, Sean, my suggestion is don't eat the mushrooms

when you're in the forest.

- Yeah. All right. - Okay.

- Come on. Kerrie, you know me.

I know this sounds crazy.

- The only evil up there is what they take with him.

Nature is neutral.

- Slack. Colton, gimme some slack.

- Sorry about that.

- You're really moving fast.

- Hey, it is looking a little gnarly down here.

Might have to go five to 10 feet without probes,

so watch out for a whipper.

- Copy. You got this.

- Sweet, perfect. Thanks. - Oh, there you are.

I've been looking all over for you.

- Here I am. What's up?

- I need to talk to you, okay?

- Okay. All good?

- Hey Brad, are you okay?

- Brad, do you copy?

- Everything good over there?

- Uh, yeah, I think so, um,

Brad's in a tricky spot and I can't contact him.

- Okay, keep me posted.

- Hello there, team. This is base camp.

Does anyone copy?

Hello, team. This is base camp.

Anyone there? Over.

Hey guys, somebody talk to me.

This is base camp calling the team. Over.

- Brad, what's going on?

Brad, your rack!

- Okay, what's going on out there?

Someone talk to me. Over

- Brad?

- Hey guys. Radio check. - Copy.

- Copy that. - Copy here, too.

- Kristen, Brad, do you copy?

- You coming down?

- Don't cry. Mommy's here now.

This will all be over soon.

Come on, Kristen.

Mommy's here now.

- Brad, stop. What are you doing?

Brad, stop. What are you doing?

Stop it.

Brad, stop. Stop.

No!

No.

No, don't do this.

Brad, no! Brad!

- Whoa. What was that?

That, that sounded like a...

- Okay, come on, help me out here, guys.

Somebody talk to me. What's going on?

Kristen? Kristen, you okay?

- Base camp, do you copy?

Brad has fallen.

Repeat, Brad fell.

He's gone.

- Kristen, what happened?

Come on, man, clean it up.

- Kristen, what happened?

- He fell and I couldn't save him.

- Kristen?

Come in, Kristen. What happened?

- What? That doesn't make any sense.

- I know it doesn't make sense.

I can't explain it, okay?

He just went, he just went fucking crazy.

- Okay, okay, calm down.

- Can you...

Okay, you guys get your gear. Get ready to climb.

- Will do. - Okay.

- Kristen, you okay? Can you tell me what happened?

Brad, do you copy?

Does anyone else copy?

- Can you climb down?

- Negative. I've lost the rope and I don't have the rack.

- Did you make contact with base camp?

Did they know what happened?

- I don't know.

Transmissions were breaking up,

and I, I'm not sure sure what they heard.

I can't contact them.

- Stay put. We'll figure something out.

- Kristen or Brad, do you copy?

Colton, do you copy?

All right, Sean, Justin, you are clear to climb.

I want you to head up Brad and Kristen's line.

Hopefully you get up there and we can make radio contact.

Over.

- Copy that. On our way.

We gotta move fast. - Right behind you.

Tell me the rest of the chief's story on the way.

- Okay everyone, here's the deal.

I'm gonna climb up to Jessie,

and we're gonna swing over to meet up with Emily and Lucky.

It's a straight shot up from there.

Kristen, you stay put. Wait for Sean and Justin.

If I know Kerrie, she already sent them up

as soon as she lost contact.

- Are you still thinking of climbing

after what happened?

- Wait, we're just gonna leave Kristen there?

We need to make sure she's okay.

- It's tragic what happened to Brad,

but it's still my call.

If I say we go, we go.

We'll discuss it when we meet up, and yes,

we're gonna let Sean and Justin do their jobs.

End of debate. Out.

- Chief's story's pretty out there.

- I mean it seems crazy, but I feel like it was the truth.

- But if it's true,

we probably shouldn't be climbing up there.

You didn't tell me everything that Chief said, did you?

- No, yeah, yeah I did. Yeah, that was everything.

- You sure you're ready for this?

- Yeah, yeah, dude, I'm good.

- All right.

You want the first pitch?

- Sure, why not?

- Oh my god. Oh my God.

- Ah shit.

Dammit!

