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The most extensively filmed Everest climb in history captures climbers from around the world who face danger. This is a climb where ambition overrides agony, exhaustion and the chances of survival. Guided by experienced and tough leader with 18 seasons on the mountain behind him, Russell's varied team of adventurers will endure weeks of preparation necessary to begin the ascent on the world's highest mountain. Along the way, a number of climbers will tell the story of what brought them to try to reach the highest point on earth. Climbers, who come from all walks of life, arrive at Everest Base Camp and quickly learn the realities of the mountain - one of the expedition Sherpas has died from altitude sickness. Expedition leader, Russell, is distraught and climbers are stunned. Russell has taken over a hundred to the summit and never lost a single man in 20 years until this time.