0:00:02 > 0:00:03SINISTER TIBETAN MUSIC
0:01:31 > 0:01:32BELLS RING
0:01:39 > 0:01:41BELLS RING
0:01:41 > 0:01:43CHANTING
0:02:32 > 0:02:34Have you seen this veining, Foxy?
0:02:34 > 0:02:36Yes, it's a variety of Nardostachys jatamansi.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Hmm, an uncatalogued variety.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41- Dr Rollason, here is refreshment. - Oh, that's kind of you.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Are you too absorbed in what I have shown you?
0:02:44 > 0:02:46- Absorbed indeed, sir. - These are wild...
0:02:46 > 0:02:49I thought I knew every type of plant in these mountains, but these...
0:02:49 > 0:02:52- Thank you.- This plant we employ to cure sickness of the skin.
0:02:52 > 0:02:53And where does it grow?
0:02:53 > 0:02:58The monks go in parties to seek all these plants. They take many days.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01- Can they show me? - Now is not the time.
0:03:01 > 0:03:06- Soon the heavy snows will come and the valleys will be dangerous.- Oh.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10- Take what is there, take what you need.- But...these are your medicines.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12We have great stores of all these herbs.
0:03:12 > 0:03:16- You can really spare them? - Take what you wish now.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19- Then you will have every...spe...? - Species?- Species!
0:03:19 > 0:03:20HE CHUCKLES
0:03:20 > 0:03:23It's a long time since I have studied your language.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26The research foundation will be greatly in your debt, sir.
0:03:26 > 0:03:27Mr Fox...
0:03:27 > 0:03:32- You do not drink your tea?- Oh, I do. Well, I mean, I will...
0:03:33 > 0:03:36Erm, actually, I think I'll go and collect some jars to put these in.
0:03:36 > 0:03:41- It will be cold.- Well, really, I quite like it cold.
0:03:41 > 0:03:42Excuse me.
0:03:45 > 0:03:50Mr Fox doesn't enjoy tea made in our fashion.
0:03:50 > 0:03:55Maybe it still seems a bit greasy and unpleasant.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58- But you...?- I've grown to enjoy it.
0:03:58 > 0:04:02- And your wife? She also enjoys it? - Well...! She's working on it!
0:04:02 > 0:04:04She's a brave person to come here at all.
0:04:04 > 0:04:09She can't be comfortable in those poor quarters I have provided.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12This a hard, rough place, built for men.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14You've been very good to us, sir.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16Tell me, Dr Rollason.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19You are content with this land, its people and our customs?
0:04:20 > 0:04:24I think so. I know the Himalayas fairly well through climbing
0:04:24 > 0:04:25and now this work.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28- You're a climber. To the great peaks.- I was!
0:04:28 > 0:04:32But I had an accident, a stupid one but a bad one, so I gave it up.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35Now your wife comes with you to make sure of that?
0:04:35 > 0:04:38Helen comes with me as a colleague. We work together.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41And the other party who's coming... how long have you waited?
0:04:41 > 0:04:45- They're six days overdue. - Your wife, Dr Rollason...
0:04:45 > 0:04:47she knows they are coming?
0:04:47 > 0:04:49Coming to help you with your work...
0:04:49 > 0:04:52- Of course.- There will be little left for them to do now your work
0:04:52 > 0:04:53is almost completed.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56They'll want to see things for themselves, you permit?
0:04:56 > 0:05:01The other men...they are also sent by your foundation? Or are they not?
0:05:02 > 0:05:04They are not.
0:05:06 > 0:05:10- Do you know something about them? - I know they will be here tonight.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14I have sent guides to meet them. You look pleased.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16Of course. This is wonderful news, but I'd no idea they'd been seen.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19They have not been seen.
0:05:19 > 0:05:23But they will be here in a few hours.
0:05:23 > 0:05:24GONG
0:05:27 > 0:05:29GONG
0:05:29 > 0:05:31Helen.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34- Yes.- Specimen jars. The dear boy's just made us a present.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36The pick of his collection of dried plants.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38That's wonderful, Foxy. Does John know?
0:05:38 > 0:05:40He's over there now, waiting for the jars.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42- Why this sudden generosity from the Lhama?- Oh, I don't know.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45Perhaps he wants to get rid of us?
0:05:45 > 0:05:47If so, I'm ready. The sooner we get out of here,
0:05:47 > 0:05:51out of this infernal country with its cold and bad smells
0:05:51 > 0:05:54- and the superstition. - Take it easy, Foxy, take it easy.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57And the misery and the ignorance and this awful, awful cold.
0:05:57 > 0:05:58And the Tibetan tea...
0:06:01 > 0:06:04- Say, dear, are you busy? - Just a few diagrams to finish, why?
0:06:04 > 0:06:07Be an angel and take these over to John for me, will you?
0:06:07 > 0:06:11- Yes.- Then I can get on with the re-indexing of the new specimens.
0:06:11 > 0:06:17- Thanks awfully.- Foxy?- Mm?- I have another arm.- Of course! Sorry!
0:06:17 > 0:06:20I hope, sir, I can get a few more details about these?
0:06:20 > 0:06:22The approximate elevation at which they can be found...
0:06:22 > 0:06:24Dr Rollason...
0:06:24 > 0:06:27what do you know about those men who are coming?
0:06:27 > 0:06:28Know about them...?
0:06:29 > 0:06:32Not very much. I had a message from them suggesting we meet here.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34From their leader, a man called Friend?
0:06:34 > 0:06:36That's right. Tom Friend. You've heard of him?
0:06:36 > 0:06:39He passed this way before, some months ago.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41But he did not come to me as is customary.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44- Perhaps he didn't wish to impose on you, sir...?- Now he returns.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49What is this man searching for?
0:06:51 > 0:06:53Well...
0:06:53 > 0:06:55before I can say that, I must have a talk to him.
0:06:55 > 0:06:56You can't say now?!
0:06:59 > 0:07:02Dr Rollason...
0:07:02 > 0:07:04why do you want to help these people?
0:07:04 > 0:07:07I suppose for the pursuit of knowledge.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10Whose knowledge? Yours alone?
0:07:10 > 0:07:12- All human knowledge. - Human knowledge?
0:07:12 > 0:07:14HE CHUCKLES
0:07:14 > 0:07:15Is that reason enough?
0:07:17 > 0:07:19I'm afraid we're taking up your time, sir.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22- I don't know what's happened to Fox. - He is not coming, she is.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24Your wife.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26- She's approaching now. - How do you know this?
0:07:26 > 0:07:29- I've been hearing.- Is that all, sir?
0:07:29 > 0:07:31Here one develops the senses, all of them.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35There's time for an awareness of many things.
0:07:35 > 0:07:36Have you not found it so?
0:07:36 > 0:07:38DOOR KNOCKS
0:07:38 > 0:07:40HE SPEAKS IN NATIVE LANGUAGE
0:07:41 > 0:07:44- Come in. You're welcome, my dear lady.- Thank you.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47- Foxy told me to bring you these. - We've just been presented with some
0:07:47 > 0:07:50- very remarkable new specimens. - I know, Foxy told me.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56We have not met many times, Mrs Rollason.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59- No, no, we haven't.- I have talked much to your husband but not to you.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01I'm sorry, I've had quite a lot of work to do.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04I've been concerned for your comfort, but your husband reassures me...
0:08:04 > 0:08:07Of course. We've put you to a lot of inconvenience.
0:08:07 > 0:08:11You are welcome to remain under my protection while your husband is on his climbing expedition.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Climbing...?
0:08:13 > 0:08:14To the peaks.
0:08:15 > 0:08:19Now, unfortunately, my duties make this meeting also a short one.
0:08:20 > 0:08:21I must leave you now.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30What climbing expedition, John?
0:08:30 > 0:08:31That was deliberate.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34- I guess I haven't told you. - For heaven's sake, tell me now.
0:08:34 > 0:08:38Helen, I was going to explain to you before, but... they may not have turned up and...
0:08:38 > 0:08:41- They...? - The party led by a man named Friend, they should be here in a few hours.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44And you'd arranged to go with them?
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Provisionally.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49Helen, please. No, please. There was no point in talking about it before.
0:08:49 > 0:08:53- I haven't even told Foxy. - Nice to be bracketed together(!) - You know I didn't mean that.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56What about the Botanical Foundation? Have you kept them in the dark too?
0:08:56 > 0:08:58This is nothing to do with them.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01Only that they financed us here and they are waiting for our reports
0:09:01 > 0:09:03- and we're already behind schedule. - I know.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05Without being a bore about...about loyalty and all,
0:09:05 > 0:09:08don't you think we ought to get on with it?
0:09:08 > 0:09:09Helen, please...
0:09:09 > 0:09:12- Try and understand. - I am trying, but...
0:09:12 > 0:09:15at this time of the year, with fresh snow falling, to go peak climbing...
0:09:15 > 0:09:17They may not even arrive.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20Why did we come up here, John?
0:09:20 > 0:09:23- Why? - Right up here so far out of the way?
0:09:23 > 0:09:27It wasn't just to search for rare plants, was it? Was it, John?
0:09:29 > 0:09:31- No.- Somehow I knew.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33I kept remembering the things you wrote once.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35I said nothing, I didn't want to remind you.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37I'd hoped you forgotten...
0:09:38 > 0:09:42Your theories about the high valleys, about what might be there.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Listen, darling, you're getting upset...
0:09:44 > 0:09:47I'm going to be tiresome. I don't want you even to do this.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49- We don't even... - I can't bear it, John!
0:09:49 > 0:09:53I don't want you heading to danger, into the mountains to look for that creature!
0:10:21 > 0:10:23What's all this in aid of?
0:10:23 > 0:10:25Oh, it's just one of their regular ceremonies.
0:10:25 > 0:10:29Do you think they've chosen tonight on purpose?
0:10:29 > 0:10:31- Maybe.- Hey, come inside and shut the door.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34How do you expect me to keep anything warm with one of the walls out?
0:10:34 > 0:10:38- How's it coming? - I'm making enough for an extra four. - There may be even more of them.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40Hey, you're not going to ask me to feed the porters too, are you?
0:10:40 > 0:10:42Be an awful waste of food if they don't turn up.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44You know something, Foxy?
0:10:44 > 0:10:47Nothing would give me more pleasure than to have to waste it.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49CLAMOUR OUTSIDE
0:10:53 > 0:10:55They're here...
0:10:58 > 0:10:59Let me know how many.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05Er, you the head man here? You speak English?
