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Subtitles by explosiveskull

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Okay, here we go.

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Yeah. No, I'll be good
with this.

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Okay. I'm ready.

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<i>Alright. Thank you.</i>

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<i>To those who are
enthralled by mountains,</i>

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<i>their wonder is
beyond all dispute.</i>

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<i>To those who are not,</i>

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<i>their allure is
a kind of madness.</i>

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<i>What is this strange force
that draws us upwards?</i>

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<i>This siren song
of the summit?</i>

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<i>Only three centuries ago,</i>

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<i>setting out to climb
a mountain</i>

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<i>would have been considered
an act of lunacy.</i>

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<i>The idea scarcely existed</i>

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<i>that wild landscapes
might hold</i>

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<i>any sort of attraction.</i>

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<i>Mountains were places
of peril, not beauty.</i>

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<i>An upper world to be shunned,</i>

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<i>not sought out.</i>

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<i>How then have mountains now</i>

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<i>come to hold us spellbound,</i>

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<i>drawing us into
their dominion...</i>

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<i>often at the cost
of our lives?</i>

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<i>Because the mountains we climb</i>

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<i>are not made only
of rock and ice,</i>

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<i>but also of dreams</i>

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<i>and desire.</i>

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<i>The mountains we climb</i>

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<i>are mountains of the mind.</i>

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<i>To humans, high mountains</i>

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<i>were once considered the home</i>

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<i>of either the holy</i>

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<i>or the hostile.</i>

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<i>There was nothing in between.</i>

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<i>A realm to be
revered from below,</i>

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<i>but never entered.</i>

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<i>Go around mountains
if necessary,</i>

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<i>along their flanks,
but not up them...</i>

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<i>for only gods and monsters</i>

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<i>dwelled at height.</i>

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<i>The upper world was
a sacred landscape</i>

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<i>to which we directed
our devotion</i>

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<i>and our rituals of awe...</i>

45
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<i>...but always
from a safe distance.</i>

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<i>Daily life brought ample
hardship and danger.</i>

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<i>There was no need
to seek out more.</i>

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<i>Gradually, though,</i>

49
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<i>the dragons and divinities
were put to flight,</i>

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<i>and our feelings
toward mountains</i>

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<i>underwent an astonishing change.</i>

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<i>Fascination replaced
trepidation.</i>

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<i>Adventure replaced reverence.</i>

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<i>As cities grew</i>

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<i>and we insulated ourselves
away from nature,</i>

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<i>the mountains called us back.</i>

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<i>The magic of mountains
strengthened:</i>

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<i>their fierce beauty,</i>

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<i>their power to enchant,</i>

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<i>their challenge.</i>

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<i>We went in search of places
that were intimidating</i>

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<i>and uncontrollable,</i>

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<i>that inspired in us
the heady blend</i>

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<i>of pleasure and terror,</i>

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<i>which we came to call
the sublime.</i>

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<i>This search for the sublime</i>

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<i>drew us outwards and upwards.</i>

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<i>The great peaks
of the world</i>

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<i>began to exert a force
upon the imagination.</i>

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<i>A siren song</i>

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<i>that was easy to hear,</i>

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<i>hard to resist...</i>

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<i>and sometimes</i>

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<i>fatal.</i>

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<i>But legends of
death in high places</i>

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<i>spread the spell
of the mountains</i>

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<i>wider still.</i>

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<i>Slowly,</i>

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<i>the blank spaces on the maps
were filled in.</i>

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<i>The imperial aim was to grid,</i>

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<i>girdle, and name
the upper world.</i>

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<i>To bring it and its peoples</i>

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<i>within the realm
of the known</i>

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<i>and the owned.</i>

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<i>To replace mystery
with mastery.</i>

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<i>And the greatest
mystery of them all?</i>

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<i>Everest.</i>

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<i>And so began the campaign
to vanquish it.</i>

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<i>Everest was placed
under siege.</i>

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<i>Until, at last, it succumbed.</i>

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<i>This was the moment</i>

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<i>that mountaineering
as adventure</i>

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<i>entered the popular imagination.</i>

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<i>Our fascination
became an obsession.</i>

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<i>Now our need for mountains
runs deep and wide,</i>

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<i>for most of us exist
for most of the time</i>

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<i>in environments
that are humanly arranged</i>

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<i>and controlled.</i>

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<i>But mountains are wild
and ungovernable.</i>

