A backcountry guide in British Columbia generally turns a blind eye as his clientele traffic drugs into the United States — but he begins to realize that his newest clients are traveling with cargo far more dangerous than drugs.

When a day hike for people 60 and older has to turn back midway through their hike in Sequoia National Forrest, the hiking leader finds himself at the base of the trail without his wife and without his former friend, both of whom had accompanied him on the trail. With the company of an over-eager widow, the man finds himself contacting search and rescue and waiting to see what morning will bring.

A party traveling west to California experiences unspeakable horror when they become trapped on an impassable trail in the winter.

A quarreling married couple takes a trip to the mountains in Colorado in an attempt to save their marriage, but disaster strikes when they see a pair of young mountain climbers fall, leading to a perilous rescue mission.

A man accompanies two climbing experts up the Alps mountains. Though he decides to stay behind, the others continue without him in hopes of reaching the summit.

A group of friends experienced in river navigation brave an infamously dangerous set of rapids, though some of them are more thrill-seeking than others.

When a couple with a strained relationship rides a motorcycle up a dangerous mountain in southern California, they battle for survival against nature and each other.

In the deserts of New Mexico, a man living alone briefly opens his home to two strays from a passing motorcycle group, one of which is nursing a mortal wound.

A man fishing in the mountains of Virginia must stop at a mountain family's cabin where he debates intervening in a domestic conflict.

A man, uprooting from his life in San Fransisco, takes on a rider on his long drive towards Denver, but finds they don't get along.