0:11:05 > 0:11:07HE REPLIES IN OWN LANGUAGE
0:11:07 > 0:11:08Huh. Where's our guide? Hey, Kusang.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11He's bringing up the rear.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14You know Dr Rollason? Rollason?
0:11:14 > 0:11:15Tom Friend?
0:11:16 > 0:11:20- Oh, hi. Kusang.- I'm here! Mr...
0:11:20 > 0:11:23Get the stores under cover, take care of the ponies.
0:11:23 > 0:11:24HE LAUGHS
0:11:24 > 0:11:26- Is this in our honour?- I don't know.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28Hey, Jock, stick close - these guys will eat you!
0:11:28 > 0:11:31- Mr Friend, I'm very glad to meet you.- Dr Rollason, I presume!
0:11:31 > 0:11:33- It's a great honour. - We'd almost given you up.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36- We ran into a little bad weather. - We half expected you'd be gone.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39- This is Ed Shelley.- Mr Shelley.- Hi. - Jock, our photographer. - How do you do?
0:11:39 > 0:11:41- This is Peter Fox, my assistant.- Hello.
0:11:41 > 0:11:45- Hope you're all hungry, there's a banquet upstairs, beef stew. - Lead me to it, I could eat a yak!
0:11:45 > 0:11:47I'd better warn you about Ed's table manners.
0:11:47 > 0:11:51- This is my wife, Helen. Tom Friend. Mr Shelley. And...- Andrew, Andrew McNee.- Sorry.
0:11:51 > 0:11:55How do you do? We have four portions between three of you, so come on up, everybody.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58Taken at your word, ma'am! Come on, Jock, this is home cooking!
0:11:59 > 0:12:03- You didn't tell me about your wife. - Oh, we always work together.
0:12:03 > 0:12:04Hardly a trip for a woman.
0:12:04 > 0:12:08- She stays here with Fox - I've already fixed that.- Well, fine.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10- If I come...- If you come...?
0:12:10 > 0:12:13Dr Rollason, this is the expedition that's not going to fail.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16We're going to find that creature they call the yeti.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19Oh, yes...
0:12:19 > 0:12:21Can we stable under there under your living quarters?
0:12:21 > 0:12:23That's what it was built for. Come on.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26Kusang... TOM SPEAKS THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE
0:12:26 > 0:12:27KUSANG SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE
0:12:32 > 0:12:34We covered a lot of miles today. How many, Tom?
0:12:34 > 0:12:38- Oh, about ten.- Ten?! My feet say about 100.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41Of all the rockiest tracks in this stinking country!
0:12:41 > 0:12:44Thank you. Shelley objects to the primitive. Move over.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46Primitive...?!
0:12:46 > 0:12:48I don't know what's worst about it -
0:12:48 > 0:12:50the stink of everything or the ignorant natives
0:12:50 > 0:12:53or the filthy food they eat or what. You tell me.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55I find this country rather attractive.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57- Attractive?!- Oh, come on, Ed, knock it off, will you?
0:12:57 > 0:12:59Even what we're going to look for is abominable.
0:12:59 > 0:13:04- That's what they call it, isn't it - the abominable snowman? - It doesn't exist.- Helen...
0:13:04 > 0:13:07You don't subscribe to your husband's views, Mrs Rollason?
0:13:07 > 0:13:09- No.- And about what this creature might be?- No, I don't.
0:13:09 > 0:13:13- Neither do I.- Oh, sceptics right in camp, Doctor.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16When the whole evidence of these theories is based on a few footprints in the snow...
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Have you ever seen these footprints, Mr Fox?
0:13:18 > 0:13:20I have not.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22I have.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27- Where?- On the Rakaposhi Glacier.
0:13:27 > 0:13:31With a climbing party, two years ago.
0:13:31 > 0:13:35I found a line of fresh footprints like human ones.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39Only bigger and far broader.
0:13:39 > 0:13:41You didn't see what made them?
0:13:41 > 0:13:43I followed them for a mile or so, and then they...
0:13:43 > 0:13:46they finished on a bare rock face.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49It was just long enough to get a sense of...
0:13:49 > 0:13:53- of what I might be tracking.- You're an impressionable man, Mr McNee.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56Well, this is the sort of impression you want to forget.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Also, there have been photographs, Mrs Rollason.
0:13:58 > 0:14:011951 Shipton expedition took pictures of similar footprints.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04- They were published in the Times. - Could have been made by a bear.
0:14:04 > 0:14:09- But they weren't.- Look, in your message, you said something about having special evidence.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11- This seems to be a good time to produce it.- Hmm.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14This came into my possession a short time ago.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17Solid silver. Native craftsmanship.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19Maybe you can read what it says round there? Translate it.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25HE READS OUT IN NATIVE LANGUAGE
0:14:30 > 0:14:33The protection of the great...
0:14:33 > 0:14:35No...
0:14:35 > 0:14:37HE REPEATS WORDS IN NATIVE LANGUAGE
0:14:37 > 0:14:40..the powerful beings is besought by the Lhama of Rongbuk.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42- That's this monastery. - That's right.
0:14:42 > 0:14:46This was stolen from here some years ago by a German explorer.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49"The powerful beings" - that probably means local gods.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51Hmm, now watch...
0:14:51 > 0:14:54The ornamentation hides the join, but it finally does unscrew,
0:14:54 > 0:14:57and you see...
0:14:57 > 0:15:01- A tooth.- In the Middle Ages, it was the usual thing to preserve bits
0:15:01 > 0:15:04of tooth and bones from the bodies of saints.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06That's what that is, a reliquary, but, of course,
0:15:06 > 0:15:08you'd know more about that, Doctor.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10It's unbelievable.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12Look at the size of it.
0:15:12 > 0:15:16- Seems to be genuine.- It is. I had it sectioned and tested.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21It's like the canine tooth of an ape, say a gorilla.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23Yes, but it's about three times as big.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Let me see...
0:15:25 > 0:15:28Er...I'd read your views, Doctor, on the possible size
0:15:28 > 0:15:30and bone structure of these creatures.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33- That would fit, wouldn't it?- Yes, it would. But it's not a fossil.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35It's living ivory...
0:15:35 > 0:15:37GONG
0:15:39 > 0:15:40TIBETAN MUSIC
0:15:51 > 0:15:52Hey, what's this? A war dance?
0:15:52 > 0:15:55These people are Buddhists - they don't believe in war.
0:15:55 > 0:15:57Holy men doing a holy dance! Hey, this is good!
0:15:57 > 0:16:00- Jock, get a picture! - They don't allow it.
0:16:13 > 0:16:17- You sure they don't mean trouble? - You can take my word for it. - Yeah, well, I hope you're right.
0:16:17 > 0:16:21I have my responsibilities, I don't want to find one of my porters knifed while I'm away.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24Look, Friend, their religion forbids them to harm anyone or anything.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26OK, just so they know it. How about some more stew?
0:16:26 > 0:16:29Just a minute, did I hear right? You're not taking the porters with you?
0:16:29 > 0:16:32- Not beyond this point. - You're doing this climb alone?
0:16:32 > 0:16:35- Yes, just the five of us.- How mad. - You'd better tell us your plans.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38Well, so far, no expedition's gotten near this thing they call the yeti.
0:16:38 > 0:16:42- You know why?- Hmm.- Tramping up to the peaks with 50 or 60 porters behind them like an invading army.
0:16:42 > 0:16:45It's enough to scare off any living creature. We don't want that.
0:16:45 > 0:16:47So, there will be just the five of us.
0:16:47 > 0:16:48What will we live on - vitamin pills(?)
0:16:48 > 0:16:52- SHELLEY LAUGHS - Tell him, Tom.- We've been up here before, Ed and I, last summer.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54- Yes, I heard that. - Took 50 men loaded to the limit
0:16:54 > 0:16:58up the north valley. Salted away supplies and stores in places where they'd be safe from the snows -
0:16:58 > 0:17:01- rock caves and so on. All along the route.- And do you think
0:17:01 > 0:17:04these supplies will still be there with 50 men sharing the secret?
0:17:04 > 0:17:07- They don't.- We took turns, one marched them on while the other
0:17:07 > 0:17:10- hid the batch they'd just unloaded. - Single-handed.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12- It was murder, but we did it. - The north valley...
0:17:12 > 0:17:16It's the steepest, the crookedest and blocked by the worst ice falls you ever saw.
0:17:16 > 0:17:20- Like the mountains of the moon.- If I were a creature wanting to lurk away from man, that's where I'd lurk.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22John, this is completely irresponsible - without porters,
0:17:22 > 0:17:26- without guides!- Correction, ma'am. We are taking along one local guide.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28- Name of Kusang. You saw him down below.- One guide.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32And how did he qualify for this unique position?
0:17:32 > 0:17:34Because he's seen a yeti, ma'am.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38- He's seen one?- This is the time to do it, Doc - winter.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41The heavy snow forcing whatever's up there down valley for food, right?
0:17:41 > 0:17:43- Yes, but it...- It's going to be tough going, we know that.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45We can use an expert climber and a scientist.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48In a double capacity. We need you with us. What do you say, Doctor?
0:17:48 > 0:17:50Yes, John. What DO you say?
0:17:55 > 0:17:58- I'd like to show this to someone first.- Who's that?
0:17:58 > 0:18:00The person who seems to be its rightful owner, the Lhama.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02- Whatever you say.- Now.
0:18:04 > 0:18:06- Keep the food hot.- I'll come too.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19- How long does this go on? - Sometimes for several hours.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21Put that away, John.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26Yes, I know of it.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29It was taken from here many years ago.
0:18:30 > 0:18:34However you came by it, Mr Friend, I'm grateful...
0:18:34 > 0:18:37- you return it now. - I'm happy to do so, sir.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40You, er, you know it opens, then?
0:18:42 > 0:18:43The carved tooth.
0:18:45 > 0:18:46Carved?
0:18:46 > 0:18:50It was made, so I've heard, by a monk in the far distant time.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54It was meant to be a tooth of the god Manjusri, the all-powerful.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57- It was made? - Did you think it was a real tooth(?)
0:18:57 > 0:18:58We thought perhaps...
0:18:58 > 0:19:02You men of the West... you are driven by curiosity.
0:19:02 > 0:19:07You would risk your lives, in those wastes of ice and coldness
0:19:07 > 0:19:09to search for this...
0:19:11 > 0:19:12- ..animal.- He's known all the time.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15This animal you only imagine to exist.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17You also think it doesn't exist?
