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Good evening,
ladies and gentlemen.
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Ithought I would
cut this rope,
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since it seems to be
obstructing my path.
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I can't seem to
find my partner.
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He was here
a moment ago,
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then let out a cry
and disappeared.
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(CLATTERING)
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(LOUD THUDDING)
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My. "W-
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I seem to have
made a faux pas.
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My friend was on the
other end ofthat rope.
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Rotten luck.
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He was also
my business partner.
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But the show must go on.
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Tonight, we are presenting
a chilly little tale entitled,
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"The Crystal Trench."
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It follows at a
respectful distance.
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MARK: Ihad come from London that
Wednesday on my first visit to the Alps.
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Strange, after so many years,
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Ishould remember
it was a Wednesday.
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A Wednesday
in September, 1907.
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Icame up the valley by train.
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Dark canopies of clouds
obscured the Schwarzhorn,
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but I could make out the broad,
icy spread of the nearby glacier.
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It had a sort ofmajesty.
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At least, Ithoughtso then.
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With its solid depths of ice and
its silent, relentless flow
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as it crept along
its inevitable course.
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Now, 40 years later, I know the
glacier for something else.
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Something I had better
never have known.
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I was to meet my guides, the
Blauers, at the Bowed House Hotel.
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I had climbed easier peaks
in Austria with the Blauers,
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preparing myself
for Sch warzhorn.
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Oh, hello.
How are you?
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Welcome, welcome,
welcome. Here.
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Please, sign there.
Everything's arranged.
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How's your mother?
Fine. Fine.
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MARK: Ihad scarcely
entered the lobby,
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when I discovered both Frederic and
Hans Blauer engaged, as usual,
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in an argument
with another man.
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Hans! Frederic!
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(MARK CHUCKLING)
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You arejust in time
to settle an argument.
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It seems to me
you were arguing
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when I left you
last year in Torino.
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Neverwith each other,
Mr. Cavendidge.
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Only with those who
insult our intelligence.
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I don't care!
I saw what I saw!
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Impossible!
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They were right
at the top.
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(CLEARS THROAT)
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MAN: Maybe you can
still see them.
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What should I
look for?
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MAN: Two men on top
ofthe Schwarzhorn.
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Now? At 4:00
in the afternoon?
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Iwas looking through
this, you understand?
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And suddenlythe clouds
seemed to draw apart,
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and there it was,
the Schwarzhorn.
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Then two men
climbed into my view.
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They were near the
very top ofthe peak.
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Which direction
did they come from?
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The south.
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You see?
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That's not possible.
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Ifthey came
bythe south,
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they would have had to have
come bythe LernerAscent.
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At least I know which is
north and which is south!
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Even a child
knows that!
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One ofthe climbers, the one in
front, was moving very slowly.
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He seemed weak.
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The second man
was stronger,
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I saw him lift the
rope between them.
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It was slack. He
shookthe snow off it...
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The rope was slack?
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And then?
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MAN: Then the clouds
closed in again,
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and I could not
see them anymore.
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Ifwhat you say is true,
it could be very serious.
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That's what we have been telling him, Mr.
Cavendidge.
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He can'tjust go around
inventing stories like that.
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I saw it, ltell you!
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It'sjust possible, of course,
just, you understand.
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On a fine day, a party
coming bythat route
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might find themselves
on top ofthe Schwarzhorn
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at 4:00 in the afternoon.
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But on a day like this,
no man in his senses
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would be on any ridge
ofthat mountain,
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I can only hope
you're mistaken.
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Come and help me unpack. Good!
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I'll show you some boots
I bought in London.
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CONCIERGE: Mr. Cavendidge?
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I have bad news.
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There has been
an accident.
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On the Schwarzhorn?
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How could you know?
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Ranks hasjust sent word
from the Vern hut.
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Ranks? What has he
got to do with it?
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He was with him.
It is terrible!
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They were so young...
Boys!
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Countrymen of yours,
that's why I have come to you.
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Now, ifyou'll tell me
what's happened?
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They arrived here
last week.
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They were not
experienced climbers,
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but they had no respect for our
guides or for our mountains.
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They would not listen
to what anybody said.
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If only Herr Ranks had
not come from Austria.
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Do you know him?
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No, but the Blauers
told me about him.
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They say he'll
climb with anyone.
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As soon as he met
these two young men,
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he suggested the
LernerAscent to them.
