02x32 - The Steve Campden Story

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Wow. I got so cold out there, I thought
my intestines had turned to icicles.

You want her to go?

It's no good, Major.

Now the five miles,
just don't be up to the wagon beds.

That bad, huh?

Yeah.

Sometimes you can't even follow the trail.

Glen,
if we have to win her over here, half

our stock will make it through the spring.

A lot of people won't either.

Although our other roads,
such as the old French drivers,

had a way of getting into the Green River
country.

Jim Bridges There's a pretty good trail.

Yeah, that was 30 years ago.

You got to hitch up a team of mountain
goats to get a wagon through there now.

Well, in the morning,
I'll go out and have a good look.

I think we can get through.

McCullough,

I make the decisions around here.

That's my job.
It's my job to find a trail.

Well, I said I'd take it over tonight.

Going someplace, McCullough?

Just going to have a look around.

Well, you're thinking
sort of a reconnaissance mission.

Which way you're going to reconnoiter?

South toward the Green River country.

Any objection?

Oh, I suppose not.

But you be back here before sundown
tomorrow. Here.

I won't be late.

If your guess is wrong.

You get word back to me before that?

No. Guess.

Oh. No. It's a calculated risk.

First principle of tactics from anybody.

What are you doing here
on a bloody hunting trip?

You know, climb some, sh**t
some great sport all round.

Learn this weather.

How well I know

you alone.

Oh, no.

We had guide porters, horses.

Oh, sure. Very impressive.

What happened to them?

They ran off in the middle of the night.

All right.

Tell me why. Afraid, I presume.

Right.

Of what?

The mountain, perhaps.

Big Steve?

Probably. Who's Big Steve?

Lord Stephen Camden.

Never heard of him.

Well, you know the type.

Climb the highest mountain.

sh**t the largest tiger.

May I say I'm.

Steve Camden, too.

No medals, though.

Just little Steve.

That's a family joke.

It's not very funny.

Maybe it's time you grow it.

Believe me, I tried

Big Steve, Huh?

Who are you?

I thought I was a good Samaritan,
but I'm beginning to think I'm a fool.

What are you doing here?

I ride scout for a wagon train.

Far off trail, aren't you?

The South Pass is snowed in.

I'm headed for the Green River country.

Look for yourself,

McCullough.

Nothing personal, McCullough.

I've been robbed once in this country.

Like a burned child.

I like to profit from experience.

Forget it.

You know this country, McCullough.

Nobody knows it.

I've been through it.

You won't get through it now.

Is blocked by an avalanche.

How far up. My lord. So.

Where are you headed?

Parody of penitentiary.

The Spaniards call it repentance, Montero.

And you've got another name for it.

Think of the anger at God.

I assure you, that's a mountain
like color.

I say that's my kind of a mountain.

Sharp enough. High enough.

Meaning if I come 7000 miles
for that mountain.

Then climb.

Indians.

Perhaps not to West Face.

I'm off to the West Face.

How about it, McCullough?

Care to. Come along? Not a chance.

Got 100
wagons waiting for me to find a pastor.

These mountains.

Three of us should make it up the west
face to the top, a lot faster.

Then she all the passes from up there.

That's a thought.

That's right, Steve.

Yes, you probably could.

I'll think about it.

They're sh**ting at

well planned baiting down here
for the night.

You're welcome to join us if you wish.

McCullough.

I have climbed a lot of mountains.

I've met a lot of men.

I have never been let.

I'll build a fire. For.

You. Right, Cannon?

The treasures completely wiped out.
I had an idea.

You didn't believe me, McCullough.

I've been burned myself.

I'll make you think I'd want to burn you.

I don't know. What do you say?

What is there to say?

Not wagon train of yours
must be getting pretty anxious.

There's not much
I can do about it, though.

There's one possibility.

Penny 20

ideas. Hey, McCullough.

The top of the world.

See all the passes from up there?

They could make it by this afternoon.

What about the other side?

He smokes a lot. Simpler day.

Three days longer to get that out
this way.

With luck,
we'll be up and down by nightfall.

Yeah, with luck.

It's a lot of mountain Camden.

Maybe it can't be climbed.

It's not that. God, McCullough.

That's not a man.

It's a mountain brook.

All right, So

it can be climbed.

What makes you so sure?

As a matter of fact,
I doubt there's a peak

this side of the Himalayas
that I can't manage to master.