0:19:17 > 0:19:21Look, Rollason, you've made no contract, you're under no obligation
0:19:21 > 0:19:24to go with us up there tomorrow when we leave here. But we're going.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27And if it's humanly possible, we're going to find that creature.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32- I'll come.- Don't worry, he'll be all right.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34We'll look after him, he'll be just...
0:19:36 > 0:19:37On behalf of my party
0:19:37 > 0:19:40and myself, I'd like to thank you for your hospitality.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43Small return, Mr Friend...
0:19:43 > 0:19:45for this.
0:19:45 > 0:19:46Hmm.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50Dr Rollason...
0:19:50 > 0:19:51one moment, if you please?
0:19:53 > 0:19:56You are determined to go with these people?
0:19:56 > 0:19:58Yes.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00Then listen to what I have to say.
0:20:00 > 0:20:01As you seek this...
0:20:02 > 0:20:03..creature...
0:20:04 > 0:20:08..remember that you act in the name of mankind and act humbly.
0:20:08 > 0:20:14For man is near to forfeiting his right to lead the world.
0:20:14 > 0:20:18He faces destruction by his own hand. Now...
0:20:19 > 0:20:23..when a ruler, king is near death,
0:20:23 > 0:20:26he should not be seeking to extend his realm.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28But take thought...
0:20:30 > 0:20:34..who might, with honour, succeed him.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39Remember this.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43I'm not sure that I understand, sir.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45Now go in peace.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51CHANTING
0:21:03 > 0:21:06OK, emergency rations checked and packed. What's next?
0:21:06 > 0:21:09- Snow crampons.- Crampons. Kusang's getting them.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11Kusang!
0:21:11 > 0:21:12HE SPEAKS NATIVE LANGUAGE
0:21:12 > 0:21:16- Here, watch these guys, they've got a greedy look. - I don't think they...
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Just watch them, that's all! Come on, give us that.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21Hey, Kusang, did you talk to the other porters?
0:21:21 > 0:21:23Yes, Mister, they want paid now.
0:21:23 > 0:21:24They'll get paid when we get back.
0:21:24 > 0:21:28- How come we only got three packs? - Rollason says he's got his own gear.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33- Goodbye, Foxy, look after her. - I will.- See you soon.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37Well, I'd better get back to those reports.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43- Foxy disapproves.- You'd better bracket us together again.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45- Now, I thought we said... - I know, John, but...
0:21:45 > 0:21:48but it's those men, Friend and Shelley, I don't trust them,
0:21:48 > 0:21:51- I don't like them and I don't... - You're just grabbing at straws now.
0:21:51 > 0:21:55- No, I mean this, John.- Listen, Friend talks too much, agreed, and Shelley could use a few manners.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57All right, I snore, they'll be the ones to suffer.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00Don't joke about it, John.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02Helen, darling... look, you do understand.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05I've written and talked enough about this thing, now I've got
0:22:05 > 0:22:09a chance to put it all to the test, I've just got to take it, haven't I?
0:22:09 > 0:22:11Come on now, give me a hand with this.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17DRAMATIC SCORE
0:22:21 > 0:22:24John, for the last time, I'm asking you, don't go.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26- Look, now... - You won't come back, I know it.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28I'll never see you again.
0:22:30 > 0:22:34Hey, Doc! Kusang! Come on, we've got to move.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Be careful, my darling. Be careful.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41I can look after myself, you know that.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44Rollason...!
0:22:56 > 0:22:59TOM: Kusang! TOM SPEAKS NATIVE LANGUAGE
0:23:32 > 0:23:34Hey, Tom, wait a minute. Are we going to keep this pace up?
0:23:34 > 0:23:36We got to make that hut before nightfall.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38We went an easier way last time, over those ridges.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40This time of year, they're all snowed up.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43Yeah, well, look at those characters - they seem to be doing all right.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Yeah, well, they're not going where we're going.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47- You all right, Doc?- So far...
0:23:47 > 0:23:49Well, let's keep moving, nice and steady.
0:23:49 > 0:23:54- Maybe we ought to sing or something? - Yeah, yeah do that.- Uh?- Sing!
0:23:54 > 0:23:56# John Brown's body. #
0:23:56 > 0:23:58Come on, sing!
0:23:59 > 0:24:03ALL: # John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave
0:24:03 > 0:24:06# John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave
0:24:06 > 0:24:08# John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave
0:24:10 > 0:24:13# And his soul goes marching on. #
0:24:17 > 0:24:19# There is a tavern in the town... #
0:24:19 > 0:24:22Save your breath, will you?
0:24:22 > 0:24:23We're making good time, ain't we?
0:24:23 > 0:24:26Yeah, but wait till we really start to climb.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36- How's it going?- What?
0:24:36 > 0:24:37Just getting my second wind.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39If this is what they call travelling light...
0:24:39 > 0:24:43McNee, those three men again, look. Right up there on the skyline.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45They're following us.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47Friend! Friend! Wait a minute.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50We got to keep moving.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54- I think we're being followed. - What?- The three men again.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57- They're still with us. - He's right, it's the same three.
0:24:57 > 0:25:01Yeah, well. Let's just keep moving, that's the best thing.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Let's just keep moving.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13GUNSHOT WHISTLES
0:25:13 > 0:25:16These men bandits! They kill us!
0:25:16 > 0:25:17GUNSHOT WHISTLES
0:25:17 > 0:25:18Down, everybody!
0:25:27 > 0:25:31- They're out of range!- That'll do it, Ed.- If only they'd been a bit nearer.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33They know we're armed, that's the main thing.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36- I don't think they expected that. - Yeah, thought we were easy meat.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38- I think they only meant to frighten us.- Frighten us?!
0:25:38 > 0:25:41They'd have killed us and stripped our clothing and equipment.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43These men bandit - yes, bandit.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46- You get a good look at them, Doc? - Not clearly, just an impression.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49Let's get going, we've lost enough time. Ed, you keep that gun handy.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51You bet!
0:26:05 > 0:26:07Let's take five minutes, catch our breath.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09They're making heavy weather of it.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12- Over that ridge.- There's a lot of rough weather coming up,
0:26:12 > 0:26:14we'll never make it in the time, unless...
0:26:14 > 0:26:17- What?- There is short cut. - Where?- Across the col on that side.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20- It looks awful steep. - Well, let's give it a try.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23You're the prize climber in this party, Doc. Why don't you take over?
0:26:23 > 0:26:25All right, everybody rope up. We need it from here.
0:26:25 > 0:26:29- Kusang, rope.- It will be a short, sharp climb.- So long as it's short. - Fairly short.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32- You take the middle position for safety.- I like safety too.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34We'll be all right if we keep our minds on what we're doing.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36Let's get roped up and get on with it.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38HE SPEAKS NATIVE LANGUAGE
0:26:38 > 0:26:41- You, first.- Let's get going, Doc. Come on, Ed!
0:26:41 > 0:26:42OK, we're coming.
0:26:47 > 0:26:48Hey, Jock!
0:26:50 > 0:26:52Spread out!
0:26:52 > 0:26:53Don't crowd him!
0:26:53 > 0:26:55RUMBLE Avalanche!
0:26:58 > 0:27:02- What happened?- Nothing. Just some small stuff came down.
0:27:02 > 0:27:06- For a minute, I thought we had an avalanche starting.- And it might have been. It was his fault yelling.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09- You're crazy!- No, he isn't. A sharp sound, a sudden vibration -
0:27:09 > 0:27:12that's all it takes, so let's have no more shouting unless it's vital.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14- Right, you got that, Ed?- OK, OK! - Come on, let's go.
0:28:23 > 0:28:24GRUNTS
0:28:49 > 0:28:51SIGHS
0:29:02 > 0:29:04There it is, the hut.
0:29:13 > 0:29:16Oh, there's nothing else in here. It was all sealed in these containers.
0:29:16 > 0:29:18- Now, fill the hole up again. - Fill it up?!
0:29:18 > 0:29:20The yak herders will be up this spring
0:29:20 > 0:29:23- and think the earth devils have been burrowing.- But... - Go ahead and fill it up,
0:29:23 > 0:29:27- you want to scare these ignorant natives to death? You're a civilised man.- Tomorrow.
0:29:27 > 0:29:30If this is the way you've planned the rest of the trip with caches
0:29:30 > 0:29:32- under the floor... - You wouldn't get a meal
0:29:32 > 0:29:35- like this out of an emergency pack. Who's for more?- Not for me, thanks.
0:29:35 > 0:29:38I thought altitude was supposed to make you hungry. Kusang?
0:29:38 > 0:29:42You talk about this as if it was a joke. Have you seriously considered what might happen if...?
0:29:42 > 0:29:45Look, Doc. I've been running into people all my life who cried off
0:29:45 > 0:29:47because what might happen if...
0:29:47 > 0:29:48I went ahead and did it,
0:29:48 > 0:29:50and now for some facts...
0:29:50 > 0:29:52I got some real supplies cached up ahead.
0:29:52 > 0:29:54This was just a snack on the way up.
0:29:54 > 0:29:57What else have you got cached away up there besides food?
0:29:57 > 0:30:00Everything we need from tents to fuel.
0:30:00 > 0:30:05Look, 18,000 feet...we'll stop and make our first camp and search
0:30:05 > 0:30:06at the foot of the icefall.
0:30:06 > 0:30:0820,000 feet, the same procedure.
0:30:08 > 0:30:10And again at 22,000 feet.
0:30:10 > 0:30:13And we've got oxygen if we have to go higher.
0:30:13 > 0:30:16We've got everything we need to get up above this creature.
0:30:16 > 0:30:19Search it out in its own ground and track it down.
0:30:19 > 0:30:22- How about some more of your contribution?- Such as...?
0:30:22 > 0:30:23Expert advice.
0:30:24 > 0:30:26Oh, let us know the nature of the enemy.
0:30:26 > 0:30:30- What's it live on?- Small animals. Hares, mice, voles.
0:30:30 > 0:30:31But we've seen nothing...
0:30:31 > 0:30:33Oh, you don't see 'em, but he's right, they're there.
0:30:33 > 0:30:36- Carnivorous, then, huh?- Needn't be. Roots and plants under the snow.
0:30:36 > 0:30:39It's probably fairly adaptable, like man.
0:30:39 > 0:30:42Like man? What you're suggesting roughly is that this might be
0:30:42 > 0:30:44- some kind of a missing link? - That's a bit too rough.
0:30:44 > 0:30:47Say "Parallel development" and I'm with you.
0:30:47 > 0:30:48Parallel with mankind?
