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God, can Your can for your day. Have you seen his veining foxy?
>> Yes, it's a variety of nardo status jackamantis.
>> An uncatalog variety.
>> Dr. here is refreshment.
>> Oh, that's kind of you.
>> Are you too absorbed in what I have shown you?
Absorbed indeed, sir.
>> These are wild.
>> I thought I knew every type of plant in these mountains, but they
>> these plants we employ to cure sickness of the skin.
>> And where does it go?
>> The monks go in parties to seek all these plants. They take many days.
>> Can they show me?
>> Now is not the time. Soon the heavy snows will come and the will be dangerous.
>> Oh,
>> hey. Hey, what you need?
>> But these are your medicines. We have great stores of all these herbs.
>> You can really spare them.
>> Take what you wish now. Then you will have every speech.
>> Species?
>> Species? It's a long time since I have studied your language.
>> The research foundation will be greatly in your debt, sir.
>> Mr. Fox, you do not drink your tea.
>> Oh, I do. Well, I mean, I will. Um, actually, I think I'll go and collect some jars to put these in.
>> It will be cold. Well, really I I quite like it. Cole, excuse me.
>> Mr. Fox doesn't enjoy tea made in our fashion. To him, I think it still seems bitter, greasy, and unpleasant. But you,
>> I've grown to enjoy it.
>> And your wife, she also enjoys it.
>> Well, she's working on it. She's a brave person to come here at all. She cannot be comfortable in those poor quarters I have provided. This is a hard rough place built for men.
>> You'll be very good to us, sir.
>> Tell me, Dr. Rison, you are content with this land, with the people, with our customs.
>> I think so. I know the Himalayas well through climbing and now this work.
>> You're a climber to the great peaks.
>> I was, but I had an accident. Stupid one, but a bad one, so I gave it up. Now your wife comes with you to make sure of that.
>> Helen comes with me as a colleague. We we work together.
>> And the other party who is coming. How long have you waited?
>> They're six days over.
>> Your wife, Dr. Alison, she knows they're coming. Coming to help you with your work.
>> Of course.
>> There will be little left for them to do now that your work is almost completed.
>> They want to see things for themselves. You permit.
>> The other men, they are also sent by your foundation. Are they not?
They are not.
>> You know something about them.
>> I know they will be here tonight. I have sent gues to meet them. You're not pleased.
>> Of course, this is wonderful news, but I had no idea they'd been seen.
>> They've not been seen, but they will be here in a few hours. Helen.
>> Yes.
>> Besid Jars, boy just made us a present. Pick of his collection of dried plants.
>> That's wonderful. Foxy. Does John know?
>> He's over there now waiting for jars.
>> And why this sudden generosity from the llama?
>> I don't know. But he wants to get rid of us. If so, I'm ready. Sooner we get out of here, out of this infernal country with its cold and bad smells and the superstition.
>> Take it easy, Foxy. Take it easy.
>> The misery and the ignorance and this awful awful cold
>> and the Tibetan tea.
>> I say, are you you busy?
>> Just a few diagrams to finish. Why?
>> Be an agent and take these over to John for me, will you?
>> Yes.
>> Then I can get on with the reindexing of the new specimens. Thanks a
>> Foxy.
>> I have another arm.
>> Of course. Sorry. I hope so. I can get a few more details about the is the approximate elevation at which they can be found.
>> What do you know about those men who are coming?
>> Know about them?
>> Well, not very much. I had a message from them suggesting we meet here.
>> From their leader, a man called friend.
>> That's right, Tom friend. You've heard of him?
>> He passes me before some months ago, but he did not come to me as his customary.
>> Perhaps he didn't wish to impose on me.
>> Now he returns. What is this man searching for?
>> Well, before I can say that, I must have a talk to him.
>> You can't say now.
>> Dr. Olison, why do you want to help these people?
>> I suppose for the pursuit of knowledge.
>> Whose knowledge? You alone?
>> All human knowledge.
>> Human knowledge. Is that reason enough?
>> I'm afraid we're taking up your time, sir. I don't know what's happened to Fox.
>> He's not coming. She's your wife. She's approaching now.
>> Well, how do you know this?
>> I've been hearing.
>> Is that all, sir?
>> Here, one develops a senses. All of them. There's time for an awareness of many things. Have you not found it, sir? They are okay. Come in. You're welcome, my dear lady.
>> Thank you. Foxy told me to bring you.
>> Oh, yes. Thank you. We were just being presented with some very remarkable new specimens.
>> Foxy told me
>> we have not met many times, Mrs. Rollison.
>> No, no, we haven't.
>> I've talked much to your husband, but not to you.
>> I'm sorry. I've I've had quite a lot of work to do.
>> I've been concerned for your comfort, but your husband reassures me.
>> Of course. I feel we've put you to a lot of
>> welcome to remain under my protection while your husband is on his climbing expedition.
>> Climbing
>> to the peaks. Now, unfortunately, my duties make this meeting also a short one. I must leave you now.
>> What climbing expedition, John?
>> That was deliberate. Guess I hadn't told her.
>> Well, for sake, tell me now.
>> Peron, I was going to explain to you before, but well, they may not have turned up. And it's a party led by a man named Friend. They should be here in a few hours.
>> And you'd arranged to go with him.
>> Professionally, Helen, please. No, please. There was no point in talking about it before. I hadn't even told Foxy.
>> Thanks. It's nice to be bracketed together.
>> Oh, no. You know, I didn't mean that.
>> What about the Botanical Foundation? Have you kept them in the dark, too?
This is nothing to do with the foundation.
>> Only that they they financed us here and they're waiting for our reports and we're already behind schedule.
>> I know that without being a boore about about loyalty and all. Don't you think we ought to get on with it?
>> Ellen, please try and understand.
>> I am trying. But at this time of the year with fresh snow falling to go pee climbing just
>> they may not even arrive.
>> Why did we come up here, John?
>> Why?
>> Right up here so far out of the way. It wasn't just to to search for rare plants. Was it? Was it, John?
>> No.
>> Somehow I knew, kept remembering the things you wrote once. I said nothing. I didn't want to remind you. I'd hoped you'd forgotten
>> your theories about the high valleys, about what might be there.
>> Listen, darling, you're getting upset about some work, John. I don't want you even to do this.
>> I can't bury it. John, I don't want to go into danger into the into the mountains to look for that creature. What's all this in aid of?
>> Oh, it's just one of their regular ceremonies.
>> Do you think they've chosen tonight on purpose?
>> Maybe.
>> Hey, come inside and shut the door. How'd you expect me to keep anything warm one of the walls?
>> How's it coming?
>> I'm fixing enough for an extra paw. Oh, there may be even more of them.
>> Hey, you're not going to ask me to feed his porters, too, are you?
>> An awful waste of food if they don't tell up.
>> You know something, Foxy? Nothing would give me more pleasure than to have to waste it.
>> They're here. Let me know how many
>> uh you the headman here. You speak English.
>> Where's our guide? Hey, Kosang. He's picking up the rear. Uh, you know Dr. Rollison Rollison.
>> Tom friends.
>> Oh, hi. Hey Kang.
>> And here mister.
>> Get the stores undercover. Take care of the ponies. Ah, is this our honor?
>> I don't know.
>> Hey, Jock, stick close. These guys will eat you.
>> Mr. Friend, I'm very glad to meet you.
>> Dr. Allison, I presume it's a great honor.
>> Oh, we've always given you up.
>> Now, we ran into a little bad weather.
>> We half expected you be gone.
>> This is Ed Shel.
>> Mr. Shel.
>> Hi.
>> And Jock, our photographer.
>> How do you do?
>> Oh, and this is Peter Fox, my assistant.
>> I hope you're all hungry. There's a banquet upstairs. Beef stew.
>> Lead me to it. I can eat a yak.
>> I'd better warn you about Ed's table manners.
>> Oh, and this is my wife, Helen, Tom, Friend, Mr. Shel, and Andrew.
>> Andrew McNe. Sorry.
>> How do you do? Well, there are four portions between three of you, so come on up, everybody.
>> Take that to work, MA'AM.
>> COME ON, JOHN. THIS IS HOME COOKING.
>> You didn't tell me about your wife.
>> Don't we always work together?
>> This is hardly a trip for a woman.
>> No, she stays here with Fox. I've already fixed that.
>> Well, fine, if I can't.
>> If you come, Dr. Odison, this is the This is the expedition that's not going to fail. We're going to find that creature they call the Yeti.
>> No. Yes. Can we stable under there? Under your living quarters?
>> That's what he was built for. Come on,
>> Chak.
>> We covered a lot of miles today. How many, Tom?
>> About 10.
>> 10? My feet says about a hundred. Over all the rockiest tracks in this stinking country. Ed here objects to the primitive. Come on, move over. Primitive? I don't know what's worst about it. The stink of everything or the ignorant natives or the or the filthy food they eat or what? You tell me.
>> I find this country rather attractive.
>> Attractive?
>> Oh, come on, Ed. Knock it off, will you?
>> Well, even what we're going to look for is abominable. Well, that's what they call it, isn't it? The abominable snowman.
>> It doesn't exist.
>> Helen, you don't subscribe to your husband's views, Mrs. Robinson?
>> No.
>> About what this creature might be?
>> No, I don't.
>> Neither do I.
>> Oh, skeptics right in camp, doctor. And when the whole evidence of these theories is based on a few footprints in the snow.
>> Have you ever seen these footprints, Mr. P?
>> I have not. I have well on the Rakaposhi Glacier with a climbing party two years ago. I I found a line of fresh footprints like human ones only bigger and far broader. You didn't see what made them. I I followed them for a mile or so and then they they finished on a bare rock face. It was it was just long enough to get a sense of what I might be tracking.
>> You're an impressionable man, Mr. McNeely.
>> Well, this is the sort of impression you don't want to forget.
>> Also, there have been photographs, Mrs. Rollison. 1951 Shipton expedition took pictures of similar footprints. They were published in the Times.
>> They could have been made by a bear,
>> but they weren't.
>> Look, in your message, you said something about having special evidence. So, this seems to be a good time to produce it.
>> H, this came into my possession a short time ago. Solid silver native craftsmanship. Maybe you can read what it says around there. Translate it. The protection of the the great chamber the powerful beings is besought by the llama of Ranguk. This monastery.
>> That's right. This was stolen from here some years ago by a German explorer. the powerful beings. That probably means local gods.
>> Now watch the ornamentation hides the join, but it finally does unscrew. And you see
>> tooth. Ah, in the Middle Ages, it was a usual thing to preserve bits of tooth and bones from the bodies of saints. That's what that is, a a relic. But of course, you'd know more about that, doctor.
>> It's unbelievable. The size of it seems to be genuine. It is. I had it sectioned and tested.
>> It's like the canine tooth of an ape, say a gorilla.
>> Yes, it's about three times as big.
>> Let me see.
>> Uh, I've read your views, doctor, on the possible size and bone structure of these creatures. That would fit, wouldn't it?
>> Yes, it would. It's not a fossil.
>> It's living ivory. Hey, what's this? A war dance? These people are Buddhists. They don't believe in war.
>> Holy men doing a holy dance. Hey, THIS IS GOOD. JO, GET A PICTURE.
>> THEY don't allow it. You sure they don't mean trouble? You can take my word for it.
>> Yeah. Well, I hope you're right.
>> I got my responsibilities. I don't want to find one of my porters knife.
>> Look, friend, religion forbidden to harm anyone or anything.
>> Okay, just so they know it. How about some more stew? Here, give me your
>> Just a minute. Did I hear right? You're not taking the porters with you.
>> Not beyond this point.
>> You're doing this climb alone? There's just the five of us.
>> You better tell us your plans.
