(laughing)
- [Hiker] Don't film this.
Don't judge me!
(laughter)
- [Man] You need a fucking chisel.
You need a jackhammer and shit.
- [Brad] Jackhammer!
- [Brett] This sucks.
(laughter)
(slow music)
- Morning everybody, it's day five.
And it's 6:30 in the morning and I'm standing on a rock
overlooking Karanga Camp, as you can see behind me.
And, that's not actually the summit.
Today, this morning, we'll be trekking up to base camp
for about three hours in that direction.
We will then camp and then we'll make the summit
tomorrow morning.
I'm freezing cold here.
Got my camera down there; it's doing a time-lapse video.
You have the sunrise.
We have Mount Meru.
Can you see that peak there?
That's Mount Meru.
I had a really good sleep last night.
Freezing cold, I'm standing on this rock,
watching my camera.
So, pretty happy.
(soaring music)
- [Man] Are you nervous?
- How're you feeling, mate?
There's Dennis, right there.
- Day before hump day, folks.
How do you feel, mate?
- Dennis the Menace. - Feel good, feel good.
Ready to pole-pole.
- [Man] Ready?
- [Pamela] Good morning!
- Morning, Pamela.
- Go Vikings!
- [Brad] Hey Dylan.
They want you to eat it man.
- [Dylan] Damn, I'm not eating this porridge.
- [Brad] They're gonna be offended
if you don't eat it.
- I'm...
(laughter)
- That's a surprise that's not happening.
- [Brad] Bro, I'm just kidding, bro!
(laughter)
- [Man With Glasses] Does somebody have the peanut butter?
- [Brad] It's the closest thing to a hamburger, so...
(laughing)
- [Brad] Wait for a bite.
Wait for a bite.
- I wonder what people are going to come home to
after this is, and say like,
what the eclectic group of people were like.
- Yeah, I wonder, if you could describe this group,
Andrew, in one of your many sayings,
how would you describe this group?
- [Andrew] I don't own the vocabulary, I really don't.
- Frozen? - Yeah.
- Redone? - Yeah.
Do you need a knife? - I got one, here.
- [Brad] Everything's frozen.
- [Andrew] Yeah.
- [Dylan] Okay?
And then, essentially, Brad's the cameraman, okay?
- [Brad] Yeah.
- So, it's like this?
You're flipping me up, alright?
So on three.
One, two...
(laughter)
- That's sick.
So gross.
- That's the hamburger meat.
- We had to capture it.
- I'm glad that we practised that.
- [Brad] Uh, that was, we've gone and had enough.
With the clothes on!
(laughter)
Day Five, 8:15 in the morning.
Where are we off to?
- Morning, how are you?
You good?
- I'm good, man. - Yeah.
- Where are we going?
- We're going for the base camp.
- We're off to base camp.
- Okay, yeah.
- Feel good? - Yeah, good, how about you?
- I feel amazing. - No headache?
- Yeah, severe migraine.
I'm just joking, man.
- Yeah? - I'm fine.
I feel really good. - Okay, I see that.
- I feel really good.
(upbeat music)
Good? - Yeah, all is good.
- [Brad] How are you feeling?
Iron Man?
- [Brett] I'm so happy right now.
I'm so happy. - Lion King.
- Lion King?
(laughter)
- Standing up on the rock.
- [Brett] How are you doing?
- Did you find your Nala?
- My what? - Your Nala?
- Oh, I found Nala. - Where's Nala?
- She ran away.
- Well, because you're too fast for her.
That's the direction we've come from.
The porters are coming up here,
with 50 pounds on their heads.
And then our group is, I think down there.
Nim-bo, good job.
Good job.
- This is where I've come from.
That's the trail.
Alright, I'm going to put the binoculars on.
Stand by.
Follow the trail with me.
All the way back.
All the way.
That's the trail.
Alpine desert.
(soaring music)
Hey everybody.
9:30 in the morning.
And we are trekking up to base camp,
and right now, I feel pretty amazing.
Very puffed, though.
I feel like I'm breathing a lot more than what I need to,
given that I'm just kind of walking
at a really flat spot at the moment,
but the surroundings are very ethereal-looking,
with the mist passing through the valley,
and something that's quite unique and special
and not something that you see everyday.
My lips are super chapped.
It's a very incredible experience.
So, the rest of the guys are behind me.
Most of the guys are behind me in my group.
And Brett, Dylan, are sprinting up to base camp!
They're not really, they've slowed down a little bit.
They're about 20-30 metres in front of me.
So, I'll turn this camera around real quick so you can see
the mist moving up through the valley.
It's just incredible.
And there's no life up here.
There's no vegetation.
There's only like one or two birds.
We're at almost 14,000 feet.
Awesome experience.