- Are you okay?

- Yeah. Just gimme a minute to shake it off.

- Yeah, yeah, I got you. Take your time.

- I think I may have a problem here.

- How bad is it?

- I can't put any weight on it.

- All right, I'm gonna lower you down to me, okay?

- Okay. Yeah, go ahead.

Dammit. I wrecked myself pretty good.

Sorry, brother.

- We just need to figure out how to get down safely.

- But if we go down...

- Kristen is stranded.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

We can't just leave her there. All right.

You take the extra rope and a few rap anchors

and you get yourself down.

I'll take this rope, the rack, the haul bag,

and I'll climb up to her, okay?

I don't think it's very far. I think I can make it.

- I don't think I can make it down by myself.

- All right, let's call it in.

We'll tell Kerrie, and then we'll figure it out.

Hey, uh, base camp, this is Sean. Do you copy?

Justin hurt his leg.

He's gonna be okay, but he can't continue. Over.

- Copy that. What's your situation?

- I'm fine, but Justin needs to come down.

- Are you both coming down?

Somebody still needs to help Kristen.

- So what are you saying?

- What I'm saying is that I'm gonna help Justin get down

and then I'm gonna help Kristen.

- Hi.

Are you hearing this?

Sean, just hang on a minute.

- You can go up there alone?

- I mean, can't just leave her up there.

- Good point.

- Sean, Justin, this is Kerrie.

Stay where you are.

I'm coming to get you. You copy?

- Yeah, we copy. Are you coming up to here?

- Yes.

I'll help get Justin down, and then we can get Kristen.

So drop your rope as low as you can get it,

and I'll have someone belay me from the bottom.

Should be enough to get me to you.

- She's a good climber.

Still gonna take a little while for her to get here, though.

- Yeah, too long. I need to be climbing like now.

Yeah, we copy.

All right. You belay me from here.

I'm gonna run the rope up as high as it'll go.

I'll untie, drop the rope back down for Kerrie,

and that should leave me with just a little bit of ways

to go without a rope.

- Are you sure?

You don't know the route,

you don't know exactly where she's at.

- Yeah. Yeah.

- There's no room for mental lapses.

- I'll be fine. I got it.

I'll just follow the chalk line

and then maybe when I get close enough,

the radio we'll be back up.

- Hey, it's your call.

- So you're really going up there?

- What else am I supposed to do?

- Even though Colton said for us to stay right here?

- Oh, oh, Colton.

Yeah, Colton says a lot of things,

and we can't talk to Colton right now,

and he can't say anything to us.

So I'm gonna gear up. I'm gonna go out there.

I'm gonna bring Justin back,

and hopefully I'll be back before dark.

- Who's going up there with you?

- Tommy. He's more than capable of belaying me.

All right, uh, stay here.

Figure this out.

- Yeah.

- Oh, Chief Guyustees. Did you recover him?

- Yes. The body has been brought back.

Here's the camera.

- Thank you. I'm really sorry about this.

We're gonna check the camera

and see if it caught what happened.

- It's not always what you can see. It's what you can hear.

- Okay.

Listen, we have an injured climber on the wall,

so I'm- - Do not go any higher

than the one with the injured leg.

It's for your own safety.

- Okay. No problem.

- Sean has already left, and out of reach.

- What?

Here, um, check the footage from the helmet cam, please.

I, I gotta run.

- Are you? Oh, okay.

Okay.

Yikes.

- Huh.

That's weird.

Oh, this is gonna take a while.

- Lucky, Emily, do you copy?

- Yeah. What's up?

- You start veering to your left.

We'll start veering to the right.

We should meet up on the pitch or so.

- Copy that.

- Colton to base camp.

Do you copy? Over.

Base camp, this is Colton.

Do you copy? Over.

- Justin, do you copy?

- Yeah, I copy.

- I'm at the end of the rope. Dropping it down.

- Copy that. Bombs away.

- Rope!

Okay. I'm now off-rope.

- Copy that. Stay strong and good luck.

- Uh, on the wall and climbing.

- Copy. The rope is down there for you.

- See you soon.

- Making it to the top, it's just not worth it.