0:30:51 > 0:30:55We're not very far north of India. Now, some millions of years ago,
0:30:55 > 0:30:57that was the breeding ground of huge ape-like animals,
0:30:57 > 0:31:00primitive anthropoids. Their fossil bones are dug up from time to time.
0:31:00 > 0:31:04Now...the latest evolutionary theory is that their descendants
0:31:04 > 0:31:05branched off in two directions.
0:31:05 > 0:31:09One to become the great apes - chimpanzees, orang-utang and so on,
0:31:09 > 0:31:12- and the other - man.- Yeah.
0:31:12 > 0:31:14Darwin's theory all tidied up. So...?
0:31:14 > 0:31:15Well, suppose...
0:31:16 > 0:31:18..suppose there were a third line of descent...
0:31:18 > 0:31:23- Anthropoid X. As different from man as the apes are.- Probably.
0:31:23 > 0:31:25That calls for some great fancy guesswork.
0:31:25 > 0:31:26But what would have happened to them?
0:31:26 > 0:31:30Gradual extinction through changing conditions, attacks of enemies...
0:31:30 > 0:31:33- Might include both apes and men. - Most likely did. Until only a remnant survived.
0:31:33 > 0:31:37Adapting themselves to living where nothing else would, in these mountains.
0:31:37 > 0:31:40- The highest in the world and above the snow line.- There's no proof of all this.
0:31:40 > 0:31:41Not yet, but 100 years ago,
0:31:41 > 0:31:44there was no proof that primitive man had ever existed, either.
0:31:44 > 0:31:46How do you see it? It walks on two legs?
0:31:46 > 0:31:48There's no doubt about that - the tracks prove it.
0:31:48 > 0:31:50They show a foot 13-inches long and very wide indeed.
0:31:50 > 0:31:54The stride of a six-foot man, yet its legs would be far more massive
0:31:54 > 0:31:56and very short in proportion to its height.
0:31:56 > 0:31:58Now, you...you see what that implies?
0:31:58 > 0:32:01- It's big. - Perhaps seven or eight feet high.
0:32:01 > 0:32:04- What do you think, Ed?- Well, can try.
0:32:04 > 0:32:07- Oh, and drag it out, as good a time as any.- I'm not with you.
0:32:07 > 0:32:10Well, we might as well let you in on our little secret, Doc.
0:32:10 > 0:32:13The fact of the matter is that Ed here is an expert trapper.
0:32:13 > 0:32:17Yeah, everything from foxes to grizzlies.
0:32:17 > 0:32:20Now, this is a tungsten steel net, it's just a little sample.
0:32:20 > 0:32:22Do you think it will hold it?
0:32:22 > 0:32:26- If not we have other things up there.- What things? More guns?
0:32:26 > 0:32:29So that's what this is, a hunting party.
0:32:29 > 0:32:33What did you expect us to do? Look at it through a telescope. Have Jock here take a picture...?
0:32:33 > 0:32:35- You told me this was a bona fide investigation.- It is bona fide.
0:32:35 > 0:32:38- I want one alive and so do you.- And what are your interests? Commercial?
0:32:38 > 0:32:41- Well, if they are, they are honest. - Then why all the secrecy?
0:32:41 > 0:32:43Things just like this - outraged indignation.
0:32:43 > 0:32:45I want it to be well under way before...
0:32:45 > 0:32:47- Listen. Listen!- What is it?
0:32:47 > 0:32:51I was certain I heard something, but you were talking so loudly.
0:32:51 > 0:32:53- Outside?- What?
0:32:53 > 0:32:55A sort of cry.
0:32:55 > 0:32:56DRAMATIC SCORE
0:33:06 > 0:33:08- See anything?- Keep your voices down.
0:33:08 > 0:33:11- There.- Snow hummock. - Are you sure?- Quiet.
0:33:12 > 0:33:16- No, it's nothing. - But I'm sure I heard something!
0:33:16 > 0:33:19- Any of the rest of you hear anything? Kusang?- No.
0:33:20 > 0:33:22False alarm.
0:33:22 > 0:33:24Jock, you need some sleep.
0:33:24 > 0:33:25We all do, come on.
0:33:28 > 0:33:32All right, lights out. Let's turn in. We got an early start tomorrow.
0:33:32 > 0:33:34- I won't be with you, I'll follow you up later.- What do you mean?
0:33:34 > 0:33:38- What's up?- I want to stay a while, look around this area.- For what?
0:33:38 > 0:33:40Edible plants close to its habitat.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42I joined a scientific expedition, remember?
0:33:42 > 0:33:44Yeah, I remember.
0:33:44 > 0:33:47All right, Jock, you stay behind with him to form a rope.
0:33:47 > 0:33:48You're the slowest.
0:33:48 > 0:33:51- You don't want to rile, Tom, Doc - he is an exceptional guide.- Yeah.
0:33:51 > 0:33:53You just want to fall in with his ways, that's all.
0:33:53 > 0:33:55Thanks for the advice.
0:33:55 > 0:33:59See, this is real snug. All I need now is women.
0:33:59 > 0:34:03- Remember that time in Bombay, Tom?! - Oh, knock it off, will you?
0:34:03 > 0:34:05Happy dreams to one and all!
0:34:12 > 0:34:16Hey, Doc, wind's dropped. How about a smoke?
0:34:16 > 0:34:17All right.
0:34:23 > 0:34:26I'm sorry I broke out at you like that, just now.
0:34:26 > 0:34:29We're all a it on edge - blame it on the altitude.
0:34:29 > 0:34:31Yeah, well, I think I ought to explain.
0:34:31 > 0:34:33Frankly, I am in this as a commercial venture,
0:34:33 > 0:34:36but I don't think that cheapens my motives in any way.
0:34:36 > 0:34:40- What's at the end of the line? A circus? A zoo?- No, neither.
0:34:42 > 0:34:43- Thanks.- Look...
0:34:44 > 0:34:47I'm not exactly a golden character, Doc.
0:34:47 > 0:34:51After the war I did a little smuggling around the coasts of Europe.
0:34:51 > 0:34:53Odd gun for the angry little countries.
0:34:53 > 0:34:56I lived on two of the basic drives of humanity -
0:34:56 > 0:34:58fear and hunger.
0:34:58 > 0:35:00When they began to dry up on me, I looked around for another one.
0:35:00 > 0:35:03On curiosity - human curiosity.
0:35:03 > 0:35:07- Funny thing. You ever think about it? - I suppose I've suffered under it.
0:35:07 > 0:35:09But the world is full of receptive, inquisitive people.
0:35:09 > 0:35:12People who are informed, responsive to new ideas.
0:35:12 > 0:35:16Radio, television, films - these things have gone to the very homes of the people.
0:35:16 > 0:35:19It's stirred up a very healthy curiosity about the earth that they live on.
0:35:19 > 0:35:21These are the people I work for.
0:35:21 > 0:35:24If I can I'm going to bring them one of these creatures.
0:35:24 > 0:35:29- They can learn and profit from it. - You really believe all that.
0:35:29 > 0:35:33Sure I do, Doc. May give the world a whole new concept, a...
0:35:33 > 0:35:38a new slant on humanity. Help us to know and understand ourselves better.
0:35:38 > 0:35:42- Don't you think that's important? - You'd appear with this creature, show it on television and so on?
0:35:42 > 0:35:45If those are the means, I'll use them.
0:35:47 > 0:35:51Look, don't you understand? Dr Rollason writing learned little books
0:35:51 > 0:35:55in the corner isn't enough any more. It's a new age of awareness.
0:35:55 > 0:35:58It's a big age - you've got to measure up to it, Doc.
0:35:58 > 0:36:01You'd better get some sleep. You've got an early start.
0:36:01 > 0:36:03Yeah, well, you think about it.
0:36:22 > 0:36:25ALL SHOUT
0:36:33 > 0:36:34Foxy! Foxy!
0:36:37 > 0:36:39All right, now get inside. Now, what's the matter?
0:36:39 > 0:36:43All right, you'll get paid when Kusang comes back.
0:36:43 > 0:36:44Now, shut up!
0:36:44 > 0:36:45THEY STOP SHOUTING
0:36:45 > 0:36:46Now, go on, go on!
0:36:48 > 0:36:51It's all right, it's only Friend's porters.
0:36:51 > 0:36:54Apparently, they haven't been paid. Gave you a bit of a shock, hmm?
0:36:54 > 0:36:56Now, you sit down there.
0:36:56 > 0:36:58Have a spot of medicine, make you feel much better.
0:36:58 > 0:37:01- Why do you suppose he didn't pay them, Foxy?- Hmm?
0:37:01 > 0:37:04Oh, just to make sure they're here when he comes back.
0:37:04 > 0:37:05It's customary and reasonable.
0:37:05 > 0:37:07Then why do they suddenly behave like that?
0:37:07 > 0:37:10Well, you know what they are - they've got nothing to do,
0:37:10 > 0:37:12they stand about and chatter and argue and work themselves up.
0:37:12 > 0:37:16- Drink this.- Was that all? - What do you mean? - It was as if they knew something.
0:37:16 > 0:37:18- As if they knew Friend wasn't coming back.- Now...
0:37:18 > 0:37:20Or John or any of the party. They're going to die,
0:37:20 > 0:37:21- and everybody in this place knows it.- Stop it!
0:37:21 > 0:37:25You're talking raving nonsense. Now, come on, drink this.
0:37:27 > 0:37:30You didn't sleep last night, did you?
0:37:30 > 0:37:32Well, make sure you do in future, you take some tablets.
0:37:34 > 0:37:37Lay the whole night just thinking, I...
0:37:37 > 0:37:39I never felt so lonely.
0:37:39 > 0:37:43Now and then I heard a gong across the courtyard and...the wind.
0:37:43 > 0:37:44Foxy...
0:37:44 > 0:37:47you know these things these people believe in...
0:37:47 > 0:37:49clairvoyance, thought transference...?
0:37:49 > 0:37:50Sham magic!
0:37:50 > 0:37:54- Is it sham?- Helen, this country's rotten with superstition.
0:37:54 > 0:37:57It's only dangerous because we are surrounded by people who think it's real.
0:37:57 > 0:38:01And we can slide into thinking it's real too. Now, come on,
0:38:01 > 0:38:03drink that up, you'll feel much better.
0:38:03 > 0:38:06To make sure you're not pursued by the lads of the village again,
0:38:06 > 0:38:09- I think I'll go and have a word with the Lhama.- That's a good idea.
0:38:09 > 0:38:11- I'll come too. - You'll stay right there.
