Were George Mallory and his companion Andrew Irvine the first men to reach the summit of Everest on June 8, 1924? Only the small Kodak Vest Pocket camera, with which they planned to photograph themselves on the roof of the world, could reveal the truth.

Seventy years later in Kathmandu, Fukamachi, a young Japanese reporter hungry for a scoop, believes he recognizes this camera in the hands of the mysterious Habu Jôji, a banned climber thought to have disappeared years ago. This encounter will lead Fukamachi into a world of mountaineers consumed by passion and thirst for impossible conquests, gradually drawing him toward the summit of the gods. Hoping to find the answer to the Mallory mystery, he will face his own demons there.