- I don't wanna wind up like Megan.

- Sean? I'm falling!

Sean!

- Remember the quiet. Remember the quiet.

Remember the quiet.

- Can anybody hear me?

- Yeah, yeah, Kristen.

This is Sean. I hear you.

I'm on my way over to you. Over.

- Sean, where are you?

- Not far from you, just below.

- Who's with you? Can you see me?

- It's just me. Long story.

Uh, I can't see you yet, but I'm on my way.

Signing off to concentrate. Over.

- Copy. Be careful, Sean.

- Glad you made it.

Thanks for bail me out. - Don't mention it.

You gonna be okay to get down?

- Yeah, I think so.

- Okay. Sean?

- Hopefully already with Kristen.

- Jesus Christ. What a stupid thing to do.

- Yeah.

He hasn't peeled yet, so there's still hope.

- Any radio contact?

Okay.

- It's okay. They're outta reach.

Did really well, but we have to go down.

Kerrie, it is time to go.

- Yeah, yeah. All right.

- Okay, let's see if there's anything on here.

Oh, at least it was recording.

- Whoa.

Holy shit.

- Brad, stop, what are you doing?

What are you doing?

Stop, stop. Don't do it.

No, no.

Oh, thank you, Tony.

- Are you there, Sean?

Sean, can you hear me?

- I'm here. I hear you.

I can see you. Another 10 minutes.

- Okay.

- Well that was fun.

- I cannot believe you did that.

Thank you. I owe you.

- I couldn't just leave you up here.

It was an easy decision.

Okay. Let's get ready for the night.

- Man, Colton seems pissed.

- When isn't he pissed?

- Poor Jess.

- Has anyone heard from Kristen? Base camp?

- Nope.

- Don't you think that's kind of weird?

- I'm sure Kristen's fine. There's nothing to worry about.

- What? Just magically fine?

Look, I don't know about this, Colton.

This is super sketchy. We just left her.

It's totally not cool. - I have confidence in Kerrie,

and in Sean and in Justin.

We continue the climb.

- All right.

- Colton seems determined to finish this climb.

- Shocker.

- Something seems off about this whole thing.

- What do you mean?

- How many climbs have you been on where someone died?

- None.

- Well, I have. We stopped after it happened.

Just seems like,

like,

like we're being driven up this wall, no matter what.

I dunno.

- Look, I, I think everyone is just anxious.

And trying to do something that's never been done?

I mean, yeah, it's horrible what happened with Brad,

but if Colton wants to continue, I'm good with it.

Will you be?

- Thank you for saving my life.

- I'm sure you would've done the same for me.

- I don't think so.

I'm not really a free solo climber.

- It's really not that different

from climbing on the rope.

- Yeah right. It's a bit different.

Did it feel good to be free soloing again?

- Yeah, it did. Yeah.

I just love that feeling, you know?

Just being totally locked in,

you're not thinking of anything

except that section of rock that you're on.

It's total concentration with a clear mind.

So what happened?

- I don't know.

He was above me and I couldn't see,

and then the next thing I know,

the rope comes down, and then his rack.

And then he, um, started to climb down

like a spider.

- What?

Wait, wait, wait. Like a spider?

- Yeah. No rope, just climbing straight down, crawling.

- What the fuck?

And then what happened?

- Then he tried to undo my anchors.

And then I heard these voices

that sounded like my mom.

And then right before he pushed me off the rock,

he made this awful noise, and then...

- Hey, hey, hey.

It's okay. It's okay.

- And then he fell and I couldn't save him.

- Hey, um, I need to talk to you about something.

- So that's it? We're climbing tomorrow?

- You're damn right.

I'm sorry for what happened to Brad. I am.

But he knew the risk,

and this is literally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

- We don't even know what happened to him.

- And that matters?

How? Hmm?

He fell. It doesn't matter how he fell.

All we need to do is stay focused, and we won't fall.

- You're pretty hard on Lucky.

- I don't care. He knows what's at stake here.

- Prick.

- Oh, sorry I'm so slow. - Hey come on. You're fine.

Just here, watch the,

watch it.

- Oh my God! - Jesus!