0:38:11 > 0:38:13And if you should feel like another nip of that,
0:38:13 > 0:38:15nobody's going to call you a tippler.
0:38:23 > 0:38:25Hello...?
0:38:28 > 0:38:30Anyone there...?
0:38:51 > 0:38:53Sir...?
0:38:53 > 0:38:55Sir...?
0:39:12 > 0:39:14SCORE BUILDS
0:39:45 > 0:39:50- They're practically out of sight now.- Yes. And going well too.
0:39:50 > 0:39:53- How much longer will this take? - I've found what I wanted.
0:39:53 > 0:39:57Evidence of a possible food supply. A type of moss.
0:39:57 > 0:40:00- Highly nutritious.- You mean...
0:40:00 > 0:40:02- it's food?- It might be.
0:40:04 > 0:40:08Look, let's go on. I don't want that swine to get too far out of sight.
0:40:08 > 0:40:10- You don't trust him? - Tom Friend? No more than you do.
0:40:10 > 0:40:14You're not a very good climber either. Why did you come on this trip, McNee?
0:40:14 > 0:40:16I had to.
0:40:16 > 0:40:20- You had to?! - Ever since that time two years ago.
0:40:20 > 0:40:25I-I felt that this is what I must do, it's a sort of obsession.
0:40:26 > 0:40:29Perhaps a psychologist could explain it, I don't know.
0:40:29 > 0:40:32- All I know is that I've got to find the thing.- Getting near to it
0:40:32 > 0:40:36- before whetted your appetite? - It's all that matters. I...
0:40:37 > 0:40:41I-I applied join all sorts of climbing expeditions,
0:40:41 > 0:40:43hoping I'd be able...
0:40:44 > 0:40:46..but I was turned down every time!
0:40:46 > 0:40:49Then you heard about the Tom Friend expedition?
0:40:49 > 0:40:53He wasn't so particular. I-I paid him to let me come.
0:40:53 > 0:40:55You paid him?!
0:40:55 > 0:40:58I-I can be useful. I'm good with the camera.
0:40:58 > 0:41:01But not so good with an ice axe. A man like you could be dangerous.
0:41:01 > 0:41:02No, I'll try not to be.
0:41:03 > 0:41:05Come on.
0:41:59 > 0:42:02HELLO?
0:42:02 > 0:42:03ECHOES
0:42:22 > 0:42:25FRIEND? WHERE ARE YOU?
0:42:25 > 0:42:27ECHOES
0:42:27 > 0:42:30He said they'd pitch camp at the icefall.
0:42:30 > 0:42:32We're right in the middle of it now.
0:42:32 > 0:42:33They can't be far away.
0:42:35 > 0:42:37HELLO?
0:42:37 > 0:42:38ECHOES
0:42:38 > 0:42:40Wait a minute...
0:42:40 > 0:42:42I thought I heard something.
0:42:43 > 0:42:45Voices.
0:42:46 > 0:42:47Ahead of us.
0:42:49 > 0:42:51Are you there?!
0:42:51 > 0:42:53ECHOES
0:42:53 > 0:42:55Hello?!
0:42:55 > 0:42:57ECHOES
0:42:58 > 0:43:01HE SCREAMS
0:43:04 > 0:43:06A trap. A spring trap.
0:43:10 > 0:43:13- Get it open. Try.- I can't, McNee.
0:43:13 > 0:43:15It's fastened to the rock.
0:43:19 > 0:43:21Hey!
0:43:21 > 0:43:23Don't bash that - it's valuable.
0:43:25 > 0:43:28- Here, here, let me do that. - Did you set this?
0:43:28 > 0:43:31- What do you think? - Without warning us.
0:43:31 > 0:43:34You want me to put a flag on it or something?
0:43:34 > 0:43:36- Did I know you were coming this way? - Get him free.
0:43:36 > 0:43:37STRAINING
0:43:37 > 0:43:40OK, get your foot out.
0:43:40 > 0:43:42- SNAPS SHUT LOUDLY - Oh, he's not hurt bad.
0:43:43 > 0:43:48This is my improvement on a bear trap. It grips but doesn't tear.
0:43:48 > 0:43:52- Didn't even bite through the boot. - Of all the idiotic maniac ideas.
0:43:52 > 0:43:54What do you want to achieve setting these things at random?
0:43:54 > 0:43:55We've achieved it.
0:43:55 > 0:43:58Before you blow your top, Doc, listen.
0:43:58 > 0:44:01- It worked.- Worked? - We caught one of those things.
0:44:04 > 0:44:07You don't believe me? Well, come and look.
0:44:09 > 0:44:12Watch out, it's ice up here.
0:44:13 > 0:44:15- Give him a hand.- Here.
0:44:17 > 0:44:19We found these little tracks, see,
0:44:19 > 0:44:22so I set traps on the chance whatever made them might come back.
0:44:22 > 0:44:24- Little tracks? - Yeah, you wait and see.
0:44:26 > 0:44:29- Hey, Tom, they're here.- Good.
0:44:29 > 0:44:32Kusang. HE SPEAKS NATIVE LANGUAGE
0:44:32 > 0:44:33Throw me that top one.
0:44:33 > 0:44:35ANIMAL SHRIEKS
0:44:40 > 0:44:42Well, finally made it, huh?
0:44:43 > 0:44:46We couldn't wait on you. There it is.
0:44:46 > 0:44:50Not very big, is it, Doc? Not more than four feet high.
0:44:50 > 0:44:53But Kusang has no doubts. Kusang, tell him what it is.
0:44:53 > 0:44:55- Yeti!- Same as you saw before.
0:44:55 > 0:44:57Same. Same.
0:44:57 > 0:45:00That's the expert, Doc. Just maybe you might have made a mistake, huh?
0:45:00 > 0:45:03- Let's get it covered.- Let it go. - What do you mean, "Let it go"?
0:45:03 > 0:45:05That's a langur, Himalayan monkey,
0:45:05 > 0:45:08- you'll find one in half the zoos of the world.- Kusang says...
0:45:08 > 0:45:11Forget about Kusang. He's never seen the creature we're looking for.
0:45:11 > 0:45:14- Yeti. Yeti. - Knock it off, will you?!
0:45:14 > 0:45:17All your trapping's done is to practically maim one of our own men.
0:45:17 > 0:45:19- Jock...?- He just happened to fall...
0:45:19 > 0:45:23- Where can I treat him? In here?- No, that's a supply cache.
0:45:23 > 0:45:26- Let's take him over to the tent. Come on, Jock.- Come on, McNee.
0:45:26 > 0:45:31- You'll be all right.- Steady now. - Kusang, tie him down.
0:45:32 > 0:45:33MONKEY CHIRRUPS
0:45:37 > 0:45:40RADIO INTERFERENCE
0:45:41 > 0:45:43How is it?
0:45:43 > 0:45:47Well, apart from the bleeding, there may be a cracked bone, but without an X-ray, I can't tell.
0:45:47 > 0:45:48Does it hurt?
0:45:48 > 0:45:50Ed, you sure you got the right station on there?
0:45:50 > 0:45:54- It should be.- I fixed it with them to give us a weather forecast, Doc.
0:45:54 > 0:45:55GONG
0:45:55 > 0:45:58ANNOUNCER SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE ON RADIO
0:45:58 > 0:46:03'And now a short weather forecast in English for Himalayan climbing parties.
0:46:03 > 0:46:07'First, the Tom Friend expedition in Western Himalaya.
0:46:07 > 0:46:10'You may expect occasional snow showers rising to blizzard force
0:46:10 > 0:46:11'by tomorrow night.
0:46:11 > 0:46:14'Further outlook - heavy snow continuing.
0:46:14 > 0:46:18'Next, the Van Simone's expedition in Eastern...'
0:46:18 > 0:46:21- Blizzards - that's all we need. - We got 24 hours.
0:46:21 > 0:46:24This man can't march tomorrow. It's out of the question.
0:46:24 > 0:46:26- Tom, we'll dig out the sledge. - You've got a sledge?- Yeah.
0:46:26 > 0:46:28- But it's not for him. - What's it for, then?
0:46:28 > 0:46:32Listen, Doc, this expedition cost a lot of money - I'm not going back empty-handed.
0:46:32 > 0:46:36- That animal we've got in cage out there you say is some kind of a monkey?- Of course it is.
0:46:36 > 0:46:39Well, that's the mysterious yeti or snowman. We've proved it.
0:46:39 > 0:46:41- Kusang here confirms it.- Meaning...?
0:46:41 > 0:46:44Meaning that, from now on, we sell that fact.
0:46:44 > 0:46:45I got to get that brute down to India.
0:46:45 > 0:46:49- That particular verified specimen of the yeti.- Sales promotion.
0:46:49 > 0:46:52- I can do it. I know how to handle it. - Sure, Tom, like with Franchini.
0:46:52 > 0:46:56- Shut up!- The Franchini case? Were you in that?- He doesn't know what he's talking about.
0:46:56 > 0:46:59- There was no Tom Friend in it. How long have you used that name? - I use what name I like.
0:46:59 > 0:47:03- Just what case do you think you're talking about? - The Indian wolf children.
0:47:03 > 0:47:05- Allegedly reared by wolves in the jungle...- All right.
0:47:05 > 0:47:08..who then turned out to be plain mental defectives.
0:47:08 > 0:47:10All right, that's what the people wanted.
0:47:10 > 0:47:12Another new concept for humanity.
0:47:12 > 0:47:14You're nothing but a cheap fairground trickster.
0:47:14 > 0:47:16I don't like your...!
0:47:16 > 0:47:18- CLAMOUR - The radio...!
0:47:18 > 0:47:22GRUNTING
0:47:22 > 0:47:24That's taken care of the weather forecasts.
0:47:26 > 0:47:32It's the altitude. I don't know... it makes you lose control. Ah.
0:47:32 > 0:47:35- I'm sorry, Doc.- Forget it.
0:47:35 > 0:47:37How do you feel, McNee?
0:47:40 > 0:47:42McNee?
0:47:42 > 0:47:44What's he hearing? Listen...
0:47:44 > 0:47:47CREAKING AND MONKEY SHRIEKING
0:47:47 > 0:47:51- The cage. Give me a torch, Ed. Bring some flares.- Yeah.
0:47:53 > 0:47:54Come on, we may need you!
0:48:05 > 0:48:09- Look at the cage, it's all twisted. - It's gone. It's got away.
0:48:09 > 0:48:15And the door... It's all wrenched off. I just don't understand this.
0:48:15 > 0:48:18Let's see, see if we can pick up the tracks.