>> Well, so far, no expedition's ever gotten near this thing they call a yeti. You know why? Cuz we're tramping up to the peaks with 50 or 60 porters behind them like an invading army. It's enough to scare off any living creature. We don't want that.
>> So, there'll be just the five of us.
>> And what do we live on vitamin pills?
>> Tell him, Tom.
>> We've been up here before, Ed and I, last summer.
>> Yes, I heard that.
>> Took 50 men loaded to the limit up the north valley. Salted away supplies and stores in places where they'd be safe from the snows, rock caves, and so on. all along the route.
>> And you think these supplies will still be there with 50 men sharing the secret?
>> They don't. We took turns. One of them marched them on while the other stayed behind and hid the the batch that they just unloaded
>> single-handed. It was murder. But we did it. The North Valley.
>> It's the steepest, the crookedest, and blocked by the worst ice falls you ever saw.
>> Like the mountains of the moon.
>> If I were a creature that wanted to lurk away from man, that's where I'd lurk.
>> John, this is completely irresponsible without porters without a guide.
>> Uh, correction, ma'am. We are taking along one local guide, Nema Kusang. You saw him down below. one guide. And how did he he qualify for this unique position?
>> Because he's seen a yeti, ma'am.
>> He's seen one.
>> This is the time to do it, Doc Winter. But the heavy snow's forcing anything is up there down valley for food, right? It's going to be tough going. We know that. We can use an expert climber and a scientist in a double capacity. We need you with us. What do you say, Doc?
>> Yes, John. What do you say? I'd like to show this to someone first.
>> Who's that?
>> The person who seems to be his rightful owner. The llama.
>> Whatever you say.
>> Now, keep the food. Huh?
>> I'll come too.
>> How long does this go on?
>> Sometimes several hours.
>> Put that away, John. Yes, I know this. It was taken from here many years ago. However you came by it, Mr. Friend, I'm grateful you return it now.
>> I'm happy to do so, sir. You uh you know it opens then.
>> The carved tooth.
>> Carved. It was made, so I have heard by a monk in the far distant time. It was meant to be a tooth of the god man July, the all powerful
>> was made.
>> Did you think it was a real tooth?
>> We thought perhaps it was.
>> You men of the west. You are driven by curiosity. You would risk your lives in in those waste and ice and coldness to search for this animal.
>> He's known all the time. This animal you only imagine to exist. You also think it doesn't exist.
>> Look, Rison, you've made no contract. You're under no obligation to go up there with us tomorrow when we leave here. But we're going. And if it's humanly possible, we're going to find that creature.
>> I'll come.
>> Don't worry. He'll be all right. We'll look after him. He'll be just
>> Behalf of my party and myself like to thank you for your hospitality. Small return, Mr. Frank, for this.
>> Okay. Emergency rations packed and checked. What's next?
>> Snow Krampons.
>> Krampons. KUSANG'S GETTING THEM. KUSANG. CHUCK POCHE. HERE, watch these guys. They got a greedy look.
>> No, I don't think so.
>> Just watch them, that's all. Come on, give us that.
>> Hey, Kang. Did you talk to the other porters?
>> Yes, mister. They want paid now. They'll get paid when we get back. Uh, how come we only got three packs?
>> Rollison says he's got his own gear.
>> Goodbye, Foxy. Look after her.
>> I will.
>> See you soon.
>> Well, I better get back to those reports.
>> Foxy disapproves.
>> You'd better bracket us together again.
>> No, I thought we said
>> I know, John, but but it's those men, friend and Shel. I don't trust them. I don't like them.
You're just grabbing at straws now.
>> No, I mean this, John.
>> Listen, friend talks too much of greed and Shelley could use a few manners. All right, I snore. They'll be the ones to suffer.
>> Don't joke about it, John.
>> Helen D. Look, you do understand. I've written and talked enough about this thing. Now I've got a chance to put it all to the test. I've just got to take it, haven't I? Come on now. Give me a hand with this. John, for the last time, I'm asking you, don't go.
>> Look,
>> you won't come back. I note I'll never see you again.
>> Hey, Doc. Kosang, come on. We got to move.
>> Be careful, my darling. Be careful.
>> I can look after myself. You know that. Madison Kusang Chakshai. Hey, Tom. Wait a minute. We got to keep this pace up.
>> We got to make that hut before nightfall.
>> And we went an easier way last time. over those ridges.
>> This time of year, they're all snowed up.
>> Yeah. Well, look at those characters. They seem to be doing all right.
>> Yeah. Well, they're not going where we're going. You all right, Doc? So, file.
>> Well, let's keep moving. Nice and steady.
>> Yeah. Get a rhythm. Maybe we ought to sing or something.
>> Yeah, you do that.
>> Sing.
>> John Brown's body.
>> Come on, sing.
>> John Brown's body in the grave. John Brown's body in the grave. John's body.
>> There is a tavern in the town. In the town. Save your breath, will you?
>> We're making good time, ain't we? Damn it. Wait. Really? Start to climb.
>> Come on, Ed. We got to keep this pace up.
>> Why pick ON ME? WHAT ABOUT LEADOOT?
>> YEAH, him I can do without you. I need it.
>> Let's stop Victory. We've got less than 2 hours till sunset. We've got to be on a safe campsite by then.
>> Now, we get the hut, we'll be all right.
>> Where exactly is this hut?
>> Over that ridge.
>> There's a lot of rough weather coming up. We never make it the time unless
>> there is a shortcut.
>> Where?
>> Across the car on that side.
>> It looks awful steep. Well, let's give it a try.
>> You're the prize climber in this party, Doc. Why don't you take over?
>> All right, everybody. Rope up. We need it from here.
>> Rope. It'll be a short sharp line.
>> As long as it's short.
>> Fairly short as these things go. You'd better take the middle position for safety.
>> I like safety too, Doc.
>> And we'll be all right if we keep our minds on what we're doing.
>> Well, let's get roped up and get on with it.
>> Chuck Pche, you first.
