Mountains are mental

3 MEN ARE MOUNTAINEERING AND THEY ARE IN BLIZZARD LIKE CONDITIONS

Pete:Come on Tom, just get that hooked on that wee ledge and we're about 20 ft from the summit.

Tom: Good God I am absolutely shattered, but we've nearly done it lads!

Andrew: I can't believe we've been out here 6 days, this is nearly it.

Tom: Right, I'm going to go for this one first as it looks a bit treacherous and my tread is the best out of all of us.

Peten you go Tom…

Tom secures the line and climbs up the rope to a secure ledge

Andrew: Go on Pete, prepare for glory.

Pete:This is it, we are about to achieve a lifetimes ambition here chaps

Tom:2 years in the making this Pete

Pete:I feel so alive!!

Pete slowly climbs the rope and Andrew is very close behind almost touching his backside

Tom: Come on 20ft that's all it is. We've come 29000 feet and we're about to win!

Andrew: Get those pints of ice ready!

Out of nowhere a man in a grey suit comes out of a door hidden by the snow

Suited Mani, You got a permit to be here?

Pete (AMAZED):By god, where the hell did you come from?

Suited Man:That's what I should be asking you. Now where's your permit?

Tom:What permit?

Suited Man: This permit (PRODUCES PERMIT FROM POCKET)

Andrew (ANGRY): We don't need a bloody permit.

Suited Man: I'm afraid you do. It's a new permit to climb Everest. No permit, no summit.

Tom: This is ridiculous what are we supposed to do?

Suited Man: You're gonna have to go back and come back when you've got your permit. Oh and you can only use official Mount Everest food and water, so next time…remember…

Suited Man walks off

Tom(EMOTIONAL): You think we've come 29000 ft to be stopped now, you can get the hell out of my life!

Tom launches another rope to reach the peak. He is about to climb when all 3 go through a trap door and down a massive helter skelter slide. The suited man is seen waving.

Suited Man: Crooks

END

I am pretty sure you do actually need some form of permit to climb Mt. Everest.

Travelling to the location of Mount Everest, let alone building a trap-door and a massive helter skelter slide onto it, would be cost prohibitive.

And where would you park?

Right that's it! The pink head-band is off!!!

Sorry, but because it was such a long intro with everyone repeating themselves about how great an achievement this was going to be, it was kind of obvious that there would be something like this at the top. I was expecting a family with toddlers and a kid in a pram having a picnic up there. You gave me too much time to think of my own ending and didn't really give me a surprise.

Bit negative I know, but just maybe cut it back a bit (or a lot).

It was in the present tense. What more do you want?

Quote: Kasm @ November 28 2009, 12:01 AM GMT

I was expecting a family with toddlers and a kid in a pram having a picnic up there.

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What - on Mount Everest? - Are you NUTS?

Have you never heard of extreme holidays?

Quote: Morrace @ November 27 2009, 6:21 PM GMT

Travelling to the location of Mount Everest, let alone building a trap-door and a massive helter skelter slide onto it, would be cost prohibitive.

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I'd be willing to see my licence fee increase by a small amount if it would mean sketches of this quality being brought to our TV screens.