- Oh, it's you. Thank God. - Fuck.

- We need to get back to camp like right now.

- What is it you think we're doing exactly, huh?

- Okay. Seriously though.

You need to see this. You need to hear it, too.

It is crazy. - Okay, slow down.

We can't go any faster, all right?

- Sorry. I can't go any faster.

- No, you're fine. You're fine.

What are you doing out here?

- Well, I, I, I came out to put up the big booster

that Tony gave to me,

but apparently the tribe doesn't like

having non-climbers on their land.

So I think I got rid of them,

but I, I really should not be here anymore.

- Yeah, go. We will meet you there.

- Okay. Hurry, please.

- Okay. Come on.

- So there's an evil entity up here,

and it drives people mad?

- Sort of.

Look,

it sounds like that might've been what happened to Brad.

I mean, you said he went crazy, right?

- Yes. It was horrible.

I can't even describe it.

- I mean, that fits the story, right?

- You know, it did seem like a struggle in my head

right after we heard this fucking sound.

- Sound? What kind of sound?

What did it sound like?

- It was creepy. Like, uh, like it was alive or something.

- Okay.

Look, look, I don't know

if that's what the chief is talking about,

but it might be, okay?

I mean, what if it's all true?

- We have to tell the others and warn them.

- How? We don't have radio.

- Maybe we could climb higher

and then they could hear us. You

- Want to keep climbing?

- I'm up for it if you are.

- I'll think about it.

- You good? - Yeah. Thanks.

- Okay. Show us.

- Yep.

- Brad, stop. What are you doing?

What are you doing?

Stop. No.

- What the fuck? - Brad, stop. Stop!

- I have never seen anyone move like that.

- Jesus.

He's attacking her?

- Then he falls right after that.

- This is some crazy stuff.

- Man, that's not even the crazy part.

When you threw that helmet at me earlier?

- Yeah. - It hit the receiver.

It changed the channel,

and it shouldn't have been anything coming through

on that station, but this was coming through.

- Right? - Okay.

- So then when I was checking the footage from the cam,

I heard this.

- That sounds like the same noise, yeah?

- Yeah, that's what I thought, too.

So I went back to the radio, did a little fiddling,

and I heard this.

Hold on one second.

Here we go.

Pretty fucked up, right?

- What the hell is that? - I don't know.

It's just on repeat like a loop continuously.

- Wait, so that's still playing?

- Yeah, only on that channel, though,

that was not supposed to have anything on it.

- I, I don't know.

I mean, the chief's story

is starting to make a little bit more sense.

- The, the chief's story, the, the,

about the evil or whatever? - I'm sorry.

The evil or whatever? - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- I mean, you have to admit this shit

is not easy to explain.

- Okay. Whatever it is, it can wait.

How long until the booster's up and running?

- I don't know. It should be up pretty soon.

- Great. Just get that working.

We can talk to Colton, and I'm sure that Sean and Kristen

will be down in the morning.

- I wouldn't be so sure.

- The fuck does that mean?

- I get the feeling that he didn't tell me everything

that the chief told him.

He, he seems to be on a mission.

- Okay.

I would like to know a little bit more about the evil

that is on top of the mountain.

Seriously?

- Emily?

Are you going to the bathroom?

Everything okay?

Do you need some help?

I've been in some embarrassing spots before.

Emily? Emily, what are you doing?

- Where are you, Daddy? Are you coming back, Daddy?

Where are you?

Where are you, Daddy?

Are you coming back, Daddy?

- Jesus Emily. Emily stop, stop, stop!

Emily, stop, stop!

- Stop. - Don't leave me, Daddy.

Please don't leave me.

Please, Daddy. I'm scared, Daddy.

- Colton, Colton, shine the light on her.

- I am Sean Dunham. I love my family.

I live in Las Vegas.

- Where is it? - I am Sean Dunham.

- Is it here? - I love my.

- Hey.

- Emily, no!

- Lucky, are you okay?

- No, I'm not okay.

I'm alive, but I'm definitely not okay.

- Hold on. I'm gonna get you back up to the ledge.

- Oh my God. So that was it, huh?

- Yeah.

- Do you wanna keep climbing?