Correction.

But we can't.

We, huh?

You, me, my son.

Now you go back to the major

base.

Any questions you just don't answer.

A week of the anger and God.

I didn't look mad to me.

Scared

with the strong guys.

Preparing a reception for us.

We mustn't be late.

Most ungentlemanly

the color.

Yeah.

Remember what I told you about that rope?

Some keep the rope taut

blade around the rock or myself,
if necessary.

Play. Follow the leader.

One man's stationary.

The other two are moving by sundown.

Nikolai, you're a born mountaineer.

Now I'm going to take a shot of this race,

and I'll save a lot of time if it goes

dead.

So am I.

You're no coward.

No, just human.

Do you think he is?

I don't know.

Of course We'll find out.

We'll.

I never have.

Mother never did either.

No, She wanted to call me Richard.

I was her father's name.

He was an owl.

Ever since I can remember,
it was little Steve.

Everyone would laugh,
pretend to see a resemblance.

Certainly. My father's son, they'd say.

Then he'd laugh and look proud.

They were wrong, you know.

Do you think so?

Mark was his son.

He was my older brother.

Just like in

time.

The sheriff's Cliff chute,
the largest water buff.

He was his kind of man.

And why isn't he with it?

Mark died over in India during the mutiny.

Big Steve was his commanding officer.

Got him The Victoria Cross posthumously,
of course,

for conspicuous gallantry
in the face of the enemy.

Mark was his son.

It'll go, Steve.

It'll go

clear to the shoulder.

I said we'd have luck.

And after the shoulder.

One bad spot.

A couple of hundred feet of sheer rock.

But it's simple after that.

Camden. Yeah.

You said it's a tricky climb.

A challenge, if that's what you mean.

I don't think your son's up to it.

I don't mean an affair. Well, then don't.

We could leave him here,
Come back to life.

We've got help from the wagon
train. Nonsense.

Best thing in the world for him.

Give him confidence.

You want to go?

Don't you see?

Well, sir.

I tell you, boy,
there's nothing like it in the world

when you stand with your two feet
straddling a virgin peak.

And look at the sky on
something because you're one.

I wasn't doing much

shouting on the winter moon,
and that was a comparatively easy piece.

As our guide said.

Nice day's climb for a lady.

Muscle spasm, vertigo, which happens

even to the most experienced climber.

But you've learned, Steve,
I've taught you when you've learned.

Have I k*lled a man, Steve?

Men aren't afraid.

They don't panic.

No, no, not kind of man. Why not?

How can he be sure?

I'm sure. Why?

Because he's my son.

All right,

let's go.

Any more.

Come on, boys.

Have to keep going.

As I came up there.

Do you think we're going to make it?

Yes, we'll make it.

Oh, your.

By your

steady boy.

You all right?

Yes, quite.

Thank you. Can you get the lantern?

Every

time we leave our.

Packs here.

Back to maybe the.

Ledge widens

or narrows.

This cave has no bottom.

Incredible.

Like another world.

But remember this.

All our lives.

Sure.

Well,

listen,

Tom's like an animal to me.

Animals.

Where you're

always like this, it's hard to tell.

Could be anywhere far above us.

But in they're behind us.

What kind of an animal?

This kind of a place
a cat might hold? Yes.

Panther.

Jaguar or a.

Oh. What?

It was high.

Isolated.

Strange forms of life develop.

It's close.

Stalking.

Stalking?

What does it.

Hold?

A lantern high.

Catch the light to its eyes.

Not too bad.

It kills darkness.

A moving target.

It's a cat.

All right.

Now, by now.

Probably blind. Hence by sound and smell.

This digital form of Puma.

Maybe I never saw a puma with teeth
like that.

Know anything about the Ice Age, McCalla?

No. This is a leftover.

Pretty suitable for a cave.

Two pale white
remnant of the age of caves.

Meaning what?

Throwback Macallan.

Throwback the saber tooth tiger.

Fantastic.

Yeah, it's fantastic.

I'd rather stay with the storm.

Oh, here. We've got a fighting chance.

I fight better when I can see.

We've got two years. Brains.



I don't like the odds

or the company.

What do you suppose they are?

Some blind horror.

That should have died out


Who knows?

Whenever they are,
they seem to know we're here.

What do you think started them?

The shot

probably can't see us any better
than we can see them.

Must be hundreds of thousands.

We're not going to stay here.

It's a big care.