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(EXCLAIMING IN GERMAN)
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They went up
to the Vern hut,
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slept the night there,
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and started up
the Schwarzhorn
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with provisions
forthree days.
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That was four days ago!
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And Ranks has
come back alone?
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CONCIERGE: No. One ofthe
boys is with him.
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George Liston.
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They're moving him down to
the clinic at Brig, tonight,
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hoping to save his hands and feet
which are badly frostbitten.
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No, it is the other boy,
Michael Ballister.
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He died when he almost
reached the top.
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Ranks says that
he and Liston
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were too exhausted
to bring him down,
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so they left him up there.
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We'll have to go
and fetch him
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as soon as
the weather clears.
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Is that what you wanted
to ask me about?
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No, there is
something else.
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His wife...
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Ballister's wife
is here in the hotel.
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Someone must tell her.
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You expect me to?
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CONCIERGE: Who else is there?
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But why me?
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Like you, she's English.
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And it is better
if she hears it
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from one of her
own countrymen.
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They've only been
married six months.
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All day long she has
been trying to hide
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that she was
anxious about him.
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Where is she now?
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Inthe dining room.
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(CLEARING THROAT)
We'd bettertell her now.
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(WALTZ PLAYING)
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Mrs. Ballister,
I do not believe
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you have met
Mr. Cavendidge.
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He's just come
today from London.
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STELLA: Good evening.
Good evening.
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Ifyou'll excuse me.
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May l'_>
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Oh, of course,
please do.
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It's so good to hear
English spoken again.
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I never quite get used
to all these accents.
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This is one of
my favorite tunes.
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Do you dance,
Mr. Cavendidge?
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Well, l...
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Funny, in London,
it would seem
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quite improper
for me to ask you.
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But here it seems
all right, doesn't it?
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I imagine you're a rather
courageous person.
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Oh, why do you say that?
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I'm hoping... No,
praying that you are.
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What do you mean?
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Mrs. Ballister,
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I have been nominated a committee
of one to tell you something,
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which is something, I'm afraid,
no matter how gently I try,
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can only...
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Ordinarily, they tell people
to sit down at atime likethis.
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I think you're a woman who
might prefer to be standing.
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I don't know what you're
trying to tell me,
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but whatever it is,
please say it.
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Mrs. Ballister,
your husband is dead.
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His body is up
on the Schwarzhorn.
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STELLA: It's not true.
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It can't be true!
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How did it happen?
Did he fall?
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MARK: Apparently he died of
exhaustion and exposure.
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STELLA: Isn't there a chance
that... That he's still alive?
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MARK: No.
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STELLA: We'd hardly begun.
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(CRYING)
Michael and l, we...
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We'd hardly begun.
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MARK: I'll take a
party up in the morning
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and try and bring him down.
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But he said he was only
going to the mountain.
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He promised me
he'd be all right.
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He said I wasn't
to worry.
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MARK: Mrs. Ballister,
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the Schwarzhorn is one ofthe most
dangerous ascents in the world.
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Many experienced climbers have
lost their lives up there.
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You will find him,
won't you?
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You will bring him
back to me?
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I'll do my best.
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Oh, please.
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I don't know
ifl can bear it,
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not to look at him
once more,
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not to see him,
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to touch him again.
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(WIND HOWLING)
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MARK: We crossed the mountain
by the eastern aréte,
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descending
on the south side...
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Found Ballister.
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It was then,
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the grimmest episode of
that terrible day occurred.
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With infinite care,
we began to untie
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the frozen ropes
which bound him.
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A gust ofsnow blinded us for
a moment, throwing us back
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and in thatsecond, the
body slipped away from us.
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We watched hopelessly,
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as it gathered speed and
disappeared into a crevasse.
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He's fallen
into the glacier.
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MARK: Icould notshake off the feeling
that somehow Ihad betrayed a trust.
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Ihad discovered that
she was an only child
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and both her parents
were dead.
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She seemed so
friendless, so alone.
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(THANKING IN GERMAN)
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Thank you.
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Could I have
my bill too, please.
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Well, there's no need foryou to
leave just because I'm leaving.
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It's all right. I'm quite
able to take care of myself.
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I really don't want
to stay on here.
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When must you
be in London?
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Not for a couple
of weeks.
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Could you come
to Brig with me?
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Brig?