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<i>This is the source
of their danger</i>

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<i>and also the source
of their allure.</i>

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<i>And so, a longing
for the unknown</i>

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<i>beckons us onwards.</i>

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<i>Like Echo's Cave,</i>

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<i>the unknown will answer back</i>

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<i>with whatever
you call into it.</i>

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<i>To travel to the high peaks
is to cross a threshold</i>

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<i>into a space where
time warps</i>

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<i>and bends,</i>

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<i>and sensations are
thrillingly amplified.</i>

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<i>Stone and ice, though,</i>

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<i>are far less gentle
to the hand's touch</i>

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<i>than to the mind's eye.</i>

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<i>The mountains of the Earth</i>

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<i>have often turned out
to be more resistant,</i>

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<i>more fatally real,</i>

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<i>than the mountains
we imagine.</i>

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<i>These are matters</i>

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<i>of hard sharp rock</i>

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<i>and driving ice...</i>

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<i>...of bone-deep cold...</i>

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Less than ideal.

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Ahh! Ahh!

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00:29:13,682 --> 00:29:15,882
<i>...injury and nausea...</i>

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<i>...fizzing fear...</i>

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Ahh!

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<i>...of stomach-turning vertigo...</i>

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Oh God, take me home.

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<i>But</i>

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<i>they are also places
of unspeakable beauty.</i>

131
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<i>And so the peaks
summon us still,</i>

132
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<i>sharpening our sense
of being,</i>

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<i>setting life on a knife-edge.</i>

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<i>For danger can hold
terrible joys...</i>

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00:31:52,441 --> 00:31:54,574
<i>...dreadful splendors.</i>

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<i>Today, mountains are considered</i>

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<i>among nature's
most exquisite features.</i>

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<i>No longer do their
chaotic forms</i>

139
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<i>upset the spirit level
of our minds.</i>

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<i>Now, we migrate to them</i>

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<i>in our millions each year,</i>

142
00:33:14,589 --> 00:33:17,089
<i>pursuing our strange
pilgrimages.</i>

143
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<i>A very modern mountain
worship has taken hold...</i>

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<i>...a worship that requires</i>

145
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<i>the modification
of the mountains...</i>

146
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<i>...and the management
of their risks.</i>

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<i>And in doing so,</i>

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<i>we have come to forget
something of their power.</i>

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<i>What odd devotions
we undertake!</i>

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<i>What curious
performances we put on,</i>

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<i>with the mountains
as our theatre!</i>

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<i>To certain people,</i>

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<i>the call to adventure</i>

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<i>is irresistible.</i>

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<i>As everyday life has become</i>

156
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<i>safer and more comfortable
for some,</i>

157
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<i>we have begun to seek
out danger elsewhere.</i>

158
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<i>We court danger.</i>

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<i>We pay for it.</i>

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<i>Risk has become
its own reward.</i>

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<i>At height,</i>

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<i>you can be taken
right to the brink...</i>

163
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<i>...for you never feel
so alive,</i>

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<i>knowing that,
at any minute,</i>

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<i>you could die.</i>

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<i>So up to the mountains we go,</i>

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<i>in headlong pursuit
of peril...</i>

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<i>...or a testing ground</i>

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<i>on which the self
can best be illuminated.</i>

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<i>Today's adventurers
are driven by the lust</i>

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<i>to reach somewhere
no one has reached before...</i>

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<i>...and to do something
no one has done before.</i>

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<i>Our wish to be first</i>

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<i>induces in us
forms of insanity...</i>

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<i>...and forms of grace.</i>

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<i>Adventurers sometimes
liken fear to a rat.</i>

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<i>When you take risks,
you feed the rat with fear.</i>

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<i>But each time
you feed it that fear,</i>

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<i>it grows fatter.</i>

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<i>So then you must
feed it more fear</i>

181
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<i>to sate it,</i>

182
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<i>and yet more again,
and then still more...</i>

183
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<i>until a madness bites.</i>

184
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<i>How has it come to this?</i>

185
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<i>The mountains as a stage set</i>

186
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<i>for a pumped-up poker game</i>

187
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<i>of high stakes
and high returns,</i>

188
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<i>all driven by big brands
and online views.</i>

189
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<i>Many who travel to mountain tops</i>

190
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<i>are half in love
with themselves</i>

191
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<i>and half in love
with oblivion.</i>