There must be another way out of it.

Maybe it goes all the way
through the mountain.

There's only

one way to find out who.

Could you see him?

Yes, I can get to him.

We use ice ax for a ballet.

Yes. How?

The rope

is so ill.

Brace yourself.

I'm going down him.

Why not?

I mean, he's dead.

Perhaps.

Perhaps he's just stunned.

Anyhow, those things, whatever they are,

no need to be frightened, Steve.

All right,

Brace yourself.

We'll

get inside,

and I go for

an intravenous.

All right, enough.

Enough.

Oh! Oh, And.

Is he dead?

He's all right.

He's alive.

No, doctor,

but he's up. Boy.

Oh, take up the sack, huh?

Oh, oh.

Oh, poor boy. Oh!

Ha! Dying off.

Don't just sit.

Back.

Wait a moment.

I'll be

all right. See?

But why don't you say it?

Go on. I know what you're thinking.

I'm a weak.

Clumsy, incompetent fool.

It's true.

So why don't you say it? Say

you've got it.

How are you feeling?

Tension.

There's nothing broken

here.

Well, lucky, you know.

You hit that ledge.

It's about as lucky as you get.

And say how you got me out

of my hole.

And I say thanks.

That isn't very much to say.

Oh, no, this is it.

It is for me, for any man.

And to be done least

that have to be said.

Take the two of you at least

I send the boy the packs.

He should be back pretty soon.

He got ten left.

Now I can use some of this steps.

I hereby give me a hand.

We've got to set the sleigh.

But we can't do it here.

But we there can.

Hold your weight there.

Okay.

Your body up
and I'll just drop you right on down.

I got it. Now

he's with me now.

You hold it there.

Get his right, lady.

All right, let's go

get a blanket

on his leg.

You don't have to look.

Just hold.

Your will.

You ready?

Yes. Get it over with. Hot.

Hold on.

Hold on.

This button pocket

all familiar.

So now let's have some light.

Don't.

It's going to hold

the ABC of And they have climb up here.

You can't carry too
tough That's stomach and down again

take form in structure and look.

We'll give it a try

now what are we.

Well well

tell this to storms for the lights

and then.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I'll tell you. We're waiting for McKellar.

Well, I just had Leave your hair
and if you stay.

One life, I'll three lives McKellar.

There's got to be another way.

There isn't

I don't like gentlemen, the color.

I never did too many minnows to fill guts.

I don't need Julia color.

I don't need anyone.

I never have and I never will.

You ever been to Australia? No.

I was born there
and my father was a deportee convict.

New South Wales.

My mother died.

That made her lucky.

I ran away from home when I was 13

at the London docks.

Three shillings in my pocket,
No family, no friends.

But I knew what I was headed
the top of the heap,

and I got there alone.

I don't need you, my color.

I don't need anyone.

All right.

You got it.

I'm sorry. I am a matches.

I don't manage.

I'll send help as soon as I can.

If I make it.

You'll make it,

Both of you. What?

I said you'll make it.

Both of you.

I can't.

I'm sorry.

So my cousin.

Is going with you.

It's up to him.

He's my son.

He's a man.

He'll come back to Madison.

Scared or not.

That's all there is to it, is it?

I told you.

He's my son.

Has no reason for this.

Not one possible reason. Yes, sir. Is

you. My client?

You can't do it alone.

Let's see if you can catch him up.

If you hurry.

What's the matter, Steve?

Are you afraid?

Yes. Yes,

I'm afraid.

I tried to keep it hidden.

Keep you from knowing.

But you knew.

You knew all the time and you didn't care.

But now I'm the one who doesn't care.

I don't care that I'm a coward.

I don't care. I'm not your kind of son

because I'm not.

I never was.

It's too bad Mark isn't here.

He was the brave one.

Conspicuous gallantry
in the face of the enemy.

He'd crawl out of here
and save himself and McCullough.

And you.

But Mark isn't here.

Mark is dead.

And I.

I'm a coward.

I'm going to wait right here.

Wait here and.

Get out of afraid.

I know you will want to die,

honey.

That's what Mark said.

But the end Mark

one has to laugh, little Steve.

The jokes and God plays on one

one has to laugh or cry.

A man has courage all his life.

I'm not afraid of anybody or anything.

Gets to the top of the heap.

Oh, come the slime brazier

himself by his own efforts.

Then he has two sons.