- Definitely. You?

- I mean, the others are probably closer to the top

and on a completely different line.

- We'll have to get an early start and go as fast as we can.

- I felt it in my head,

which means it could be in anyone's head.

It could be in your head.

- Are you,

you know, you?

- That's what I'm afraid of.

- Holy shit.

Oh.

What the fuck?

- Wait, what just happened?

Is, um, is she gone?

- Yeah.

She just fell after trying to kill me.

- What? She tried to kill you?

- Yeah, she tried to drop the ledge

and then the rope I was on, so yeah,

she tried to kill me. - Hold on. We don't know that.

- What the fuck were you looking at, dude?

Your lamp was on her.

She defied gravity and ran across the rock.

- That sounds crazy. - Because it is crazy.

- The only thing crazy here is you.

People are dropping like flies,

we have no comms,

and apparently gravity doesn't exist up here.

I'm going down as soon as I can,

and you guys should too. - No.

We are not stopping now. We are finishing the climb.

- I'm not climbing another inch up this fucking rock.

People are dying, Colton. It's not worth it.

- What about you?

You too scared to keep climbing?

- Fuck you, Colton. I may be scared, but I'm not stupid.

- Well, unless you want a free solo up this thing,

looks like we're all climbing down together.

- Yeah.

- I'm moving over there.

- Hey, sorry it's so late.

Um, did you get the files that I sent you?

- Yeah, yeah, I checked it out a little bit ago.

- Great. And?

- You know, I'm not really sure what to make of it.

At first, I thought it was some feedback

or something military, but it is way more complex.

I ran it through a few filters,

and I kind of narrowed it down to a few frequencies.

But then I remember Mark.

You remember Mark from the club meeting?

- Um, yeah. He was the guy with the cool ham rig, right?

- He has an algorithm that's really good

at isolating frequencies, so I ran it through that.

- Okay. And um?

- Dude, it's crazy.

I've never seen something like that before.

- Something like what?

- Something it's like, it's like,

it's almost like there was something attached to it.

- What do you mean attached? Like, like something extra?

- Yeah, there was just a tiny bit of extra signal

that shouldn't have been there.

- Uh-huh. Okay.

Um, and what about the, uh, the images?

- Oh well that's the easy part.

I, I'm sending you some software to help you interpret them.

- Okay, fantastic.

Thank you, Bill. I really appreciate that.

And I'll, I'll let you know how it all goes.

- Yeah, please do.

And you bring the donuts for the meeting next time.

- Okay, sounds good. I'll talk to you soon, okay?

- You ready to do this?

- As ready as I'll ever be.

- You want the first pitch?

- Of course.

- There you are. - Oh, hi.

- Oh, good morning.

- Yeah.

- There you go. - Thank you.

- All right, what's the situation?

- Well, I've been up all night

and I got something to show you.

- What the hell is that?

- So in the late 1600s,

this English scientist rubbed a violin bow

across a plate covered in flour,

and he noticed that the flower vibrated

into specific geometric patterns based on the frequency.

This was called cymatics by this Swiss guy.

- Cymatics?

Do we have any idea where these shapes are coming from?

- Yeah, it's coming through the radio and the white noise.

It's this specific layered signal.

It's doing both audio and the cymatic images.

- Any idea what it means?

- Yeah, well, so each image has its own frequency.

When I run it through the software, we get this.

- I am here. Come to me.

I am here. - What the fuck is that?

- Come to me.

- I think that the chief's story is true,

and that whatever is up there, it, it's talking to us.

- Okay. First things first.

We need to get the comms working

so we can warn them to come down, okay?

What, what is the situation with the radio?

- Stayed up late trying to get the booster to work,

and I was just about to try it out.

- All right, let's hope this works.

- You don't wanna do this.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Give it a rest dude. It's over.

- Base camp to Sean. Do you copy?

Does anyone copy?

- Yeah, base camp this is Sean. I copy you.

- Oh, good to hear you. What's your status?

- Kristen and I are climbing up

to make contact with the others

- Negative. Kerrie wants to come down now.

Do you copy?

- We're trying to get within range of the other teams first.