>> Let's get going, Doc. COME ON, ED. OKAY, WE'RE COMING.
>> HEY, JOCK. SPREAD OUT. DON'T CROWD THEM. AVALANCHE.
>> What happened?
>> NOTHING. JUST SOME SMALL STUFF CAME DOWN.
>> For a minute there, I thought we had an avalanche starting.
>> And it might have been it was his point yelling like that.
>> Crazy.
>> No, he isn't. A sharp sound, sudden vibration. That's all it takes. So, let's have no more shouting unless it's vital.
>> Right. You got that, Ed.
>> Okay. Okay.
>> Come on. Let's go. Hey, I can't get Hey, There it is. The hut.
>> Ah, there's nothing else in here, Tom. It was all sealed in these containers.
>> Now, fill a hole up again.
>> Fill it up. The yak herds will be up this spring and think the earth devils have been burrowing. Go ahead and fill it up. You want to scare these poor ignorant natives to debt? You're a civilized man.
>> All right, tomorrow.
>> If this is the way you planned the rest of the trip, cautious under the floor.
>> You wouldn't get a meal like this out of an emergency pack. Who's for more?
>> Not for me, thanks.
>> Thought altitude was supposed to make you hungry, could I?
>> Do you talk about this as if it was a joke? Have you seriously considered what might happen? Look, Doc, I've been running into people all my life who cried off because what might happen if I went ahead and did it. And now for some fact. I got some real supplies cashed up ahead. This was just a a snack on the way up. And
>> what else have you got cashed away up there besides food?
>> Everything we need from tents to fuel. Look, 18,000 ft. We'll stop and make our first camp and search at the foot of the ice fall. 20,000 ft. The same procedure. And again at 22,000 ft. And we've got oxygen if we have to go higher. We've got everything we need to get up above this creature, search it out in its own ground, and track it down. Now, how about some more of your contribution?
>> Such as
>> expert advice. Uh, let's know the nature of the enemy. What's it live on?
>> More smaller animals, hairs, mice, bowls.
>> But we've seen none.
>> Oh, you don't see them. But he's right. They're there.
>> Can never h needn't be. Better roots and plants under the snow, too. is probably fairly adaptable like man.
>> Man, what you're suggesting roughly is that this might be some kind of a missing link.
>> That's a bit too rough. Say parallel development, my wish you
>> parallel with mankind. We're not very far north of India. Now, some millions of years ago, that was the breeding ground of huge ape-like animals, primitive anthropoids. They're fossil bones that dug up from time to time. Now the latest evolutionary theory is that their descendants branched off in two directions. One to become the great apes, chimpanzees, orangutang and so on, and the other man.
>> Yeah, Darwin's theory all tidied up. So
>> well, suppose suppose there were a third line of descent to point X as different from man as the apes are.
>> Probably calls for some very fancy guesswork.
>> But what would have happened to them? gradual extinction through changing conditions, attacks of enemies
>> might include both a men.
>> Most likely did until only a remnant survived, adapting themselves to living where nothing else would. In these mountains, the highest in the world and above the snow line.
>> There's no proof of all this.
>> Well, not yet. But 100 years ago, there was no proof that primitive man had ever existed either.
>> Look, how do you see it? I mean, it walks on two legs.
>> There's no doubt about that. The tracks prove it. They show a foot 13 in long and very wide indeed. the stride of a six-foot man. Yet his legs would be far more massive and very short in proportion to its height. Now you you see what that implies.
>> It's big.
>> Perhaps seven or eight feet high.
>> What do you think, Ed?
>> Well, can try.
>> Go on and drag it out. Good time is
>> I'm not with you.
>> Well, we might as well let you in on our little secret, Doc. Fact of the matter is that Ed here is an expert trapper. Everything from foxies to grizzlies. Now, this is a tungsten steel net. It's just a little sample. You think it'll hold it?
>> Oh, if not, we have other things up there. Much things. More guns. So, that's what this is, a hunting party.
>> What did you expect us to do? Look at it through a telescope. Have Have Jock here take a picture? Camera? Bonafide investigation?
>> It is bonafide. I want one alive. And so do you.
>> What are your interests? Commercial?
>> Well, if they are, they're honest.
>> Then why all the secrecy
>> for a thing just like this outraged indignation? And I wanted to be well underway.
>> Listen, what is it?
>> I was certain I heard something, but you were talking so loudly
>> outside. What?
>> A sort of cry. See anything? Keep the voices down. Look at the snow. You sure? Quiet. It's nothing.
>> But I'm sure I heard something.
>> Any of the rest of you heard anything, Kuzanne? No. No. It's false alarm. Jock, you need some sleep. We all do. Come on.
>> I'm sorry I broke out at you like that just now.
>> We're all a bit on edge. Maybe on the altitude.
>> Yeah. Well, I think I ought to explain. Frankly, I am. And this is a commercial venture, but I I don't think that cheapens my motives in any way.
>> What's at the end of the line? A circus? A zoo?
>> No, me too.
>> Thanks. Look, I'm not exactly a golden character, Doc. After the war, I did a little smuggling around the coasts of Europe. Odd gun for the angry little countries. I lived on two of the basic drives of humanity, fear and hunger. When he began to dry up on me, I I looked around for another one. Found curiosity. Human curiosity. Funny thing. You ever think about it?
>> Well, I suppose I suffered under it.
>> Look, the world is full of receptive, inquisitive people. People who are informed, responsive to new ideas. The radio, television, films. These things have gone to the very homes of the people that stirred up a a healthy curiosity about the earth that they live on. These are the people I work for. If I can, I'm going to bring them one of these creatures. They can learn and profit from it.
>> You really believe all that?
>> Sure I do, Doc.
>> They give the world a whole new concept, a new slant on humanity. Help us to know and understand ourselves better. Don't you don't you think that's important? You'll appear with this creature, show it on television and so on. Those are the means. I'll use them. Look, don't you understand? Dr. Rollison. Writing learned little books in the corner isn't enough anymore. It's a new age of awareness. It's a big age. You got to measure up to it. Doc, you'll better get some sleep. You got an early start.