He teaches them all he knows

from the world,

and they both turn out to be cowards.

Well, of the.

In India,

you were Mark's superior officer
in that burning village.

You were the one who

conspicuous gallantry
in the face of the enemy.

Two heroes in the family, one living,

one dead with a hero's death.

Tell me,

what is he, Heroes, Death, Big Steve.

Mark is a soldier.

He had his duty.

If he'd done it, if he'd a big my orders,

a hundred men would have lived,

including Mark and even Mark.

He was an officer, wasn't an officer.

Doesn't crouch in a hole
and wait to die us to die.

He had his duty.

Yes. And he failed.

Oh, I had my duty.

Duty.

Just because he showed fear.

Was that duty or was it m*rder?

Well, what about it, little Steve?

Ready to climb the mountain?

No, I'm not going anywhere.

I don't want to be saved.

I ought to stay right here.

Stay here and rot

along with you.

Right here where we belong.

The rest of the throwbacks.

The pay little white things

that have been buried here
for 10,000 years,

my dear.

And I keep.

Because

a car,

when it on.

Come on.

I don't think Steve can

I guess nameless ones are.

Top of the world.

It was what he wanted

I, I never knew why

I know now.

I thought you were afraid of mountains.

I was.

I mean, I am.

That's what's so strange.

What's the use?

I'm still a coward. Nothing's changed.

Not really.

It couldn't be wrong enough.

I told you I was frightened.

Scared to death.

Every ledge,
every rock, every step of the way.

But you climbed,

you know, maybe you haven't.

Courage is more
than just not being afraid.

Matt has never been afraid.

Maybe he isn't brave.

Maybe he's just lucky.

Maybe having courage means.

Maybe it means being scared.

Scared to death,

but still climbing.

You really believe that? Hmm?

I wrote a poem once, a long time ago
about courage.

There's one line that I remember

and bravely dare the danger.

Nature shrinks from.

Terror.

The danger nature shrinks from.

That's what it said.

Well, no,

but I get down

here first

is sure.

I'm sure.

How brave are you?

Oh, gosh,

Brian, as you

tell how

well I know

Captain

McCullough. Look

for mountain climbing caves.

Saber tooth tigers. I.

I swear I fled.

It's a good thing this trail of ours
doesn't run on the ocean.

You come back riding the whales, Parting
stories about a great big sea monster.

You know
that last year's came back by itself.

We kind of figured
you might be in real trouble.

And Johnny tried to ask the horse
some questions about it.

He wouldn't answer.

We kind of thought maybe the horse was
just plain ashamed of what you was up to.

All right, forget it.

Will you forget the trail, too?

It's blocked.

All out. Figures.

How do you even a wagon

got silly enough to try to climb
the face of that cliff for fun.

Or is he all right?

Go ahead.

Rub it in. Rub it in. I made a wrong.

I thought it was worth a try.

That's all I.

Know. I've learned it was worth a try.

What was it
you called it? Calculated risk.

That's what I call it.

But we're right where we started.

Oh, I don't know.

Our last couple of days
been kind of warming up

old whiskers here, He says
This is definitely going to be a saw.

I can feel it in these bunions.

Yeah. Now, you don't resign either.

Just take a look over there,

if that ain't a thought starting.

I'm a monkey's uncle. New look.

Yeah, Monkey, I. No monkey.
We better get started.

Yes, I'll pass. Bill,
how are you doing on that stretcher?

I'll be ready in about two shakes.

Think he can get him down by sundown?

I won't be too tough to get up the top.

We can use these ropes.
Let him over the cliff.

I wish we had one of those mountain goats
to show us the way back down again.

Don't need one.

Steve Camden is a born mountain climber.

Best in the business.

You mean I have to go back up there?

Back to the cave?

I should think you'd want to. I can't.

Why can't you?

No one can make me go back up there.

Not even you.

That's right.

Nobody can.

Except what little Steve Camden

family joke.

I thought you that Grant,

this is mine.

It'd be wrong.

We'd better get going.

All right, boys.

Why does out here go.

Another four feet

in Flint?

Take a look at these tracks.

Some three toed animal.

They're all over the place.

Never seen tracks from an animal like that
before.

That was really tall tale.

You were spinning the magic.

There's some real strange here.

Mighty strange.

The stillness

you've

moved

your stays.

Camden. Dad.

Glad he's gone.

He wanted the top of the world.

He got it now.