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Yes, George Liston's
in the clinicthere.
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Iwant to talkto him
and that man, Herr Ranks.
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And since you know about mountains
and climbing and things,
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I... I thought perhaps
you could come with me.
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Iwant to find out if
he's telling the truth.
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The truth?
About the accident?
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But why shouldn't he?
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Michael was strong. He'd never
have just stopped breathing.
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Something else
must have happened.
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I've got to find out.
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Will you come?
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Yes. I'll come.
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Thank you, Mr. Cavendidge.
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MARK: In thatsecond Iknew I
wanted to hear her call me Mark.
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Not Mr. Cavendidge, but Mark.
"Mark, my dear."
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"Mark, my darling."
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In thatsecond I knew
Ihad begun to love her.
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Hello, Herr Ranks.
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And this is Mrs. Ballister.
I'm a friend of hers.
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I'm sorry
about your husband.
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And I'm sorry
that I wasn't there
250
00:13:36,099 --> 00:13:37,498
the day you came
to the hotel
251
00:13:37,567 --> 00:13:39,228
and persuaded him
to go with you.
252
00:13:39,302 --> 00:13:41,896
Perhaps, ifl had been,
he wouldn't have gone.
253
00:13:43,006 --> 00:13:44,371
I know how you must feel.
254
00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:47,432
You blame me,
and you are right.
255
00:13:47,577 --> 00:13:49,011
Iam partly
responsible.
256
00:13:50,013 --> 00:13:52,004
What do you mean,
you are responsible?
257
00:13:53,282 --> 00:13:54,807
Well, we left
with too little food
258
00:13:54,884 --> 00:13:56,045
and that was bad
planning on my part.
259
00:13:57,253 --> 00:14:00,154
And I should have considered
the youth of my companions.
260
00:14:01,090 --> 00:14:04,390
You see, young men can
neverclimb so well.
261
00:14:06,095 --> 00:14:09,360
They don't have the lungs
for it orthe legs.
262
00:14:11,034 --> 00:14:13,162
No, I should never
have led them up.
263
00:14:14,237 --> 00:14:17,229
And I should have controlled
your husband more, madam.
264
00:14:18,741 --> 00:14:20,641
He was an
inexperienced climber.
265
00:14:21,077 --> 00:14:23,171
Itried to warn him
not to go so fast,
266
00:14:23,246 --> 00:14:25,681
but, he being young,
believed there was
267
00:14:25,748 --> 00:14:29,241
nothing he could not conquer,
not even the Schwarzhorn.
268
00:14:31,087 --> 00:14:32,851
Finally, he collapsed
altogether.
269
00:14:33,356 --> 00:14:34,687
His heart gave out.
270
00:14:36,759 --> 00:14:39,353
I swear to you we stayed
with him until he died.
271
00:14:40,496 --> 00:14:42,965
Although the wind was
quite dangerous for us
272
00:14:43,032 --> 00:14:44,522
and he was evidently dying.
273
00:14:45,435 --> 00:14:47,597
We stayed with him
until it was all over.
274
00:14:47,670 --> 00:14:49,934
Why do you make such a point
about staying with him?
275
00:14:50,006 --> 00:14:52,134
Because it was at a
great risk to us.
276
00:14:52,408 --> 00:14:53,842
Liston and myself.
277
00:14:53,910 --> 00:14:56,106
How can I be sure that
you did stay with him?
278
00:14:56,913 --> 00:14:58,312
How can I be sure
that you didn't go off
279
00:14:58,381 --> 00:15:00,213
and leave him to die
alone on the ridge?
280
00:15:00,283 --> 00:15:01,580
RANKS: Because
I have told you so
281
00:15:01,651 --> 00:15:02,982
and Liston will tell
you the same thing.
282
00:15:03,052 --> 00:15:05,282
We were with him
until he died.
283
00:15:05,354 --> 00:15:09,552
Up there in the cold and the
darkness, the utter loneliness...
284
00:15:10,793 --> 00:15:14,787
While I waited in the hotel with
a fire and the sound of music!
285
00:15:15,064 --> 00:15:18,159
You left him up there to die!
I know it!
286
00:15:19,068 --> 00:15:21,093
No! Please!
287
00:15:21,737 --> 00:15:24,001
(CRYING) No!
You did it! I know!
288
00:15:26,909 --> 00:15:28,104
I have said
it is my fault.
