A climber must rescue his sister on top of K2, one of the world's biggest mountain.
A high-adrenaline tale of young climber Peter Garrett, who must launch a treacherous and extraordinary rescue effort up K2, the world's second highest peak. Confronting both his own limitation and the awesome power of nature's uncontrollable elements, Peter risks his life to save his sister, Annie, and her summit team in a race againt time. The team is trapped in an icy grave at 26,000 feet - a death zone above the vertical limit of endurance where the human body cannot survive for long. Every second counts as Peter enlists the help of a crew of fellow climber, including eccentric, reclusive mountain man Montgomery Wick, to ascend the chilling might of the world's most feared peak to save her.
Himalayas of the western foot of the towering K2 is second only to Everest the world's second high peaks, as early as 1892, there are European climbers attempt to climb K2, but until 1954 by an Italian expedition to successfully climb to the top, the desire to conquer K2 . Peter (Chris O'Donnell played) the a mountaineering players, however, because the father died in an accident in a mountaineering accident, so Peter was determined to give up mountain climbing, and Peter's sister Annie (Robin Courteney ornaments) were not willing to give up, brother and sister both men so broke. Anne self-organized an expedition to K2 attack, only to encounter mutations climate expedition trapped the cliffs above the dilemma. In order to rescue Annie, Peter had to go into battle once again challenge the K2 limit !