>> Yeah, well, you think about it. FOXY. FOXY. Now watch the match.
>> All right. You get paid when Sy COMES BACK NOW. SHUT UP
>> NOW. GO ON. GO ON.
>> It's all right. Only friends porters. Apparently they haven't been paid. Gave you a bit of a shot. Now you sit down there. Have a spot of this. Make feel much better.
>> Why do you suppose he didn't pay them, Foxy?
>> Oh, just make sure they're here when he comes back. It's customary and reasonable.
>> Then why do they suddenly behave like that?
>> Well, you know what they They've got nothing to do. They stand about and chatter and argue and work themselves up. Drink this.
>> Was that all?
>> What do you mean?
>> It's as if they knew something. As if they knew friend wasn't coming back or John or any of the pottery. They're going to die and everybody in this place knows.
>> Now stop it, Helen. You're talking raving nonsense. Now come on, drink this. You didn't sleep last night, did you? I'll make sure you do in future. You take some tablets.
>> Lay the whole night just thinking. I never felt so lonely. Now and then I heard a gong across the courtyard and the wind. Foxy, you know these things these people believe in. Clairvoyance, thought transference.
>> Sham magic.
>> Is it sham?
>> Hell in this country is rotten with superstition. It's only dangerous because we're surrounded by people who think it's real. Well, we can slide into thinking it's real, too. Now, come on, drink that up. You feel much better. To make sure you're not pursued by the lands of the village again, I think I'll go and have a word with the llama.
>> It's a good idea. I'll come to
>> you. Stay right there. And if you should feel like another nipp of that, nobody's going to call you a tipler. Anyone there? Sir, sir. Huh? Heat. They're practically out of sight now. Yes, I'm going well, too.
>> How much longer will this take?
>> I found what I wanted. Evidence of a possible food supply. Type of moss. Highly nutritious.
>> You mean it's food?
>> It might be.
>> Look, let's go on. I don't want that swine to get too far out of sight.
>> You don't trust him,
>> dumb friend. No more than you do.
>> You're not a very good climb either. Why did you come on this trip like me? I had to. You had to. Ever since that time two years ago, I I felt that this is what what I must do. It's a It's a sort of obsession. Perhaps a psychologist could explain it. I don't know. All I know is that I've got to find the thing. Getting near to it before weted your appetite.
>> It's all that matters. I I applied to join all sorts of climbing expeditions, hoping I'd be able But I was turned down every time.
>> Then you heard about the Tom Trend expedition.
>> He wasn't so particular. I I paid him to let me come.
>> You paid him?
>> I I can be useful. I'm good with a camera,
>> but not so good with an iceax. A man like you could be dangerous.
>> No, I I'll try not to be.
>> Come on. Sorry. HELLO. OH,
>> HELLO. WHERE ARE YOU? HE SAID they'd pitch camp the ice for right in the middle of it now. They can't be far away.
>> HELLO.
>> Wait a minute. I thought I heard something. Bryce is ahead of us. ARE YOU THERE? Hello trap. A spring trap.
>> Get it open. Drive.
>> I can't. Let me fasten to the rock. HEY, GO SMASH THAT. It's valuable. Here. Here. Let me do that.
>> Did you set this?
>> What do you think?
>> Without warning us.
>> You want to put a flag on it or something? Did I knew you was COMING THIS WAY?
>> GET HIM FREE.
>> OKAY, get your foot out.
>> Oh, he's not hurt bad. This is my improvement on a bear trap. It grips but doesn't tear.
>> Didn't even bite through the boat.
>> Of all the idiotic maniac ideas. What do you hope to achieve setting these things at rest?
>> We've achieved it. Before you blow your top, doc, listen. It worked.
>> Worked.
>> We caught one of those things.
>> You You don't believe me? Well, come and look. Watch out. It's ice up here.
>> Give a hand here.
>> We found these little tracks. See? So, I set traps on the chance whatever made them might come back.
>> THE OLD TRACKS?
>> YEAH. YOU WAIT AND SEE.
>> HEY, TOM. THEY'RE HERE.
>> Good thing. Throw me that top one. finally made it, huh? I couldn't wait on you. There it is.
>> Not very big, is it, Doc? Not more than 4 ft high. But good thing has no doubts. Cos tell him what it is.
>> Yety.
>> Same as you saw before.
>> Same.
>> That's the expert, Doc. Guess maybe you might have made a mistake, huh? Just get it covered.
>> Let it go.
>> What do you mean let it go?
>> That's a Lango. Himalayan monkey. You'll find him on the half of zoos of the world.
>> Kusen said,
>> "Forget about Kusang. He's never seen the creature we are looking for."
>> Yeti,
>> back it off, will you? Hurry up.
>> All your trapping's done is to practically remain one of our own men.
>> Yeah. He just had the treat him in here.
>> No, that's a that's a supply cash. Let's take him over to tent. Come on, Jock.
>> Come on. Like me.
>> You'll be all right.
>> Steady now. Cosang, tie him down. How is it?
>> Well, apart from the bleeding, it may be a cracked bone. Without an X-ray, I can't tell. Does that hurt?
>> Ed, are you sure you got the right station on there?
>> It should be. I'll fix it with him and give us a weather forecast, doc. Karikam Samwa and now short weather forecast in English for Himalayan climbing parties. First the Tom friend expedition in western Himalaya. You may expect occasional snow showers rising to blizzard force by tomorrow night. Further outlook heavy snow continuing. Next the van Seaman's expedition in eastern Sikkim.
>> Blizzards. That's all we need. We've got 24 hours. This man can't march tomorrow. It's out of the question.
>> Oh, Tom will dig out the sledge. You've got a sledge?
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah, but it's not for him. Well,
>> what's it for, then?
>> Listen, doc, this expedition cost a lot of money. I'm not going back empty-handed. That animal we got in a cage out there, you say some kind of a monkey?
