Board Thread:Pitches/@comment-17479654-20140112022806/@comment-17479654-20140113210735

Yup.

SPOILER ALERT:  In the end he does save the guy and never reaches the top. But, since his goal was to put the shirt his dad was wearing when he died on top as a "banner in the sky", the climber and his uncle took the banner (which the kid left behind) and placed it. So everyone thinks he made it, but he didn't.