What ladder?

And there were climbers on that summit ridge.

Remember, a seamount turns into an island when it hits the surface.

And a light from its summit Doth illumine me

The summit would be in the foreground.

Is this Crestview 51733?

A washedup drunken rummy who had nothing to live for against a career that was just reaching its prime.

I bet I can take that girl... inside of six months, put her on top of the ladder.

Has Oil Production Peaked?

So about seven years, eight years to reach your peak, and then gradually you fall off your peak, until you go back to the starting point.

I was on a high.

There's only one third as much oxygen at the summit as there is at sea level.

And this particular painting, I think, represents the pinnacle, the peak, of that clinical era.

You can see here some ferocious winds blowing snow way high off the summit.

OK, this is a view taken on the summit ridge itself.

This is on the way toward the summit, on that 1,500 foot bridge.

Finally your old apartment gave me some Crestview number.

It was on my fourth trip to Everest that a comet passed over the mountain. Hyakutake.

This event was seen as the pinnacle of the cold war, known as the Cuban missile crisis.

The peaks that don't come out of the water are the seamounts.

And probably the pinnacle for education is getting you to college.

that's what I thought until I came here.

It's the pinnacle, it's the final product that the universe has produced.

This is what in the infantry we used to call the military crest.

This is all you've got. You're very exposed on the summit ridge.

OK. Those climbers were up near the summit, along that summit ridge that you see up there, and I was down here in Camp Three.

But you'll notice we're not at the top of the mountain yet.

I have been to the mountain top, and I have seen the Promised Land.

So here are some climbers starting out for the summit on what's called the Triangular Face.

Near the summit, temperatures can be 40 degrees below zero.

And then Camp Four is the highest camp that's 3,000 feet short of the summit.

We can see our way now, clear to the top of that mountain.

I pop up the top, and there's a cupola.

That gives you an idea of just how severe things are near the summit.

Observatory Drive and Crest Place. Looks like housebreaking.

A guest bedroom, which has this dome with marble on it.

They're up at Camp Four, and you can see that there's wind blowing off the summit.

And this immediately cheers him up, as his courage is stimulated to rise to the occasion.

If you notice, the summit of Everest is black.

From here, it's about 1,500 feet up at a 30 degree angle to the summit.

When I reach the summit of a steep mountain in the middle of nowhere, I feel young, invincible, eternal.

Ogden Nash once wrote the camel has a single hump the dromedary two, or else the other way around. I'm never sure. Are you?

The rise continued, peaking in 1983 (68), 1985 (70) and 1988 (64).

A dome, one of these ten foot domes.

They tried to radio a message to Rob Hall, who was a superb climber stuck, sort of, with a weak climber up near the summit.