Peak

Fourteen-year-old Pic Marcello has been dreaming of climbing and heights since childhood. The passion for conquering peaks is in his blood, as Pic's parents are climbers. But he is drawn not only to mountains, and one day Pic climbs a... skyscraper... Now he faces prison, and the only way out is to leave. So Pic, along with his father, whom he hasn't seen in many years, heads to the Himalayas. The boy finds himself in a completely different world: the noisy and bustling Kathmandu, in a Buddhist monastery, at the foot of the beautiful snow-capped Himalayas. The terrifying and seemingly unattainable peak of Everest looms high above. But 'Peak' is not just an exciting adventure story about climbing the highest mountain in the world; it is also a very honest tale about the people who dared to do it... There is no romance in conquering Everest. Even at several thousand meters high, everything is ruled by money, the thirst for fame, and the fear of death. What is worth climbing the peak for? To become famous, for wealth, for freedom, for your family, or for yourself? Pic ended up on the slope by chance, and he has no answer... 'To conquer the mountain, you need to think only of it and yourself,' his mother advises Pic. But when you have a friend, when you have to risk your life every day and even save someone else's, when you are left alone in the tent during a snowstorm, you start to distinguish the important from the unimportant... As Pic himself admitted, 'at the top of Everest, you can find only a landscape of divine beauty, nothing more. And to find the most important things in life, you don’t need to climb that high.' Will he be able to sacrifice everything and become the youngest conqueror of Everest?