Name: Glory or Death: Climbing Mount Everest (Full Segment) | Real Sports w/ Bryant Gumbel | HBO
Uploaded: 2019-01-08T07:36:09.000Z
Duration: 20 min 44 s
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DAVID SCOTT: It's the highest point on Earth

and the most forbidding,  Nepal's Mount Everest.

But every spring,  hundreds of foreign tourists

arrive chasing a dream  to stand atop the world.

How many of the clients that you see coming to Everest

of the indigenous tribe  known as the Sherpas,

the men who make climbing  on Everest possible,

carrying the foreigners' luggage  up the mountain,

But it's also a job  that often kills them.

If something goes wrong, there's nothing you can do.

You just depend on your luck and then just go for it.

That makes the job of the Sherpa  per capita

at the staging point  for any Everest climb,

in one of the highest  and most remote communities

on the planet,  separated from civilization

they have virtually  no other options for work.

What percentage would you say would rather not be here,

-risking their lives? -Eighty to 90 percent, easy.

but you can see them find-- You'll find them here again now.

begin the moment  the Sherpas leave base camp

The long climb to the Everest summit starts

up that frozen glacier behind me called the Khumbu Icefall,

named for the massive blocks of ice perched overhead,

and poised to fall on climbers at any moment.

Time spent in the ice fall is borrowed time,

the more likely you are  to be buried alive.

You just think, like, "Yeah, you don't want to stop.

The way you get safely through the ice fall is you go fast.

an American cardiologist  and mountain climber,

came to Everest as a client  for the first time in 2014.

She remembers her first pass  through the ice fall.

where is it coming from, what's coming down on us?

Stuff is going to come down,  it happens every day,

and you just don't want to be at the wrong place

SCOTT: But foreign climbers  like Dr. Gallant

face only a fraction of the risk  of the Sherpas.

That's because the Sherpas  don't have to pass through

the icefall once or twice,  but up to 30 times,

back and forth  through this valley of death.

The Sherpas are forced to make  all those trips

Many pay to have their Sherpas  carry everything

-has to go through the icefall -Through the icefall.

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