This legendary story of the two climbers begins from their base camp which they set up down in Cordillera Huayhash. Joe and Simon are chilling in their tent making final preparations and getting better acquainted with there new friend Richard who is introduced as someone who is not fond of mountaineering but still enjoys travelling, for example when they first met Richard it was in Lima. He would be looking after the rest of the stuff left behind at camp while the other two go up the mountain. During this time, the group shares their worries about the possible coming of unpredictable weather conditions to which they maintain high motivation. They set off on their impossible-to-be-made-possible task with Richard until they part ways where they tell Richard they should be back in 4-5 days and returns to camp and the remaining two settle in a snow cave ready for the next day.

The next day, the two begin to feel the ever decreasing air temperature of the mountain but never the less they began their trek and both of them were feeling the rush going through their bodies. They decided that in 6 hours they will slow down and look for a gully to dig a snow cave so they can rest up having already scaled 2000 feet. the time passed 15 hours, in this time they had encountered walls of ice that were not suitable to climb and ice started cracking and falling towards them. All the dangers so far the have overcome and they were rewarded with a cave to which they can rest up. Joe and Simon rested up and we are treated to a story where Joe was climbing with Ian Whittaker and how they trekked through the Chamonix Valley and how they almost plummeted to their deaths.

Simon shared his thoughts on the possibilities that they could reach the mountain’s summit by the end of the day to which Joe say that it couldn’t be done in the day but they remained fully confident that they can complete the task. They encountered trickier areas of ice so they choose to hold back and rest for a while and reflected and agreed upon the fact that they would not be able to reach the summit by the end of the day. They climbed further till they decided to dig another snow cave around 300 feet away from the summit, they checked the temperature to find out it is -40 degrees and Simon is worried he has frostbite in his fingers as he couldn’t feel them. They marched on to reach the summit  the next day, they were overwhelmed but Joe couldn’t shake a strange feeling he had. Climbing a mountain is a challenge, climbing back down is a greater challenge, Joe and Simon faced this challenge as they encountered a whiteout (complete snow storm where only white is visible) and this caused Simon to slip and fall luckily Joe held on to him with the rope but he also almost fell when the ridge started collapsing beneath him. It was at this moment they Knew that they were gong to face an even greater challenge.