It is based on interviews with survivors and shows in two strands the deaths of Rob Hall and Doug Hansen and the emotional world of Beck Weathers.

At the world premiere on 30 January 2015 in Dallas[2] Sasha Cooke (Jan Arnold), Julia Rose Arduino (Meg Weathers), Andrew Bidlack (Rob Hall), Craig Verm (Doug Hansen), Kevin Burdette (Beck Weathers), John Boehr (Guy Cotter) and Mark McCrory (Mike Groom) sang.

[9] The European premiere took place on 5 May 2018 at the Theater Hagen in a production by Johannes Erath conducted by Joseph Trafton.

Everest, pathologist Beck Weathers lies unconscious in a snowdrift as mountaineer Rob Hall leads his group to the summit.

Hall reports Hansen's death to the base camp via radio and asks for Cotter's help in establishing telephone contact with Jan. At 2:00 AM on May 11, the other members of the expedition begin to leave one by one.

They agree on the name "Sarah" for their unborn child and assure themselves of their love just before Hall dies, joining Hansen in the chorus.

"[4] Thus, the plot is composed of individual report fragments and flashbacks, rather than being told in a linear fashion, and the characters' motivations are deliberately left unclear.

There is a focus on rhythm and the spectrum of timbres, with numerous sound effects such as the crackling radio or the howling of the wind.

[13][17] The mountain itself has its own voice, produced by the low wind instruments and percussion,[15] and inspired by the slow cracking movements of glacial masses over rocky ground.