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.

Two rich, arrogant men working in tech find themselves climbing Mount Everest. But as the dangers of the mountain, both natural and supernatural, encroach they must fight to survive.

A woman descending Mount Everest watches as her fellow climbers begin to die around her and she wonders why she climbs the mountain in the first place.

Thousands of years in the past, men in Babylon try to build a tower that reaches heaven. One miner, in his exploration, learns the mind-baffling true shape of the world.

An explorer tells the tale of his time on another planet before making a strange request.

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.

Climbing up a hill in the Bay Area, a man plans how to impress his favorite writer with a gift of a rare book. The man's three-year-old son, however, has other plans.

An English topographer travels to India, separating him from his pregnant wife and daughter. Over the course of the year-long expedition, he discovers a new passion and finds he wants to stay longer.

Three friends in a magical world descend a staircase into the abyss at the edge of the world and encounter forces they can't control.

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.