Avengers React

Chris Hemsworth Interview

(Watch from 1:23. I'll be skipping over unimportant parts.)

Chris: Recently did a trip to the Himalayas.
Interviewer: Well that's not a little trip is it? 
Chris: No it isn't is it?
Interviewer: And the kids came on that trip?
Chris: No, just my wife, Elsa, and I.

Everyone choked. "Hold up now?!" Tony exclaimed. "Point Break has kids? And a wife?!"
Rhodey hit him. "It's not him, idiot." He deadpanned.
Suddenly a smirk overtook Sam's face. "He's an Aussie." 
Everyone listened to Chris' accent for a second and laughed. "He is!" Clint said, laughing louder. "He is!"
Thor pouted at the laughter, but a good-natured smile took over his face.

Chris: She got tickets for, like, this TV program and I was her plus one. I came along for the ride.
Interviewer: And how high up did you go?
Chris: We went way up. So we got higher and higher and we ended up at about 4000 meters above sea level.

Sam's mouth dropped open. "Holy shit!" He said. "That's crazy!"

Chris: Yeah, and you acclimate every couple of days, you plant yourself in one place and your body adjusts to that, you know, lack of oxygen and so on. Then you go higher and higher. Have you ever heard of altitude depression?
Interviewer: I've heard LT, is that like altitude sickness.
Chris: It's, yeah, I got that.

Bruce sucked in a breath suddenly. Everyone turned towards him, concerned for Chris. After all, if Chris died, logically Thor would be gone too. "What is it, Brucie Bear?" Tony asked.
Bruce cleared his throat, uncomfortable with the amount of eyes on him. "It's when levels of a certain chemical inside your body is reduced, which brings high levels of depression, anxiety and stress. Several people have been known to self-harm or even commit suicide under the influence of altitude depression." 
Everyone sucked in a breath, turning towards the screen with new attentiveness. The video unpaused.

Interviewer: Oh, you did?
Chris: Yeah, and basically we went to 2000 meters, and then 3000 and I slowly, honestly started to kind of lose my mind.

Everyone looked alarmed, glancing between Chris on the screen and Thor. They looked way too alike for comfort. 
"Voice?" Loki spoke up suddenly, making everyone jump. They had almost forgotten he was there. Everyone turned expressions of hatred to him, to which Thor responded to by grabbing his brother's hand. Loki didn't pull away, surprising everyone, and their glares softened when they noticed the distinct concerned note in his voice. "If  Chris died in your universe- or lost his mind, as he implied he was in the video, would Thor die, or become insane in ours?"
Voice responded immediately. Yes. Thor would die, or become insane in this universe too. 
Loki gripped Thor's hand harder, and all the Avengers stiffened. Thor was like a brother to all of them now. Fury hoped he wouldn't die- it would be the loss of a valuable asset. Everyone turned their attention back on the screen, tension in the air. The video continued.

Interviewer: What does that mean, lose your mind?
Chris: Like, completely irrational. Overly sensitive to the most trivial sort of silly things. And Elsa is just like, what's wrong with you? And I'm just like, it's nothing, you know, this is ridiculous, you know what, what are we doing here, why are we here? And we go higher and higher and we got to 4000 meters. We're camped and it's -30 where we're camping.

Bucky whistled. "Shit, that's freaking freezing."

Chris: We're sleeping in these rock huts with no windows and so on. Just to give you an idea, if you have a bottle of water outside your sleeping bag it's frozen by the time you wake up. It has to be tucked in with you.
Interviewer: Oh really? That's what's freezing.
Chris: Right. Then there's dogs everywhere because the camp is near this forest, and the local guides were like, don't go near the dogs!
Interviewer: Right, what a great trip.
Chris: That's what I said, right, bonding experience. The toilet is a tent that's gonna slide 100 meters away, in the distance, in the dark, in the snow. There's, like, all I can see when I get the torch out is these eight sets of eyes, barking up at me and so on. And I've got the shovel trying to work my way through the darkness. Anyway, this goes on, I come back, and I'm just tossing and turning and Elsa's just like, what's wrong with him? And I'm like, I'm fine, I'm fine, and my breathing is getting worse-

"WHAT?!" Bruce yelled. "HE IS NOT FINE!" 
Everyone turned towards him, eyes filled with concern and a furrow between their eyebrows. Bruce just shakes his head. "You'll see."

Chris: And I start to like, Darth Vader meets Daffy Duck or whatever that sound is.

Tony, Sam and Clint snort in laughter in unison.

Chris: And Elsa's like, there's something wrong with you, your breathing.

"YES!" Everyone shouts in unison. "THERE IS!"

Chris: And I'm like, I'm fine, I'm fine, leave me alone, this is ridiculous, you know, the dogs are barking, we shouldn't be here, this is crazy. She eventually ignores me and runs and tells the guides.

Everyone is practically out of their seats by now, hoping they would get there in time. "Thank god for Elsa." Bruce sighs in relief. Loki wordlessly nods in agreement- Thor sees and smiles at his brother, squeezing his hand gently.

Chris: And they come in take one look at me and say, get him off the mountain. And they start injecting me with all sorts, you know, whatever will adjust my oxygen intake, oxygen mask on and we flew down the mountain for eight hours in the four drives.

"Oh, god." Steve breathes. 
Sam wrings his hands together. "That's fucking bad."

Chris: Yeah, but apparently the oxygen in my lungs, well, the next stage was oxygen in my brain, and then- good night. We wouldn't be sitting here.

Everyone sucks in a breath. Thinking how close Chris came to dying, which would lead to Thor's death, was terrifying. 

Interviewer: You need a new travel agent.

Everyone lets out a relieved laugh, freeing the tension from the air. 
"Thor, buddy?" Tony said. "I'm getting you a top-notch travel agent."

(start watching at 0:10)

Okay. Voice says, who had remained quiet until now. Next video.

Chris: We went on it a couple of years ago when it was previously called the Tower of Terror or something, and she wasn't tall enough, and she was really upset, so I grabbed a couple of Snickers bars and things and slammed them in the back of her shoe under her heel, so I'd like propped her up. So they were like, okay, in you come! And we're at the top and I'm looking at her, she's strapped in with, you know, the seat is massive on her. And I'm like, you know, we beat the system honey! She's like, screaming the whole way down, and I was like, maybe, maybe there's a reason that there's a height limit.

Everyone looks at the screen in disbelief. "You think?" Clint yelled.