192
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<i>Today's mountain mania</i>

193
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<i>culminates on Everest,</i>

194
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<i>where the wish
to test one's limits</i>

195
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<i>or to battle one's demons</i>

196
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<i>draws thousands of people
to the peak each year.</i>

197
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<i>Attempting Everest</i>

198
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<i>offers a way
for the ordinary person</i>

199
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<i>to be briefly extraordinary.</i>

200
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<i>But the nature
of the challenge</i>

201
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<i>has, in many ways, changed.</i>

202
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<i>This isn't climbing anymore.</i>

203
00:53:18,258 --> 00:53:20,892
<i>It's queuing.</i>

204
00:53:20,894 --> 00:53:23,127
<i>This isn't exploration.</i>

205
00:53:23,129 --> 00:53:26,165
<i>It's crowd-control.</i>

206
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<i>This is the modern industry
of ascent,</i>

207
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<i>in which the risks
are often taken most</i>

208
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<i>by those who have least.</i>

209
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<i>But mountains
exceed our command.</i>

210
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<i>They slip our grip.</i>

211
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<i>And there is no glory</i>

212
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<i>for those who are left behind.</i>

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<i>Mountains are so much
more than a challenge</i>

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<i>or an adversary
to be overcome...</i>

215
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<i>...for mountains humble
the human instant</i>

216
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<i>and reveal our insignificance.</i>

217
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<i>They live in deep time</i>

218
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<i>in a way that we do not.</i>

219
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<i>Behind and beyond
the mountains</i>

220
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<i>stretch aeons too vast
for us to comprehend.</i>

221
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<i>They were here long before
we were even dreamed of.</i>

222
00:56:09,930 --> 00:56:12,930
<i>They watched us arrive.</i>

223
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<i>They will watch us leave.</i>

224
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<i>Born of fire,</i>

225
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<i>born of force,</i>

226
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<i>mountains move.</i>

227
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<i>Over epochs,
they rise and fall.</i>

228
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<i>This is the symphony
of the earth...</i>

229
01:00:00,426 --> 01:00:03,328
<i>...a rhythm of uplift
and erosion</i>

230
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<i>that makes
not waves of water,</i>

231
01:00:07,234 --> 01:00:09,167
<i>but waves of stone.</i>

232
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<i>And from these waves of stone
flows life.</i>

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<i>Being in the mountains
can ignite our astonishment</i>

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<i>at the simplest transactions
of the living world.</i>

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01:06:06,459 --> 01:06:08,660
<i>Anyone who has been
among mountains</i>

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01:06:08,662 --> 01:06:11,029
<i>knows their indifference,</i>

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01:06:11,031 --> 01:06:13,997
<i>has felt a brief,
blazing sense</i>

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<i>of the world's
disinterest in us.</i>

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01:06:19,939 --> 01:06:22,976
<i>In small measures,
this feeling exhilarates.</i>

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01:06:26,979 --> 01:06:30,417
<i>In full form, it annihilates.</i>

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01:07:32,144 --> 01:07:36,013
<i>Coming back to Earth
from the high peaks,</i>

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01:07:36,015 --> 01:07:38,850
<i>you can feel
like a stranger,</i>

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01:07:38,852 --> 01:07:42,854
<i>bearing experiences
that are beyond expression</i>

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01:07:42,856 --> 01:07:45,290
<i>and beyond price.</i>

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01:07:45,292 --> 01:07:48,560
<i>Time has flown over you,</i>

246
01:07:48,562 --> 01:07:52,596
<i>but left its shadow behind.</i>

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01:08:19,124 --> 01:08:21,759
<i>Mountains don't
seek our love</i>

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01:08:21,761 --> 01:08:23,928
<i>or seek our deaths.</i>

249
01:08:27,132 --> 01:08:29,099
<i>They want nothing from us.</i>

250
01:08:37,243 --> 01:08:40,745
<i>And yet, they shift the way
we see ourselves.</i>

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01:08:43,115 --> 01:08:45,015
<i>They weather our spirits...</i>

252
01:08:48,622 --> 01:08:50,321
<i>...challenge our arrogance...</i>

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01:08:53,392 --> 01:08:55,827
<i>...restore our wonder.</i>

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01:09:04,671 --> 01:09:06,737
<i>More than ever,</i>

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01:09:06,739 --> 01:09:09,040
<i>we need their wildness.</i>

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