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All right. i'm coming up this rope. i probably shouldn't be up here. taking out the screw. i probably should tell my guide i lost one of his ice screws. i can no longer feel my feet. >> this is where you find out how weak your left arm is. compared to your right. oh, man. >> but no turning back now. hell, i asked for this. asked to hang with real alpine adventurists. asked to taste their days of thin air and adrenaline, their nights of wine and glory. because some of them wonder how long this will last. they see the signs of a warming

Like we've done. the summit is actually in the clouds up there at the moment. they had nothing to actually adhere them to the ice. they had an ice ax. all they could use was basically their body weight to stop the wall. so if you would be falling on the right, i would be jumping on the left. that was the way to stop people on the mountain. >> wow. >> then later, they invented these ice screws. and with the hook, i grab the end of the rock. >> look at that. brilliant. man, you're like the french macgyver. macgyver. there is something therapeutic about being forced on focus on the little things.