14-year-old Peak has mountain climbing in his blood. So after he is arrested for scaling a skyscraper in New York City, his mother sends him to live with his mountain-climbing father in Thailand. Soon, Peak discovers that his father wants him to become the youngest person to climb Mt. Everest, and before he knows it he is training with a Sherpa and a Napelese teen named Sun-jo. But by the end of his dangerous adventure, Peak realizes that he has learned much more than how to scale a mountain.