Pam Bales begins her lonely hike up Mount Washington – the highest peak of the unpredictable, icy wind-swept White Mountains, New Hampshire, the USA. This journey is her ritual and a way in which she deals with traumatic memories. And it is exactly on the day when she feels the weakest that she will have to show her greatest strength: somebody will die if she does not help them. But if she decides to do it, she could die too.