289
00:15:28,177 --> 00:15:30,009
What more does she
expect from me?
290
00:15:30,079 --> 00:15:31,069
(WHIMPERS)
291
00:15:32,148 --> 00:15:33,138
(DOOR CLOSING)
292
00:15:34,917 --> 00:15:36,476
Forgive me,
Mr. Cavendidge.
293
00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:39,318
I'm ashamed
ofthe way I behaved.
294
00:15:39,622 --> 00:15:40,953
It's all right.
295
00:15:42,558 --> 00:15:44,526
You've gone to so
much trouble for me.
296
00:15:45,495 --> 00:15:46,656
Thank you.
297
00:15:49,966 --> 00:15:52,162
Well, there's no point
in our staying here.
298
00:15:52,802 --> 00:15:54,236
What about
George Liston?
299
00:15:54,303 --> 00:15:55,498
Don't you want
to talkto him?
300
00:15:55,571 --> 00:15:57,335
What more can
he tell me except...
301
00:15:58,841 --> 00:16:01,936
No, that won't
bring Michael back.
302
00:16:03,179 --> 00:16:04,704
Nothing will
bring him back.
303
00:16:05,848 --> 00:16:07,111
Onlyl.
304
00:16:07,483 --> 00:16:08,473
You?
305
00:16:09,585 --> 00:16:13,488
Michael and l, we had what
very few people have,
306
00:16:14,557 --> 00:16:15,683
a perfect marriage.
307
00:16:18,327 --> 00:16:20,318
This may sound
fanciful to you,
308
00:16:20,396 --> 00:16:22,660
but somehow
it was ordained,
309
00:16:23,232 --> 00:16:25,132
predestined that
we should meet,
310
00:16:25,701 --> 00:16:27,328
that we should
love each other.
311
00:16:28,571 --> 00:16:31,097
Six months...
Such a little time,
312
00:16:32,708 --> 00:16:36,076
but we had more than most people
have in all their lifetime.
313
00:16:36,512 --> 00:16:37,638
Far more!
314
00:16:39,282 --> 00:16:41,512
And that's how I'll
bring Michael back.
315
00:16:41,584 --> 00:16:43,245
By remembering.
316
00:16:43,319 --> 00:16:45,720
By taking each moment
of our time together
317
00:16:45,788 --> 00:16:50,248
and expanding it into a month
or ayear of remembering.
318
00:16:51,794 --> 00:16:55,697
Do you understand? That way, if...
lfl live to be 80,
319
00:16:56,866 --> 00:16:59,631
I shall never live long enough
to recapture all of it.
320
00:17:05,708 --> 00:17:06,766
Stella...
321
00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:11,706
It's wrong to live
in the past.
322
00:17:12,215 --> 00:17:13,444
No matter
how hard we try,
323
00:17:13,516 --> 00:17:15,416
we can't make
time stand still
324
00:17:15,918 --> 00:17:18,785
any more than we can preserve
the roses of last summer.
325
00:17:19,589 --> 00:17:22,388
Oh, but you can.
Don't you see?
326
00:17:22,725 --> 00:17:23,886
You can!
327
00:17:24,827 --> 00:17:27,660
Particularly ifthe roses
are packed in ice.
328
00:17:29,031 --> 00:17:33,434
That waythey might last forever...
Mightn't they?
329
00:17:38,507 --> 00:17:40,566
MARK: Ireturned
to London with Stella.
330
00:17:40,876 --> 00:17:43,811
In the weeks that followed,
Isaw her whenever she'd Iet me.
331
00:17:44,447 --> 00:17:47,348
Once I took her to a concert,
twice to the theater.
332
00:17:48,117 --> 00:17:51,087
But it was not until Christmas
of that first year,
333
00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:53,352
I had any encouragement
from her.
334
00:17:54,023 --> 00:17:56,151
A note inviting me
to have tea with her
335
00:17:56,225 --> 00:17:58,125
in her house in Mayfair.
336
00:17:58,728 --> 00:18:00,594
On the strength
of this summons,
337
00:18:00,696 --> 00:18:02,664
Istopped that morning
at the jewelers
338
00:18:02,732 --> 00:18:05,463
and picked up the ring
I had ordered weeks before,
339
00:18:05,735 --> 00:18:07,533
a ring I knew
I would never place
340
00:18:07,603 --> 00:18:10,766
on the finger ofany woman
other than Stella.