Something might have happened last night.

- Something happened? What is he talking about?

- I don't know. Do we tell him about the message?

- Kerrie here, only climb as high

as you need to make contact, okay?

Do you copy?

- Copy. We'll let you know when we make contact.

- We need to find out what happened.

- Colton, do you copy? This is Sean.

- Yeah, I got you, Sean. Go ahead.

- What's your status?

- We're on our way down.

Lucky and Jessie both bailed, and I have no other choice.

Did you get to Kristen?

- Yeah, I got her.

We're a little below you and over a few lines.

- Sean, you should come down with us.

Emily went crazy and fell. Seriously, get outta here.

- Shit. We thought we heard something.

- You ready to finish this Sean? You and me?

- Hey, I'm still here too, you know.

- You guys are crazy.

Go down on a rope while you still can.

- Okay, Colton, let's do this. Coming to you.

- You sure you're good with this?

- Absolutely.

- Okay. Man, this is gonna piss Kerrie off.

Sean to base base camp. Do you copy?

- Yeah, we copy, Sean.

We heard you transmitting.

Did you make contact with Colton?

- Yeah, we made contact,

and Jessie and Lucky are on their way down.

- What about Colton?

- Yeah, uh, well we gave him the message,

and he, um, he decided to keep going.

- It's not a fucking message. It's an order.

Everyone down, now.

Sean, there are things you need to know,

like about the chief's story.

- Sorry Kerrie.

We're just trying to do the right thing here.

We'll contact later. Over.

Okay. All right.

Two more pitches up to Colton.

You're up.

- Dammit!

Dammit.

Agh!

I knew he was gonna pull some like this,

and now he's, he's dragged Sean into it.

I, I knew I should have taken that offer at Alpenglow.

It's just the two of them headed up, right?

- Yeah. Lucky and Jessie should be done soon.

- Okay, great.

I have to talk to Colton, and I don't care what it takes.

I will get you every power source in this fucking place.

Just get it boosted.

- Piece of cake.

- Well good, 'cause the next one's all yours.

- Looks like a straight shot up to him.

Did you see Jessie or Lucky?

- No, um, they're probably way below us now.

- Okay.

All right. I need about five minutes.

- Yeah, take your time.

- There we go.

Jessie, do you copy?

Lucky do you copy?

Does anybody copy?

Can anybody hear me?

Do you copy? Over.

- Okay, Kristen, I made it. I'm off belay.

- Copy. Belay off. - Just, uh, gimme a minute.

- Okay. No problem.

- Sorry Kristen.

- Hey Sean. What happened? Are you all right?

- Yeah. Yeah, I'm all right.

Sorry, Kristen,

- What are you doing? Why did you drop the rope?

- I can't let you risk it, all right?

This one's on me. I'm sorry.

- Sean, don't do...

- Ready when you are.

- All right, take this pitch. You top out.

- I'm here and anchored.

Off belay. Over. - Copy that. Belay off.

- Yeah, it's not that bad of a pitch.

Give me a minute.

- Oh, I don't want to tell the chief's men

they have to get another body.

- You know, when I separated out all those voices,

I could hear all the climbers.

- Yeah?

- Except one.

- Colton.

- Colton? Are you serious?

What does that mean?

- I don't know, but just based on the chief's story,

it could be that he's,

like, possessed or something.

- I don't...

I mean, I know it sounds ridiculous, right?

I can't explain this any other way.

Is there, is there any way to know for sure?

- Yeah. Yeah. - Yeah?

- No, yeah, I think so.

Right, because it should attach to their voices,

so if I can just get each of them to talk individually,

then I can probably figure it out.

- Well, here we are.

- Yeah, we sure made it all right.

Hope you're happy.

- Sorry, but I had to get here. I didn't have a choice.

- I know. I know.

- So it's you.

I was wondering who it was.

- What? I don't know what you're talking about, Colton.

I'm not anything. - I know they sent another,

So don't even act like they didn't.

- They? Who, what are you talking about the tribe?

- The tribe? Come on.

Don't act like you're not working for the agency.

Wait a minute, you're telling me

that you don't know what's going on up here?

