The documentary gives a detailed description of the conquest of K2 climbing from the north edge on the Chinese side of the mountain. The climb - that proceede well for the first days without too much difficulty even because the weather was good - was extremely hard and took over 30 days in July and August.

• RAI
• Francesco Santon
• Agostino da Polenza
• Josef Rakoncaj
• Fausto De Stefani
• Sergio Martiniello
• Kurt Diemberger
• Julie Tullis