0:48:18 > 0:48:20Oh, the snow's all trampled about.
0:48:20 > 0:48:22Hey, what's this, there's a track.
0:48:22 > 0:48:25Hey, look at that, they're two different kinds.
0:48:25 > 0:48:27Look at the size of it.
0:48:27 > 0:48:3015, 16 inches long.
0:48:30 > 0:48:33There's no doubt about it, there was something else here, too.
0:48:33 > 0:48:37- Put that torch out!- Yeah.- What are we going to do? Try and follow it?
0:48:37 > 0:48:40Kusang, get the rifles, quick.
0:48:40 > 0:48:42Quick, get the rifles!
0:48:54 > 0:48:57QUIET CREAKING
0:49:26 > 0:49:28HE GASPS
0:49:28 > 0:49:30HE SCREAMS
0:49:30 > 0:49:32What was that? Light the flare.
0:49:34 > 0:49:36There's something by the tent!
0:49:36 > 0:49:38SCREAMING It's Kusang!
0:49:44 > 0:49:48Kusang. Kusang, what was it?
0:49:48 > 0:49:51- Kusang?!- Hey, Tom, look. Those big tracks all around here.
0:49:51 > 0:49:52McNee...
0:49:55 > 0:49:57McNee?
0:49:57 > 0:50:00- Are you all right? What was it?- Is he OK?- I don't know.
0:50:00 > 0:50:02Give me a gun and some of those flares. Come on!
0:50:05 > 0:50:06- Enough?- Yeah.
0:50:08 > 0:50:11What does it look like? What did you see? Kusang, tell me.
0:50:11 > 0:50:18I see, I see...what man must not see. I see true...yeti!
0:50:19 > 0:50:22- Kusang.- You made me see it!
0:50:22 > 0:50:24HE SHRIEKS
0:50:24 > 0:50:26Kusang!
0:50:28 > 0:50:30Come back, Kusang!
0:50:49 > 0:50:51Kusang! Come back!
0:50:51 > 0:50:53Kusang!
0:51:04 > 0:51:06DRAMATIC SCORE
0:51:20 > 0:51:23- Find him?- No, but I found something else.- What's that?
0:51:23 > 0:51:25One of your traps all broken apart.
0:51:27 > 0:51:30Come on.
0:51:37 > 0:51:38MCNEE MUTTERS
0:51:38 > 0:51:41- Any sign of Kusang?- No, you can bet he's headed back home by now.
0:51:41 > 0:51:43Going down it will only take him a few hours.
0:51:43 > 0:51:44He's nearly out of his mind.
0:51:44 > 0:51:47He had good cause to be if he saw what did this.
0:51:47 > 0:51:52With this and those footprints, you can get a pretty good idea of the weight of the thing that made them.
0:51:52 > 0:51:55- Looks like you were right, Doc. - Partly, but don't forget the vital part.
0:51:55 > 0:51:57This creature may have an affinity with man,
0:51:57 > 0:52:02- something in common with ourselves. Let's remember that before we start shooting.- Sure, sure(!)
0:52:02 > 0:52:03MCNEE SHOUTS
0:52:03 > 0:52:05- Is he getting delirious? - I'm afraid so.
0:52:05 > 0:52:08- You took care of his ankle.- I did what I could. This isn't a hospital,
0:52:08 > 0:52:11- and that's where he ought to be. - Well, give him another shot.
0:52:11 > 0:52:13No, he's had enough. All right, McNee, all right.
0:52:13 > 0:52:16Go to sleep, old boy, you're fine. McNee, did you hear what I said?
0:52:16 > 0:52:17McNee...
0:52:19 > 0:52:21- He's almost in the condition of trance.- Trance?
0:52:21 > 0:52:25- This is the way I found him after the thing had been here. - What are you getting it?
0:52:25 > 0:52:29- I'm not sure. - You mean he's affected by it in some way?- It's not impossible.
0:52:29 > 0:52:32- If he were hyper-sensitive to their presence.- Their presence?
0:52:32 > 0:52:35- When he gets like this, they might be close?- It's only a wild guess.
0:52:35 > 0:52:38McNee, McNee?
0:52:38 > 0:52:39The eyes...
0:52:39 > 0:52:41McNee?
0:52:41 > 0:52:44He's in a complete state of trance.
0:52:44 > 0:52:47McNee, can you understand me? Can you hear me, McNee?
0:52:48 > 0:52:50His pulse...
0:52:50 > 0:52:51GUNSHOT
0:52:55 > 0:52:58DISTANT SHRIEK
0:53:03 > 0:53:07Tom, I think...! There's something out there on the ice!
0:53:07 > 0:53:08I got it, Tom, I got it!
0:54:06 > 0:54:07Careful, Tom.
0:54:09 > 0:54:11It's dead.
0:54:13 > 0:54:14So, that's it...
0:54:14 > 0:54:17Really it.
0:54:17 > 0:54:21- The abominable snowman. - Look at the size of that body.
0:54:21 > 0:54:23Looks like you underestimated it, Doc.
0:54:23 > 0:54:26- Must be 10 feet... maybe 11 feet high.- Yeah.
0:54:28 > 0:54:30That face...
0:54:30 > 0:54:31DISTANT HOWLING
0:54:31 > 0:54:33There's more of 'em.
0:54:33 > 0:54:35They know.
0:54:35 > 0:54:38Listen, we'd better get this thing back to camp.
0:54:38 > 0:54:41Between us, we ought to be able to manage.
0:54:41 > 0:54:43Ed, get a rope and the sledge, give me your gun.
0:54:43 > 0:54:45Right.
0:54:49 > 0:54:51DISTANT HOWL
0:54:55 > 0:54:57DISTANT HOWLING
0:55:01 > 0:55:03LOUD KNOCKING
0:55:27 > 0:55:29MUTTERS
0:55:35 > 0:55:38MUTTERS EXCITEDLY
0:55:42 > 0:55:44Foxy.
0:55:48 > 0:55:50- Foxy, wake up!- Mm, what's...?
0:55:50 > 0:55:54- The porter's come back.- Porter? - The one they took with them, the one called Kusang.- You must be dreaming.
0:55:54 > 0:55:56No, I'm not, I saw him in the courtyard.
0:55:56 > 0:55:58He seems exhausted and could hardly stand up.
0:55:58 > 0:56:00He's not there now, they took him away.
0:56:00 > 0:56:03He was there, Foxy. They took him through that door.
0:56:03 > 0:56:06- I've got to know what this means. - Helen, for heaven's sake. - I'm going to see the Lhama.
0:56:06 > 0:56:08You'll never see him at this hour, you'll...
0:56:57 > 0:57:00SHE SCREAMS
0:57:05 > 0:57:09Drink this, drink it.
0:57:09 > 0:57:12You have been frightened. One of my servants found you
0:57:12 > 0:57:15wandering in the secret part of the building.
0:57:15 > 0:57:18- I was looking for you. Kusang's come back.- Kusang?
0:57:18 > 0:57:20The porter who went with my husband and the others.
0:57:20 > 0:57:22- I saw him in the courtyard. - You're mistaken.
0:57:22 > 0:57:26I'm not mistaken. I saw him, I tell you, in the courtyard.
0:57:26 > 0:57:28- It was not Kusang. - But I swear to you.
0:57:28 > 0:57:31You are concerned for your husband.
0:57:31 > 0:57:33He's in danger, I'm sure of it.
0:57:33 > 0:57:36Danger, yes.
0:57:36 > 0:57:39They are in danger, all of them.
0:57:39 > 0:57:41From their own actions.
0:57:41 > 0:57:43I don't understand you, but you've got to help me.
0:57:43 > 0:57:47- Do something, warn them, bring them back.- I can do nothing.- Why?!
0:57:47 > 0:57:51It is not possible to bend the destiny of man.
0:57:51 > 0:57:55The fate of your husband will be governed by his own nature.
0:58:08 > 0:58:10Mr Fox...
0:58:10 > 0:58:13you will conduct this lady back to her living quarters.
0:58:13 > 0:58:17- I'm so sorry about this, sir. Come along.- Get me away...
0:58:18 > 0:58:20Get me away from him...
0:58:21 > 0:58:25- Don't you realise the hopelessness of it?- We've got to try and find them, Foxy.
0:58:25 > 0:58:27There's no way of telling where they are by now.
0:58:27 > 0:58:30- With three or four native guides, we have a chance.- Native guides?
0:58:30 > 0:58:31I'll tackle those porters down there.
0:58:31 > 0:58:33You'll never persuade them to go, not until...
0:58:33 > 0:58:36- I think I can. - Supposing the Lhama forbids them to?
0:58:36 > 0:58:40Listen, Foxy, they are waiting for money, aren't they? Well, I can give it to them.
0:58:42 > 0:58:44For heaven's sake, Helen, you're not going to give them all that?
0:58:44 > 0:58:46I'll give them everything I've got, Foxy.
0:58:46 > 0:58:51All right, well, let me handle it, we don't want to overdo it. There's one of them now.
0:58:51 > 0:58:52Where are the others?
0:58:52 > 0:58:55Where are the others?!
0:58:55 > 0:58:57Well, call them for me, call them.
0:58:57 > 0:59:00HE SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE
0:59:00 > 0:59:04CLAMOURING
0:59:06 > 0:59:10All right. Now, I want four porters...
0:59:10 > 0:59:13Wait, wait, wait...
0:59:14 > 0:59:19- Hey, Doc!- Hark the herald angels. - Oh, what's the matter now?
0:59:19 > 0:59:21Doc! Come down here!
0:59:21 > 0:59:24I'll come when I can.
0:59:24 > 0:59:25Noisy...
0:59:25 > 0:59:29We're transferring to the cave. It'll give us protection against heavy snow...
0:59:29 > 0:59:31Don't tell me Friend's delaying here for my sake(?)
0:59:31 > 0:59:34Oh, no, he's not satisfied with the bag so far.
0:59:34 > 0:59:37- In a couple of days, this foot should be usable.- Thanks to you.
0:59:37 > 0:59:40- Oh...- Tell me...
0:59:40 > 0:59:43- what does it look like? - The dead one?- Uh-huh.
0:59:43 > 0:59:45Well, you'll see. It bears out a lot of my guesses.
0:59:45 > 0:59:49It's massive, and its height is about 10 foot 5 inches.
0:59:49 > 0:59:52Weight - 650 pounds. Its age is difficult to assess...
0:59:52 > 0:59:54No, that's not what I mean...
0:59:54 > 0:59:57- Didn't you see what it looked like? - The face?
