Le Sommet des Dieux

In Kathmandu, the Japanese reporter Fukamachi believes he recognizes Habu Jôji, this mountaineer who has been missing for years. He seems to hold in his hands a camera that could change the history of mountaineering. Were George Mallory and his companion Andrew Irvine the first men to scale Everest on June 8th, 1924? Only the little Kodak camera they took with them might reveal the truth. In Kathmandu 70 years later, a young Japanese reporter named Fukamachi recognizes the camera in the hands of the mysterious Habu Jôji, an outcast climber believed missing for years. Fukamachi enters a world of obsessive mountaineers hungry for impossible conquests on a journey that leads him, step by step, towards the summit of the gods.