- No, I don't. But I'm gonna find out, just like you.

- If it's not you, then who is it?

- Kristen, Kristen, what are you doing here?

You need to try harder to leave me behind.

- No, you should not have come up here.

- Kristen, welcome to the party.

- Is that it? - I think so.

- Maybe it's you.

- Well, they wouldn't make the same mistake twice.

- Kristen, what is he talking about?

- I'm sorry.

I wanted to tell you, but I couldn't.

There are rules.

- Yeah. Sean, she wanted to tell you, but there are rules.

- Are you in on this?

- Base camp to Sean. Do you copy?

Does anyone copy?

- Go for Colton.

- Colton, oh God. Good, good to hear you.

Um, Kerrie wants everyone down. Do you copy?

- Yeah, that's not gonna happen. We're already at the top.

- Colton, get your ass down here now!

- You guys should listen to her, huh?

- A little late for that, don't you think?

- Guys, the chief was right.

There is something up there, something we can't explain.

I can tell who has it.

Each of you just repeat "I am here"

into the radio, separately, Please

- Go ahead, Colton.

- Ladies first. - Oh, for fuck's sake.

I'll do it. I am here.

- I am here.

- I am here.

Happy? We'll find out who's who.

- Guys, I know who it is.

- Well, as stimulating as...

- Lucky, what are you doing? Lucky?

- Sean, it's him!

- Lucky, where, where did you come from?

What happened to Jessie?

- Lucky, what are you doing? No!

- Kristen! No, no!

No!

Oh!

Kristen, no! What are you doing?

Stop.

Kristen, fight. Fight.

- You'll never make it, son. Just give up.

You'll never be good enough. You will fail.

You think you can beat me?

You can't, because I'll always be here.

Just give up. Just give up right now.

You'll never be good enough.

Remember the quiet.

- Kristen.

- What happened?

Did you do it?

- Yeah.

- I am sorry. I tried.

- I know. It's okay.

Come here.

Let's get out of here.

- Oh my God. Oh my God, did I?

Colton?

I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry.

- It's not over.

- What's not? What's not over, Colton?

- They'll never stop.

- No, Colton. No. - Come on. We gotta go.

- All right. Come on, let's go.

- We, we can't. We don't have any gear or ropes.

How are we gonna get down?

- He left my bag.

And like someone said to me recently,

the only way to fall is with a chute.

- But there's two of us.

- We can tie into each other.

No. Hey, I'm serious. We'll tie into each other.

It'll work. - No.

That's not gonna work.

- Well there's only one way to find out,

or else that skeleton's gonna have company.

Ready?

Jump.

See? I told you.

- Yes?

Yes, I know.

We're going over the video now

and a trained team is being put together.

Yes.

- Hello?

Mom? Dad?

- Hey!

- So glad to see you.

Let me look at you here. Oh.

- It's fine, it's fine. I'm okay.

- You okay? - Yeah. Yeah.

I'm good. I'm good. - All right. All right.

- Oh my God.

Told you. Told I'd make it back.

- Yeah, you did. Yeah, you did.

Hey, I'm sorry about your friends.

I'm just, I'm just glad you're home.

- Yeah, it was a tough climb, and, um, some,

some things happened.

Dad, I found out about Grandpa. He made it.

He did good. He saved a lot of lives.

- He made it? - Yeah.

- I always hoped, you know, that he did it for a reason,

that it meant something.

- Definitely meant something.

- You've just missed your mother.

She went to the store. She'll be back in a minute.

Hey, come on. Come on. - Yeah. Yeah.

- Sit down. I want to hear all about the climb.

- Maybe wait until she's back.

It's a long story, and it's kind of crazy.

- Okay.

- I love myself.

I am Colton Stevens. I love my life.

I love myself.

I am Colton Stevens. I love my life.

I love myself. I am Colton Stevens.

Apple 56 Charlie, take one.

- And action.

- Jesus Christ, Gabe.

- Oh my. Gabe? - Not Gabe.

No, no, no. Okay, my bad.

- Are we rolling? - We're rolling.

We're still rolling. - My bad.

- Rolling!

- It's too real. Too real.

- All right. - Too real.