>> Of course it is.
>> Well, that's the mysterious yeti or snowman. We proved it. Kusang here confirms it.
>> Meaning
>> meaning that from now on we sell that fact. I got to get that brute down to India. That particular verified specimen of the Yeti.
>> Sales promotion.
>> I can do it. I know how to handle it.
>> Sure, Tom. Like with Franchini that time. Genie case. Were you mixed up in that?
>> He doesn't know what he's talking about.
>> There's no Tom friend in it if I remember. How long have you used that?
>> I use what name I like is what case do you think you're talking about?
>> The Indian wolf children. Allegedly reared by wolves in the jungle, turn over half a world, then turn out to be plain mental defectives.
>> All right, that's what the people wanted.
>> Another new concept for humanity.
>> You're nothing but a cheap fairground trickster.
>> I DON'T LIKE YOUR RADIO. SHUT UP. WELL, that's taking care of the weather forecast.
>> It's a It's the altitude.
>> I don't know. It makes you lose control. I'm I'm sorry, Doc.
>> Forget it. How do you feel? Make me,
>> what's he hearing? Hush. Listen. The cage. GIVE ME A TORCH. YEAH. BRING SOME FLARES.
>> YEAH.
>> Come on. We may need you.
>> Look at the cage. It's all twisted.
>> It's gone. It's got away.
>> And the door. It's all wrenched off. I I just don't understand this.
>> Let's see. See if we can pick up the tracks.
>> Oh, the snow's all trampled about. Hey, what's this? Look, this is Jack. Hey, look at that. They're two different kinds.
>> Look at the size of it.
>> 15 16 in long.
>> There's no doubt about it. There was something else here, too.
>> Put that torch out.
>> Yeah. What are we going to do? Kind of follow it. Kang, get the rifles. Quick. Check. Watch. Quick. Get the rifles. What was that? Light the flare. There's something by the tentac. WAS IT YOU? KANG.
>> Hey Tom, look those big tracks all around you.
>> McNe, are you all right? What was it?
>> You okay?
>> I don't GIVE ME A GUN ON SOME OF THOSE FLARES. COME ON.
>> NOTHING.
>> YEAH.
>> What it look like? What do you see? Kusang, tell me.
>> I see. I see. But what men must not see. I see through THE EMPTY.
>> YOU made me see. Hey, come back. Come back. Go. Come back. Go. find him. No, but I found something else.
>> What's that?
>> Your trap's all broken apart.
>> Come on. Huh?
>> All right. Any sign of Kusang?
>> No. You can bet he's headed back home by now. Going down. It'll only take him a few hours.
>> He's nearly out of his mind.
>> Yeah. Well, he had good cause to be if he saw what did this. But with this and those footprints, you can get a pretty good idea of the weight of the thing that made him. Looks like you're right, Doc.
>> Partly, but don't forget the vital part. This creature may have an affinity of a man. Something in common with ourselves. Let's remember that before we start shooting.
>> Sure. Sure.
>> Is he getting delirious? I'm afraid.
>> You took care of his ankle.
>> I did what I could. This is in the hospital, and that's where he ought to be.
>> I'll give him another shot of dough.
>> No, he's had enough.
>> All right, McN. All right. Go to sleep, old boy. You're fine. McNe, did you hear what I said? McNe,
>> he's almost in the collision of trance.
>> Trans?
>> This is the way I found him out of the thing of being here.
>> What are you getting at?
>> I'm not sure.
>> You mean he's a affected by him in some way?
>> It's not impossible. If he were hyper sensitive to their presence,
>> their presence when he gets like this, they might be close.
>> It's only a wild guess. McNeme, the eyes. Mcne, he's in a complete state of trance. McNe, can you understand me? Can you hear me? McNe pulse. Tom, I think I THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE ON THE ICE. I GOT IT, TOM. I GOT IT. Careful to dead. So that's it really. It the abominable snowman. The size of that body looks like you underestimated Doc must be 10 ft maybe 11 ft high. Yeah, back to face. There's more of them.
>> They know. Listen, we got to get this thing back to camp. This we ought to be able to manage. Ed, get a rope in the sledge. Give me your gun. Right. LET'S GO. FOXY.
>> FOXY, wake up.
>> Oh, what's there?
>> The porter's come back.
>> Porter.
>> The one they took with him. The man named Kusang.
>> You must be dreaming.
>> No, I'm not. I saw him in the courtyard. He seemed exhausted and could hardly stand up. He's not there now. They took him away. He was there, Foxy. They took him through that door. I've got to know what this means. I'm going to see the llama.
>> Well, then you'll never see him at this hour. You'll Heat up here. Drink this. Drink it. You've been frightened. One of my servants found you wandering in the secret part of the building.
>> I was looking for you. Kusang's come back.
>> Kusang? The porter who went with my husband and the others. I saw him in the courtyard.
>> You're mistaken.
>> No, but I'm not mistaken. I saw him. I tell you, in the courtyard.
>> It was not Kusan.
>> But I swear to you,
>> stand for your husband.
>> He's in danger. I'm sure of it.
>> Danger? Yes, they are in danger. All of them from their own actions.
>> I don't understand you. But you've got to help me do something. Warn them. Bring them back.
>> I can do nothing.
>> Why? It is not possible to bend the destiny of men. The fate of your husband will be governed by his own nature.
>> Mr. Fox, you will conduct this lady back to her living quarters. I'm so sorry about this, sir. Come along.
>> Get me away from
>> Get me away from
>> Don't you realize the hopelessness of it?
>> We've got to try and find them, Foxy.
>> There's no way of telling where they are by now.
>> Three or four native guides. We'll have a chance.
>> Native guides.
>> I'll tackle those porters down there.
>> You'll never persuade them to go. Not into those high valleys.
>> I think I can.
>> We're supposeding the llama forbids them to.
>> Listen, Foxy, they're waiting for money, aren't they? Well, I can give it to them. For heaven's sake, Ellen, you're not going to give them all that.
