He suffered for four hours before dying twenty minutes from the base.Ĭharles Bishop Weyland: You think that's the last thing your dad remembers? The pain? Or drinking champagne with his daughter fourteen thousand feet in the air? On the way down, he developed a blood clot in his leg that traveled to his lung. I had my first drink with my dad at 14,400 feet. We reached the top and he opened a bottle of champagne. My dad broke his leg seven hundred feet from the summit of Mount Rainier. And that's it.Īlexa 'Lex' Woods: I've heard this speech before.
You know what I realized would happen when I go? A ten percent fall in share prices. We'll update you at the top of every hour.Ĭharles Bishop Weyland: You know, when you get sick, you think about your life and how you're going to be remembered. Alexa 'Lex' Woods: There's no room for sick men on this expedition.Ĭharles Bishop Weyland: My doctors tell me the worst is behind me.Īlexa 'Lex' Woods: You're not a very good liar, Mr.
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