0:59:57 > 1:00:01Yes. There's nothing ape-like about it.
1:00:01 > 1:00:04There's nothing human either, but I felt it had...
1:00:04 > 1:00:05Go on, go on...
1:00:05 > 1:00:10..a sadness, and it was probably only a surface resemblance...
1:00:10 > 1:00:11but wisdom.
1:00:11 > 1:00:13Rollason, we need you down here.
1:00:13 > 1:00:16- How's it feel?- Better.
1:00:16 > 1:00:20Try and ease that boot on slowly, and I'll take these packs down
1:00:20 > 1:00:21and come back for you.
1:00:24 > 1:00:26- Right, hold it there a minute.- Right.
1:00:26 > 1:00:29Come round this side.
1:00:29 > 1:00:30There.
1:00:30 > 1:00:34- See if we can get a little more purchase.- OK.
1:00:38 > 1:00:40Listen...
1:00:40 > 1:00:41DISTANT HOWLING
1:01:01 > 1:01:03HOWLING GETS LOUDER
1:01:49 > 1:01:51Well, I'll get you down there now...
1:01:52 > 1:01:55McNee...
1:01:55 > 1:01:57McNee!
1:01:57 > 1:01:59- McNee!- What is it?
1:01:59 > 1:02:02- He's gone.- Gone? - Without this and without gloves.
1:02:13 > 1:02:15Up there, look.
1:02:19 > 1:02:21MCNEE!
1:02:24 > 1:02:26MCNEE!
1:02:26 > 1:02:29MCNEE!
1:02:29 > 1:02:31MCNEE!
1:02:36 > 1:02:37Watch out!
1:02:37 > 1:02:39MCNEE SCREAMS
1:02:48 > 1:02:51He must have hit a rock. It would have been instantaneous.
1:02:53 > 1:02:54They killed him.
1:02:57 > 1:02:59It was the sound of that howling.
1:03:00 > 1:03:02He couldn't stand it, it drove him mad.
1:03:02 > 1:03:04He fell because his foot was useless.
1:03:05 > 1:03:07They killed him.
1:03:07 > 1:03:09GUNSHOTS
1:03:09 > 1:03:11Ed...
1:03:14 > 1:03:18GUNSHOT
1:03:19 > 1:03:21Ed, Ed! Are you all right?
1:03:21 > 1:03:23What happened?
1:03:23 > 1:03:24I just got to it, the gun...
1:03:24 > 1:03:27- I just got to it, another second... - What happened?
1:03:27 > 1:03:31They came at me, two of them! You just don't know what it's like!
1:03:31 > 1:03:33Close to you in the light, they're...
1:03:33 > 1:03:37- Take a drink.- But how did it happen? - Take it easy, Ed.
1:03:37 > 1:03:38- Go on...- I-I...
1:03:38 > 1:03:44I just came out of the cave, and these two came running towards me.
1:03:44 > 1:03:48The size of them, you wouldn't credit the speed they can move!
1:03:48 > 1:03:49I'd get them again.
1:03:49 > 1:03:52I know, you blasted off enough to start an avalanche, but you missed them.
1:03:52 > 1:03:55It was like this, the sun was in my eyes, and I couldn't get organised!
1:03:55 > 1:03:58Tom, they're after me. They know it was me that did it last night!
1:03:58 > 1:04:01- They're after me!- They're after all of us! They just killed McNee.
1:04:01 > 1:04:04- You can't say that.- What?! - It was an accident.
1:04:04 > 1:04:06It's me next. They know it was me.
1:04:06 > 1:04:08Ah, don't worry, I've had this before.
1:04:08 > 1:04:11Me and a grizzly once, we ran a war near a whole winter.
1:04:11 > 1:04:14I can handle it. But we want to act, that's what we want to do right now!
1:04:15 > 1:04:18Hey, Tom, let's get some action. Why are we just sitting around?
1:04:18 > 1:04:23- We know they're up there! Why don't we go up there and find them? - Look, I got an idea.
1:04:23 > 1:04:27- You've had a lot of tough assignments. Can you handle one more? - That's what I want, yeah, action!
1:04:27 > 1:04:29Can you rig that steel net up in the roof of that cave?
1:04:32 > 1:04:34- Yeah, I guess so.- A little trap or anything that might go in there?
1:04:34 > 1:04:37Yeah, I can do that. But what about springing the trap, who does that?
1:04:40 > 1:04:45Oh, I get it. I do. I'm in the back there acting as bait, right?
1:04:45 > 1:04:47Right.
1:04:47 > 1:04:49You're a character, Tom!
1:04:49 > 1:04:50Ah, sure I'll do it.
1:04:50 > 1:04:52I told you that's what I wanted. Let's get to work
1:04:52 > 1:04:54while they've still got me in mind.
1:04:57 > 1:05:00- Yeah...let's get it cleared. - Give me a spade.
1:05:00 > 1:05:02Ah, here's one. What do you want a spade for?
1:05:03 > 1:05:05Oh, yeah, Jock.
1:05:37 > 1:05:41Foxy. Foxy - food container. They've been here, we must go on.
1:05:41 > 1:05:44We daren't, not now. Come in, we're going to camp here.
1:05:44 > 1:05:45HE SPEAKS NATIVE LANGUAGE
1:05:45 > 1:05:48Listen, at the slightest encouragement, they'll all desert,
1:05:48 > 1:05:50and this time, you'll never get them back.
1:05:50 > 1:05:52HE SPEAKS NATIVE LANGUAGE
1:05:53 > 1:05:56- Tom, it's all fixed. Come and look.- Right.
1:06:04 > 1:06:05Well, there she is.
1:06:05 > 1:06:08One pull on this, and the whole thing comes down.
1:06:08 > 1:06:11- You sure it will work?- I've tested and tried. Nice work, eh, Doc?
1:06:11 > 1:06:13You know my feelings. I don't like the idea,
1:06:13 > 1:06:15your part in it least of all.
1:06:15 > 1:06:18- If you want my advice...- Listen, Doc, he doesn't need your advice.
1:06:18 > 1:06:20- He can pull out any time he wants to. - Who wants to pull out?!
1:06:20 > 1:06:23It's your business, but when the risks can't be calculated...
1:06:23 > 1:06:26When that thing falls, anything underneath it will be fully occupied.
1:06:26 > 1:06:29That's tungsten steel with a breaking strain of 20,000 pounds.
1:06:29 > 1:06:32The more it struggles, the more the whole thing tightens on it.
1:06:32 > 1:06:35In addition to which, there you are, Ed...cleaned and loaded.
1:06:35 > 1:06:38- Thanks, Tom. Just in case I should need it.- Just in case.
1:06:38 > 1:06:40Aye, you can trust me.
1:06:40 > 1:06:43I am trusting you with this unique specimen when it shows up.
1:06:44 > 1:06:47It's beginning to snow out there again.
1:06:47 > 1:06:50Listen, Edward, we'll keep you covered from the tent.
1:06:50 > 1:06:54Check every half hour, but the moment anything happens, you signal.
1:06:54 > 1:06:55- You bet I'll signal.- Right.
1:06:58 > 1:07:01This is complete madness, Friend, and you know it.
1:07:01 > 1:07:04Relax, will you? He knows how to hold his fire.
1:07:50 > 1:07:53- It's getting vicious.- You can see the cave?- Yeah, so far.
1:07:53 > 1:07:56- You'd better call it off. - Call it off?
1:07:56 > 1:07:58This snow may be just the thing they're waiting for.
1:07:58 > 1:08:03- That man's depending on you. - If he gets in trouble, I'm going to help him, don't worry.- Friend...
1:08:03 > 1:08:05- why not settle for the one we've got?- I've said no.
1:08:05 > 1:08:09You've cracked the mystery, you've proved the creature exists, settle for that.
1:08:09 > 1:08:10- Take back a dead one? - If we can.- Uh-uh.
1:08:10 > 1:08:13Have them pickle it and write out learned reports,
1:08:13 > 1:08:15stick a skeleton in a museum and call it something Rollasoni.
1:08:15 > 1:08:17- I'm not looking for credit.- No?
1:08:17 > 1:08:20- Not going to be like that, he's mine. - Like the famous wolf children?
1:08:20 > 1:08:24Just the opposite - this is no fake, that's why I'm not going to give up.
1:08:24 > 1:08:26I'm going to prove to them I can bring back the real thing.
1:08:26 > 1:08:28You can't drag this down to a personal level,
1:08:28 > 1:08:30it's far too important.
1:08:30 > 1:08:31Not to me.
1:08:32 > 1:08:34Listen, there's a warning with this creature.
1:08:34 > 1:08:38It's strong, intelligent, it may have powers we haven't developed.
1:08:38 > 1:08:40It might have inherited the earth.
1:08:40 > 1:08:43Something went wrong, and here it is, the last vestige of a species
1:08:43 > 1:08:45hiding away where nothing else will live.
1:08:45 > 1:08:48Waiting in misery and despair for final extinction.
1:08:48 > 1:08:50I don't have to point the moral.
1:08:50 > 1:08:52If they drop the H-bomb, your descendants too may wind up
1:08:52 > 1:08:53in the ice.
1:09:14 > 1:09:16Can you see anything?
1:09:16 > 1:09:19Uh, I thought...
1:09:19 > 1:09:21No.
1:09:21 > 1:09:24Let's...let's have a cigarette.
1:09:27 > 1:09:29ROARING AND CRASHING
1:09:35 > 1:09:40ROARING
1:09:46 > 1:09:48TOM!
1:09:48 > 1:09:50GUNSHOT
1:09:51 > 1:09:53It's OK, we're coming.
1:09:53 > 1:09:55HE GROANS AND SIMPERS
1:09:56 > 1:10:02Stop. We can't see a thing. Keep together. Come on.
1:10:02 > 1:10:03ROARING
1:10:08 > 1:10:10There it is.
1:10:13 > 1:10:15Ripped to pieces.
1:10:17 > 1:10:20Ed!
1:10:23 > 1:10:25- He's dead.- Dead?
1:10:25 > 1:10:29- What, but... How did they kill him? - I can't find any mark.
1:10:29 > 1:10:31It looks like a heart attack.
1:10:31 > 1:10:32His face...
1:10:32 > 1:10:33I think he died from shock.
1:10:34 > 1:10:37- He didn't use the gun, why?- Here... - Just a minute...
1:10:40 > 1:10:42The magazine's empty.
1:10:45 > 1:10:47That's strange.
1:10:47 > 1:10:50Each shell's been struck by the firing pin but didn't go off.