>> I'll give them everything I've got, Foxy.
>> All right. Well, let me handle it. We don't want to overdo it. There's one of them now. Where are the others? Where are the others? Well, call them for me. Call them.
>> All right. All right. And I want money. All right. Now, wait, wait, wait.
>> Hey, Doc.
>> Hawk the Herald Angels.
>> What's the matter now?
>> DOC, COME DOWN HERE.
>> I'LL COME WHEN I CAN.
>> NOISY. We're transferring to the cave. It'll give us protection against heavy snow.
>> Don't tell me friend's delaying here from my
>> Oh, no. No. He's not satisfied with the bag so far. In a couple of days, this photo of yours should be usable.
>> Thanks to you.
>> Tell me, what does it look like?
>> A dead one?
>> Uh-huh.
>> Well, you'll see. Bears out a lot of my guesses.
>> It's massive and it height is about 10'5 in. Weight 650 lb. It age is difficult to assess.
>> No, that's not what I mean.
>> Didn't you see what it looked like?
>> The face? Yes. Well, there's nothing like about it. There's nothing human either, but I felt it had going on. Go on.
>> A sadness. And there's probably only a surface resemblance at wisdom.
>> We need you down here.
>> How's it feel? Better. Try and ease that boot on slowly and I'll take these packs down and come back to you. Hold it there a minute. Right. Come around this side. See if we can get a little more purchase. Okay.
>> Well, I'll get you down there now. Magny. What is it?
>> He's gone.
>> Gone.
>> Without this house. Up there. Look. Watch out. He must have hit a rock. It would be instantaneous.
>> They killed him. Was the sound of that Howland?
>> He couldn't stand it. It drove him mad.
>> He fell because his foot was useless.
>> They killed him. Ed, you all right? What happened? I just got to it. The gun to I just got TO IT. ANOTHER CHECK. WHAT HAPPENED? They came at me. Two of them. You just don't know what IT'S LIKE. FIRST TWO IN THE LIGHT. THERE. HERE. THERE. Take a drink. But how did it happen? Take it easy and go on. Hey, I just came out of the cave and these two came running towards me. The size of them, YOU WOULDN'T CREDIT THE SPEED THAT THEY CAN MOVE. I GRABBED A GUN.
>> YEAH, I KNOW. AND YOU YOU BLASTED OFF ENOUGH to start an avalanche, BUT YOU MISS ME.
>> YEAH, IT WAS LIKE THIS. THE SUN WAS IN MY EYES AND I COULDN'T GET ORGANIZED.
>> TOM, they're after me. THEY KNOW IT WAS ME THAT DID IT LAST NIGHT. THEY'RE AFTER ALL OF US. THEY JUST KILLED MCNE.
>> WHY? It was the next of them.
>> It's me next. They know it was me. Ah, don't worry. I've had this before. Me and a grizzly once we ran a war nerd's a whole winner. I can HANDLE IT. BUT WE WANT TO ACT. THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO DO RIGHT NOW. HEY TOM, LET'S GET SOME ACTION. WHY DON'T WE JUST SIT AROUND? WE KNOW THEY'RE UP THERE. WHY DON'T WE GO UP THERE AND FIND THEM?
>> LOOK, KEN, I GOT AN IDEA. You've had a lot of tough assignments. Can you handle one more?
>> WELL, THAT'S WHAT I WANT. YAY! ACTION. CAN YOU RIG THAT steel net up in the roof of that cave?
>> Yeah, I guess so. sort of drop or anything that might go in there. Yeah, I can do that. What am I bringing the trap? Who does that?
>> Oh, I get it. I do. I'm in the back there acting as bait. Right.
>> Right. You're a character, Tom.
>> Ah, sure. I'll do it. I told you that's what I wanted. Let's get TO WORK WHILE THEY STILL GOT ME IN MIND.
>> YEAH, let's get it cleared. Give me a spade. Ah, here's one. What do you want a spade for?
>> Oh, yeah. Jock. Foxy. Foxy food container. They've been here. We must go
on. >> You damn well. Now come in. We're going to camp here. Joce, listen. The slightest encouragement they'll all deserve. And this time, you'll never get them back. Hey, Ky Ganga. You >> Tom, it's all fixed. Come and look. >> Right. Well, there she is. One pull on this and the whole thing comes down. I'm sure it'll work. >> I've tested and tried. Nice work, A Doc. >> You know my feelings. I don't like the idea. Your part in it least of all. If you want my advice, >> listen, doc, he doesn't need your advice. He can pull out anytime he wants. Who wants to pull out? >> Business, of course, without the thought. When the risk can't be calculated, >> thing falls, anything underneath it'll be fully occupied. That's tungsten steel with a breaking strain of 20,000 lb. More it struggles, the more the whole thing tightens on it. In addition to which, there you are, Ed, clean and loaded. >> Thanks, Tom. Just in case I should need it. >> Just in case. >> Ah, you can trust me. >> I am trusting you with this unique specimen when it shows up. It's beginning to snow out there again. Listen, Edward, we keep you covered from the tent. Check every half hour. But moment anything happens, you signal. >> You bet I'll signal, >> right? >> This is complete madness, friend. And you know it. >> Relax, will you? He knows how to hold his fire. It's getting thicker. >> You can't see the cave. >> So far, >> you better call it off. >> Call it off. The snow may be just a thing I'm waiting for. >> That man's depending on him. If he gets in trouble, I'm going to help him. Don't worry, friend. >> Why not settle for the one we've got? >> I've said no. >> You've cracked the mystery. You prove the creature exists. Settle for that. >> Take back a deadline >> if we can. >> Uh-uh. Have them pickle it and write out learned reports. Stick a skeleton in a museum and call it something other. >> I'm not looking for credit. >> No, not going to be like that. He's mine. >> Like the famous wolf children. >> Just the opposite. This is no fake. That's why I'm not going to give up. I'm going to prove to him I can bring back the real thing. You can't drag this down to a personal level. It's far too important. But >> to me, >> listen. There's a warning on the creature. It's strong, intelligent, may have powers we haven't even developed. It