Fourteen-year-old Peak is arrested for trying to climb a New York skyscraper. The authorities want to punish him in a way that will discourage others. As a result, the judge gives him a choice: a year and a half in prison or... This “or” will turn into an amazing adventure with many trials: Pick will find his long-vanished father, and climb Everest, and rivalry with a friend, and get to know the very unsightly underbelly of mountaineering , where ambition, money and the desire for fame collide. But also an acquaintance with a world in which people strive for the top and are able to sacrifice themselves for the sake of others. Source: