 This film follows Luanne Freer,MD a young woman doctor from Montana and founder of the base camp medical clinic -17,500 feet up Mt. Everest. Her treatments range from retinal burns and emergency tooth extractions to the life and death struggle of one climber who contracts an acute case of High Altitude Pulmonary Edema. Whether he lives of dies, is up to Dr. Freer and Chomolungma - "The Goddess Mother of the Earth:" Mt. Everest.