1:10:50 > 1:10:52They didn't go off, Friend.
1:10:52 > 1:10:55You loaded the gun. What with? Dummy ammunition?
1:10:58 > 1:11:00I didn't want another dead one.
1:11:02 > 1:11:05I knew he'd fire even if the net held, he was scared.
1:11:06 > 1:11:09Have they been at this? Our gun must have frightened them off.
1:11:09 > 1:11:12- I think this was all they wanted. - You mean they weren't after Ed?- No.
1:11:12 > 1:11:15- But they killed him! - No, they didn't, Friend.
1:11:16 > 1:11:18You did.
1:12:09 > 1:12:12BOTH GRUNT
1:12:18 > 1:12:21You think that'll stop them?
1:12:21 > 1:12:23Well, it will give us a fighting chance if they decide to attack.
1:12:23 > 1:12:27- If they do. - You think they won't, huh?
1:12:27 > 1:12:28Let me tell you something...
1:12:28 > 1:12:31I'm not going to take any chances on losing that one.
1:12:31 > 1:12:35I'm going to do like you said, Doc, and be satisfied with the one we got.
1:12:35 > 1:12:38That decision's a little late.
1:12:38 > 1:12:41- It's cold in here. Want a drink, Doc?- Hmm?
1:12:41 > 1:12:45- No. No, thanks.- We've got to keep alert, keep our circulation up,
1:12:45 > 1:12:46be ready for them.
1:12:46 > 1:12:50Get a hit the first time. There may not be a second chance.
1:12:50 > 1:12:53Oh...
1:12:53 > 1:12:56- What's on your mind? - I wonder what they'll try.
1:12:56 > 1:12:58- Try?- They know you've got a gun and what it can do.
1:12:58 > 1:13:00They knew Ed had a gun - that didn't stop them.
1:13:00 > 1:13:03Suppose they knew what you knew about Shelley's gun.
1:13:03 > 1:13:05You mean, they could... thought transference?
1:13:05 > 1:13:08Oh, don't give me that.
1:13:08 > 1:13:10Let's get something straight, Doc...
1:13:10 > 1:13:14these are animals, dangerous killers, and that's all they are.
1:13:14 > 1:13:18McNee died from an accident, Shelley died of his own fear.
1:13:18 > 1:13:22It isn't what's out there that's dangerous as much as what's in us.
1:13:22 > 1:13:26- What are you doing there? - I'm wondering...
1:13:26 > 1:13:31wondering how old that face is. It's seen a long life.
1:13:31 > 1:13:35Longer than ours, I should say. 100 years...perhaps more.
1:13:35 > 1:13:39And this isn't the face of a... a savage thing, there's...
1:13:39 > 1:13:40- gentleness...- Gentleness?!
1:13:40 > 1:13:42Suppose they're not just a...
1:13:42 > 1:13:46a pitiable remnant waiting to die out? They're waiting, yes, but...
1:13:46 > 1:13:49- waiting for us to go. - For mankind to die out?
1:13:50 > 1:13:53It was something the Lhama said.
1:13:53 > 1:13:55About taking thought to man's successors.
1:13:55 > 1:13:58I didn't understand then, but... suppose WE'RE the savages?
1:13:58 > 1:14:01We're what? Are you out of your mind, Doc?
1:14:01 > 1:14:05Perhaps, for them, WE'VE been the Dark Ages, feted ourselves too long.
1:14:05 > 1:14:08Perhaps we're not Homo sapiens, thinking man.
1:14:08 > 1:14:11What has our thinking brought us to?
1:14:11 > 1:14:13But Homo vastens, man the destroyer.
1:14:15 > 1:14:20When the world knows about these creatures, they'll destroy it too.
1:14:20 > 1:14:24And, of course, we're men, we can only be here to destroy them.
1:14:24 > 1:14:26- They must be aware of that. - You mean we're the enemy, huh?
1:14:26 > 1:14:30If they can deal with us, the secret's kept.
1:14:30 > 1:14:32- It's their only chance of survival. - Up here in the ice?
1:14:32 > 1:14:36- Survival for what?- It's enough, until, perhaps, their time comes.
1:14:36 > 1:14:40- Doc, you better have a drink. - We'd better have something to eat.
1:14:40 > 1:14:43That's a good idea, then we'll take turns on watch.
1:14:43 > 1:14:46Throw me something from one of those self-heating cans, will you?
1:14:46 > 1:14:49- Like living inside of an iceberg in here.- One soup coming up.
1:14:52 > 1:14:55RADIO: 'And now a short weather forecast in English
1:14:55 > 1:14:57'for Himalayan climbing parties.
1:14:57 > 1:15:00'First, the Tom Friend expedition in the Western Himalaya.
1:15:00 > 1:15:05'You are warned to return to base immediately, abandoning all gear.
1:15:05 > 1:15:09'I repeat - abandon all gear and return.'
1:15:11 > 1:15:16- Friend...?- Ah.- Where's the radio? - Over there. It's all smashed up.
1:15:16 > 1:15:18Smashed?
1:15:18 > 1:15:21If you're thinking of trying to fix it, you can forget it. It's had it.
1:15:21 > 1:15:25- But didn't you hear?- Hear what? I told you that thing is wrecked.
1:15:29 > 1:15:31Friend, we must get out of here!
1:15:31 > 1:15:34What's the matter with you!
1:15:34 > 1:15:36We're going to get out of here when it's daylight and not before!
1:15:36 > 1:15:39What's the matter with you - are you cracking up?
1:15:39 > 1:15:42Maybe that's it - a touch of altitude sickness.
1:15:42 > 1:15:46Yeah, well, go get some oxygen, right over there.
1:15:46 > 1:15:50- Yes.- Just turn the tap, it's all ready for use.- I'll use some.
1:15:50 > 1:15:53Don't want you going sick on me.
1:15:53 > 1:15:55It won't be easy managing that sledge tomorrow.
1:15:55 > 1:15:58All that new snow bound to make it unstable.
1:16:04 > 1:16:06- Feeling better?- Yeah.
1:16:08 > 1:16:10Uh, it's going to be tough going. We'll just have to get
1:16:10 > 1:16:14out to the middle of the glacier and just keep going, that's all. Keep going.
1:16:14 > 1:16:15- (DISTANT SHOUT)- HELP!
1:16:20 > 1:16:22HELP ME!
1:16:26 > 1:16:27Ed?
1:16:27 > 1:16:30TOM! HELP ME!
1:16:34 > 1:16:38TOM! HELP ME!
1:16:41 > 1:16:43What's the matter with you? Didn't you hear that?
1:16:46 > 1:16:48What can you hear?
1:16:48 > 1:16:51TOM! HELP!
1:16:51 > 1:16:55I can hear him yelling out there. They got him!
1:16:55 > 1:16:57- Stay here, wait. - Ed, I can hear you! I'm coming!
1:16:57 > 1:17:00You've got to understand, that isn't Shelley, it isn't anybody.
1:17:00 > 1:17:03- I can hear his voice. - It's in your own mind! It's just happened to me too.
1:17:03 > 1:17:06- I've got to save him! - Listen, Shelley's dead!
1:17:06 > 1:17:08- No, no, that's a mistake! - You've got to understand...!
1:17:08 > 1:17:10HE GROANS
1:17:13 > 1:17:15Ed, I'm coming!
1:17:17 > 1:17:19Friend...!
1:17:19 > 1:17:20PANTING
1:17:22 > 1:17:25TOM! HELP ME!
1:17:25 > 1:17:27ED!
1:17:28 > 1:17:30I DON'T UNDERSTAND, ED!
1:17:32 > 1:17:34ED, WHERE ARE YOU?
1:17:37 > 1:17:39ED, I'M HERE!
1:17:41 > 1:17:43I CAME TO HELP YOU THIS TIME, I MEAN IT!
1:17:47 > 1:17:49Friend...!
1:17:49 > 1:17:51Don't use the gun.
1:17:51 > 1:17:54The snow...
1:17:54 > 1:17:55The snow...!
1:17:58 > 1:18:01HELP! TOM! HELP ME!
1:18:02 > 1:18:05HELP! TOM!
1:18:05 > 1:18:07I can't see you.
1:18:07 > 1:18:08RUMBLE
1:18:08 > 1:18:10Stop firing!
1:18:10 > 1:18:13Come back!
1:18:16 > 1:18:18Ed, Ed!
1:18:18 > 1:18:20Where are you, Ed?
1:18:20 > 1:18:21Where...?
1:18:23 > 1:18:26Where are you, Ed?
1:18:26 > 1:18:27DEEP RUMBLE
1:18:36 > 1:18:38FRIEND, COME BACK!
1:18:38 > 1:18:40IT'S AN AVALANCHE!
1:18:43 > 1:18:46GET UNDER COVER, QUICK!
1:19:40 > 1:19:42FRIEND!
1:19:42 > 1:19:43ECHOES
1:19:47 > 1:19:50FRIEND!
1:19:50 > 1:19:51ECHOES
1:19:59 > 1:20:01FRIEND!
1:20:01 > 1:20:02ECHOES
1:20:13 > 1:20:16Friend.
1:20:16 > 1:20:18HE COUGHS
1:21:04 > 1:21:06STONES MOVE
1:21:23 > 1:21:25DRAMATIC SCORE SWELLS
1:21:46 > 1:21:48DISTANT HOWLING
1:22:16 > 1:22:19DISTANT HOWLING
1:22:43 > 1:22:45Helen?
1:22:51 > 1:22:52HELEN?! HELEN?!
1:22:56 > 1:22:58HELEN!
1:23:01 > 1:23:04Wake up! Grab one of these, follow me, come on. All of you.
1:23:52 > 1:23:54DRAMATIC SCORE
1:23:55 > 1:23:57John! JOHN!
1:23:57 > 1:24:00HELEN!
1:24:03 > 1:24:05SHE SOBS
1:24:05 > 1:24:07UP HERE!
1:24:19 > 1:24:22CHANTING
1:24:34 > 1:24:38I'm sorry. This has been, for you, a severe trial.
1:24:38 > 1:24:42All your companions dead in all these accidents,
1:24:42 > 1:24:45and with all the sufferings,
1:24:45 > 1:24:48you did not find what you went out to seek.
1:24:48 > 1:24:52- I'm afraid I was wrong.- Wrong?
1:24:52 > 1:24:54What I was looking for...
1:24:54 > 1:24:57- does not exist. - You are certain of that?
1:24:58 > 1:25:01Yes.
1:25:01 > 1:25:04There is no...yeti.