(swelling music)
- [Brad] How do you feel?
- Good, I feel strong, ready.
- [Brad] Yeah?
- There's just no other place I'd rather be.
As cliché as that sounds.
It's freaking perfect.
- [Brad Newton] Do you feel like you feel at sea level?
- No.
- [Brad Newton] I'm speaking specifically to you.
You feel puffed?
- Not too puffed.
- Okay.
- You know, it's funny, man, if you just pace it,
I don't want to advocate pole-pole but
if you just pace it, it is easy man.
How do you feel?
Do you feel puffed?
- [Brad] It's funny, you know, if I increase my pace,
I feel puffed.
- Yeah.
- [Brad] But when I slow down a little bit and get a
rhythm going, I feel pretty good.
- That's what you're going to want to remember,
is just that rhythm.
- [Brad] Like, I feel puffed now.
- [Brett] I've been saying this the whole time.
(swelling music)
- It's 10:00 in the morning.
We're climbing up to base camp.
We've been trekking for two hours.
I'm not sure if you can see,
straight through that valley,
is the trail where we came from.
All the way, if you follow my finger, through there,
in the mist moving across.
And somewhere up there, is the summit.
And we're climbing up this way.
That way.
(happy music)
Pulling into base camp now.
There's Dylan.
Brett.
Hey guys.
Did you just come off the summit, or?
- [Woman] Yeah.
- How was it?
- [Woman] Oh, it was amazing.
- Yeah?
- [Woman] It was mentally challenging,
- Yeah?
- [Woman] as well as physically challenging.
- Yeah?
- [Woman] (laughs) Yeah.
- Was it windy up there?
- [Woman] Yeah.
But it was an experience of a lifetime.
- Wow, incredible.
10:45 in the morning, day six,
I'm at base camp Christmas Eve.
And a cloud has just moved through, brought with it
some little pellets, so it's actually raining hail pellets.
I'm not sure if you can see them bouncing off me right now.
Clearly above the freezing level, so when that cloud
rolled through right now as you can see,
it's so misty right here, and it's freezing cold.
The rain pellets started to fall.
I'm not sure if you can see that on the ground.
They're tiny.
Oh, the rest of the group have rocked up right now.
Right there.
Welcome to base camp!
- [Hiker] Whoo!
- I'll continue this in a minute.
It's starting to clear up over there.
(upbeat music)
Good job, man.
Good job.
- Hey, Raymond!
It feels like I haven't seen you in years.
- [Brad] Raymond in the house!
How are you, man?
- [Raymond] Good, good.
- [Brad] Do you want to help?
- [Raymond] So, everyone's still okay?
- Yeah. - Feel good?
Ready for the final ascending?
- [Man With Glasses] Well, that can't be right.
- I think so. - Just relax.
- [Man With Glasses] Well, I am relaxed,
but that can't be right.
87/135.
- [Brad] (laughs) Oh, shit.
- [Woman] Take a few deep breaths.
- [Man With Glasses] No no no, we just asked the (mumbles)
because we were like, struggling for breath while laughing.
- [Brad] 96/77.
97.
- [Brett] Your best numbers yet!
- [Man With Glasses] Yes!
- [Brad] What's the surprise, is this the surprise?
- [Raymond] Potato stew.
- [Brad] Oh, that looks alright.
- [Man] Oh, that's a different colour than normal!
- [Brad] That looks alright, man.
- This is potato stew.
- [Brad] I'll eat that.
Would you eat that?
- [Dylan] I don't think so.
- [Brad] Why not?
- [Man] That is a big surprise.
- [Dylan] I normally would, but it wouldn't taste the same.
- [Raymond] Potato stew and vegetables.
- [Brad] Oh, wow!
This looks real good.
(laughter)
- [Dylan] This is mine, all potatoes, yeah yeah yeah.
Perfect, yep.
Make it a surprise.
- [Raymond] Mm-hmm.
- [Dylan] Oh, what?!
- (laughs) Oy!
Oy, that was a surprise!
Alright, it's 1:43 in the afternoon, Friday,
I mean Sunday, day six.
We're at base camp.
We're going to make the summit.
Waking up around midnight tonight,
but the schedule is a little bit more detailed than that.
What time is it now?
1:45.
We're going to go to sleep now, wake up at five,
get a health check, have dinner at six,
then go back to bed, and wake up again,
10, 10:30.
And then, we're gonna leave for the summit at around 11,
11:30, 12, something like that.
And it's fucking freezing.
But this is gonna be very, very hard,
I can feel it already.
Freezing cold.
I'm going back to my tent.
That's an update for you.
We're going to make the summit.
We're going to do this.
Goodbye.
Hey guys, it's almost 2:00 p.m.,
day six, summit night.
It's snowing outside.
Check this out.
(energetic music)