341
00:18:12,675 --> 00:18:15,474
STELLA: Mark, it's
so good to see you.
342
00:18:18,914 --> 00:18:20,279
It's charming, Stella.
343
00:18:20,816 --> 00:18:22,341
But, of course,
it would be.
344
00:18:24,620 --> 00:18:25,712
Please.
345
00:18:27,189 --> 00:18:29,886
I'm so grateful that you
were able to be free today.
346
00:18:30,326 --> 00:18:32,260
This is a very
important day.
347
00:18:34,230 --> 00:18:35,994
I rather
thought so, too.
348
00:18:37,566 --> 00:18:40,001
Stella, I...
349
00:18:41,170 --> 00:18:45,073
I neverthought the time was
right before, but now...
350
00:18:48,477 --> 00:18:50,070
This says it better
than I can.
351
00:18:56,752 --> 00:19:00,848
Ifl could everwear
anyone's ring again, Mark,
352
00:19:02,558 --> 00:19:03,855
it would be yours.
353
00:19:05,961 --> 00:19:07,258
I'm sorry.
354
00:19:09,131 --> 00:19:11,225
Stella, please
think it over.
355
00:19:11,934 --> 00:19:13,493
I... I love you
356
00:19:13,569 --> 00:19:15,628
and you... You need
someone, someone...
357
00:19:15,705 --> 00:19:17,195
Mark, I can't.
358
00:19:18,541 --> 00:19:20,532
Where I'm taking you
this afternoon
359
00:19:20,609 --> 00:19:22,099
and what we're
going to do,
360
00:19:22,578 --> 00:19:24,876
will explain to you
why I can't.
361
00:19:41,831 --> 00:19:43,458
Well, Mrs. Ballister,
I shan't bore you
362
00:19:43,532 --> 00:19:45,660
with the science ofthese computations.
I imagine you simply...
363
00:19:45,735 --> 00:19:47,499
This doesn't bore me,
Professor,
364
00:19:47,570 --> 00:19:49,698
ljust want to be sure,
that is all.
365
00:19:50,272 --> 00:19:51,433
Mmm-hmm.
366
00:19:52,775 --> 00:19:54,402
The question here was,
367
00:19:54,477 --> 00:19:57,606
how far and how fast does
the glacier move each year?
368
00:19:59,315 --> 00:20:01,807
Well, the rate of flow
differs from year to year,
369
00:20:01,884 --> 00:20:03,943
depending on the balance
between the melting line
370
00:20:04,019 --> 00:20:07,785
and the accumulation area at
the upper end ofthe glacier.
371
00:20:07,857 --> 00:20:10,519
The melting line, of course,
is at the lower end.
372
00:20:10,593 --> 00:20:12,789
The ablation
orwastage area.
373
00:20:14,130 --> 00:20:17,532
Now, the flow ofthe
glacier actually starts
374
00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:22,595
within the ice itself at least
200 feet beneath the surface.
375
00:20:23,372 --> 00:20:27,366
There we get the basal slip
along the bed ofthe valley,
376
00:20:28,010 --> 00:20:29,671
caused mostly by gravity.
377
00:20:30,346 --> 00:20:34,442
But the ice also moves by crystals
pushing each other out of shape.
378
00:20:34,950 --> 00:20:36,611
Uh, we call this
plastic flow.
379
00:20:37,386 --> 00:20:40,583
By measuring the grains and the
direction ofthe ice crystals,
380
00:20:40,656 --> 00:20:43,250
by readings
on a micro altimeter,
381
00:20:43,826 --> 00:20:47,228
by checking our gravity meterto tell
us what the rock floor is like,
382
00:20:47,296 --> 00:20:50,561
we can calculate the rate
of flow rather precisely.
383
00:20:52,234 --> 00:20:57,400
On the 21st ofJuly, Mrs.
Ballister, in the year 1947,
384
00:20:58,541 --> 00:21:02,068
more likely in the morning, rather
than in the afternoon, I should say,
385
00:21:02,711 --> 00:21:06,113
your husband will come out ofthe
ice at the foot ofthe glacier.
386
00:21:08,551 --> 00:21:09,848
You see, Mark?
387
00:21:11,854 --> 00:21:13,754
I shall have Michael
back after all.
