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00:30Up over my shoulder is the summit of Everest. It's 29,028 feet, 8,848 meters. To move this many
00:40people around this high, it's never been done. But they really want to have that authenticity, and they're getting it.
00:47To think about an entire crew getting up there every morning and the logistics that it takes to do that
00:53is extraordinary. There are times where you have helicopters flying over from one unit to the next unit, transferring an
01:00actor to a stunt scene, or then bringing them back for something else, or bringing food to the second unit.
01:07It was a sight to behold.
01:10From a medical standpoint, getting you to the top of Everest is really about oxygen and the lack of it.
01:17The problem working in these environments at high altitude is the acute man's sickness. Headache, nausea, vomiting, that's when it's
01:25getting more serious. That's what they call moderate acute man's sickness.
01:28It was dangerous for going up to the memorial and going too high too fast and having altitude sickness. So
01:34you have a kangaroo guy sitting there and, you know, he's starting to feel like he has the most severe
01:38flu he's ever had.
01:39And you're trying to do another scene, but you don't even know your name because you're so altitude sick.
01:44You don't conquer a mountain. The mountain is something that you have to get to understand. You have to appreciate
01:51what's going on at any given time with the wind, with the amount of snow, how your own abilities and
01:59strengths at the time and the oxygen supplies and all of these things all come into play.
02:03There's no oxygen. Repeat. No O.
02:07You've never felt volume and scale like that anywhere else on Earth. It's just so big. It really is the
02:16equivalent of being on the moon. If you get into trouble, you are on your own.
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