might have inherited the Earth. Something went wrong. And here it is, the last vestage of a species, hiding away, but nothing else will live. Waiting in misery and despair for final extinction. I don't have to point the moral. >> Look, if they drop the H bomb, your your descendants, too, may wind up in the ice. Did you see anything? I thought no. What's is that a cigarette? STOP. It's okay. We're coming. >> Stop. I can't SEE A THING. ROBINSON, KEEP TOGETHER. There it is. Rip to pieces. dead. He's dead. >> Dead? Well, but how did they kill him? >> I can't find any, Mark. It looks like a heart attack. His >> face. I think he died from shock. >> He didn't lose the gun. Why? >> Here, just a minute. Magazine's empty. That's strange. Each shell's been struck by the firing. They didn't go off. They didn't go off, friend. You loaded the gun. What with dummy ammunition? >> I didn't want another dead one. >> I knew he'd fire even if the net held. He was scared. >> Where have they been at this? Your gun must have frightened them off. I think this was all they want. >> You mean they weren't after Ed? No, >> but they killed him. >> No, they didn't. James, >> you did You think that'll stop him? >> They'll give us a fighting chance if they decide to attack. >> If they do. You think they won't, huh? Let me tell you something. I'm not going to take any chances on losing that one. I'm going to do like you said, Doc. Be satisfied with the one we got. That decision's a little late. >> It's cold in here. You want a drink back? >> No. No thanks. >> Yeah. We got to keep alert. Keep our circulation up. Be ready for him. Get hit the first time, there may not be a second chance. >> It's on your mind. >> I wonder what they try. >> Try. >> They know you've got a gun and what it can do. >> They knew Ed had a gun. That didn't stop him. >> But they knew. You knew about Sher's gun. You mean they could fat transfers? Oh, don't give me that. Let's get something straight, Doc. These are animals, dangerous killers, and that's all they are. >> McNe died from an accident. Shel died of his own fear. It isn't what's out there that's dangerous so much as what's in us. What are you doing there? Wondering. Wondering how old that face is. It's seen a long life. Longer than ours, I should say. 100 years perhaps more. This isn't the face of a savage thing. There's there's gentleness. >> Gentleness. >> Suppose they're not just a a pitiable remnant waiting to die out. They're waiting, yes, but waiting for us to go. >> For mankind to die out. >> It was something the llama said about taking thoughtful man's successes. I didn't understand then. But suppose we are the savages. >> We're what? Are you out of your mind, Doc? >> Perhaps for them we've been in the dark ages. Flattered ourselves too long. Perhaps we are not homo sapiens thinking man. What has our thinking brought us to? But homoestastians man the destroyer. When the world knows about these creatures, they're destroyed, too. Of course, we're men. We can only be here to destroy them. They must be aware of that. >> You mean we're the enemy? Huh? >> If they can deal with us, the secret's kept. It's their only chance of survival. >> Up here on the ice. Survival for what? >> It's enough until perhaps their time comes. >> Doc, you better have a drink. >> We better have something to eat. >> Yeah, it's a good idea. Then we'll take turns on watch. Throw me something in one of those self-heating cans, will you? Like living inside of an iceberg here. >> One soup coming up. And now short weather forecasts in English for Himalayan climbing party. First, the Tom friend expedition in the western Himalaya. You are warned to return to base immediately, abandoning all gear. I repeat, abandon all gear and return. >> Friend, where's the radio? >> Over there. It's all smashed up. smashed. >> If you're thinking of trying to fix it, you can forget it. It's had it. >> But didn't you hear? >> Here? What? >> I told you that thing is right. >> Friends, we must get out of here. >> What's the matter WITH YOU? >> SO, STOP. >> WE'RE GOING TO GET OUT OF HERE WHEN IT'S DAYLIGHT, NOT BEFORE. WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU? You cracking up? >> Maybe that's it. Talked about altitude sickness. >> Yeah. We'll uh go get some oxygen right over there. >> Yes. >> Go ahead. Just turn the tap. It's all ready for use. >> I'll use you going sick on me. Won't be easy managing that sledge tomorrow. All that new snow bound to make it unstable. Feeling better. It's going to be tough going. We'll just have to get out of the middle of the glass here and and just keep going. That's all. Keep going. >> Ed, help me. Help me. What's the matter with you? Did you hear that? >> What can you hear? >> Sad. I can hear him YELLING OUT THERE. THEY GOT HIM. >> STAY HERE. WAIT. >> ED, I CAN HEAR YOU. >> YOU'VE GOT TO UNDERSTAND THAT ISN'T SHELLY. IT ISN'T ANYBODY. >> I CAN HEAR HIS VOICE. >> IT'S IN YOUR OWN MIND. IT'S JUST HAPPENED TO ME, TOO. >> I GOT TO SAVE HIM. >> LISTEN, SHEL'S DEAD. >> NO. YOU KNOW THAT'S A MISTAKE. >> YOU GOT TO UNDERSTAND FRIEND. Ed I don't understand. ED, WHERE ARE YOU? ED, I'm here. I CAME TO HELP YOU THIS TIME. I MADE IT. DON'T USE THE GUN. THE SNOW. The snow. HEY, I CAN'T SEE YOU. STOP FIGHTING. Come back. Fire. Come back. It's an avalanche. Get on the cover. Heat. Heat. Hey. Friend, friend, friend. Pray. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Helen. Hey, wake up. Grab one of these. Follow me. Come on. Hold up. Heat up here. JOHN. I hate adore. >> I'm sorry. This has been for you a severe trial. All your companions dead in all these accidents. And with all the sufferings, you did not find what you went out to seek. >> I'm afraid I was wrong. >> Wrong. What I was looking for does not exist. >> You are certain of that. >> Yes. There is no yeti. Heat. Heat.