388
00:21:15,324 --> 00:21:18,225
MARK: Irealized then that
Stella had made her choice.
389
00:21:18,461 --> 00:21:22,398
That for the next 40 years she
intended to wait for Michael,
390
00:21:22,898 --> 00:21:25,868
just as I knew
Imust wait for Stella.
391
00:21:28,037 --> 00:21:32,235
The years slipped away, each one
faster than the one before.
392
00:21:33,108 --> 00:21:35,805
And now once more
I came up the valley.
393
00:21:36,445 --> 00:21:40,712
It was a cloudy day, just as it had
been that Wednesday 40 years ago.
394
00:21:41,250 --> 00:21:44,618
And again Isaw the broad,
icy spread of the glacier.
395
00:21:45,721 --> 00:21:47,621
I knew it now
for what it was.
396
00:21:48,524 --> 00:21:49,787
A tombstone.
397
00:21:50,693 --> 00:21:54,994
A vast crystal trench
which had enveloped us,
398
00:21:55,498 --> 00:21:57,091
molded and shaped us,
399
00:21:57,500 --> 00:21:59,992
Stella and me,
for this day...
400
00:22:01,036 --> 00:22:05,564
This 21st day ofJuly, 1947.
401
00:22:06,642 --> 00:22:08,508
MARK: I think you should
go back to the hotel.
402
00:22:08,577 --> 00:22:10,170
I'll come and get you
when it's time.
403
00:22:10,246 --> 00:22:12,340
STELLA: But the Professor said,
"More likely in the morning
404
00:22:12,414 --> 00:22:13,904
"than in the afternoon."
405
00:22:13,983 --> 00:22:15,417
Don't you remember,
Mark?
406
00:22:15,484 --> 00:22:16,883
MARK: Yes, I remember,
but all the same.
407
00:22:16,952 --> 00:22:18,545
STELLA:
He couldn't be wrong!
408
00:22:18,621 --> 00:22:20,111
MARK: No, of course
not, but still,
409
00:22:20,189 --> 00:22:22,021
I think you should
wait at the hotel.
410
00:22:22,091 --> 00:22:24,287
STELLA: No, Mark,
I want to stay.
411
00:22:28,964 --> 00:22:30,728
Mr. Cavendidge!
Look!
412
00:22:44,713 --> 00:22:47,808
MARK: The glacier had used
Michael Ballister tenderly.
413
00:22:48,884 --> 00:22:51,444
The years had taken
no toll ofhim.
414
00:22:53,255 --> 00:22:54,814
Seeing Stella with him,
415
00:22:55,791 --> 00:22:58,317
Icould see what the
years had done to her.
416
00:23:00,062 --> 00:23:01,962
Iknew what they
had done to me.
417
00:23:06,769 --> 00:23:09,261
Your locket was still
around his neck, Stella.
418
00:23:18,414 --> 00:23:19,848
MARK: The girl
who stared out at me
419
00:23:19,915 --> 00:23:22,384
was not Stella,
but someone strange.
420
00:23:22,918 --> 00:23:24,386
A pretty face,
but cheap.
421
00:23:26,655 --> 00:23:27,816
It's a...
422
00:23:28,390 --> 00:23:31,917
It's a miniature of you. Not
avery good likeness, but...
423
00:23:34,630 --> 00:23:35,927
Thank you, Mark,
424
00:23:36,632 --> 00:23:39,658
but he had no locket
with a portrait of me.
425
00:24:12,968 --> 00:24:16,404
So much for our version
of The Iceman Cometh.
426
00:24:16,939 --> 00:24:19,772
I shall return for a
final word in a moment.
427
00:24:20,442 --> 00:24:23,776
First, we have come to one
ofthose treacherous crevices
428
00:24:24,146 --> 00:24:26,547
that riddle the glacier
oftelevision.
429
00:24:30,019 --> 00:24:32,716
Ithink I should
begin my descent
430
00:24:33,288 --> 00:24:36,258
before I become the
source ofa legend
431
00:24:36,425 --> 00:24:38,894
about an abdominal snowman.
432
00:24:39,528 --> 00:24:42,498
Next week, I shall
once again return
433
00:24:42,564 --> 00:24:46,660
with another story, spliced
together by commercials.
434
00:24:46,969 --> 00:24:49,461
Until then, goodnight.
435
00:25:03,686 --> 00:25:04,881
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