Synopsis
In 1960, the Chinese National Mountaineering Team launched an expedition to Mount Everest and reached the summit from its north side for the first time in human history but failed to leave concrete evidence. Fifteen years later, former mountaineers FANG Wuzhou (WU Jing) and QU Songlin (ZHANG Yi) were reassembled with a new generation of mountaineers including LI Guoliang (JING Boran) and YANG Guang (HU Ge) to measure the world’s highest with the help of meteorologist, XU Ying (ZHANG Ziyi) -- Fang’s beloved woman. It is a life and death mission for everyone and the extreme climate favours none.