What I want to talk to you about is a triumph. A triumph in filmmaking, and a triumph of the human spirit. We brought a 42-pound camera to the top of the world. You'll come up to 'Joe' on the mountain, and he'll spill his guts about his fears and you say, 'Joe, you tell it like it is. But women tell it like it is in front of the camera.
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You can imagine my horror when the IMAX engineers rolled out the camera. It weighed 72 pounds. Breashears said that after minor communications problems with the engineers, they managed to cooperate and build a camera that could go to Everest. Whether it's peering into a microscope to look at DNA or peering into the Hubble telescope, people are driven by the unknown. People are driven by uncertainty.