He's pretty impressed with her, actually. This isn't exactly an easy journey - it's high, it's pretty freaky, and now she's got to climb a ladder to get on top of the Shatterdome.

Then sit there alone and wait for him to get up after her.

Which he does pretty quickly (after staring at her ass most of her ascent), coming out of the hole after her and settling in, rubbing his hands on his pants.

"Not a bad view, right?"