Peak

Fourteen-year-old Peak Marcello has been obsessed with climbing and heights since childhood. The passion for conquering peaks runs in his blood, as Peak's parents are climbers. But he is drawn not only to mountains, and one day Peak climbs a skyscraper... Now he faces prison, and the only way out is to leave far away. And Peak, along with his father, whom he hasn't seen for many years, sets off 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 only 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 heights of several thousand meters, money, the thirst for fame, and the fear of death rule everything. Why is it worth climbing to the top? For fame, for wealth, for freedom, for your family, or for yourself? Peak found himself on the slope by chance, and he has no answer. "To conquer a mountain, you need to think only about it and yourself," is the advice his mother gives to Peak. 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 completely alone in a tent during a snowstorm, you begin to separate the important from the unimportant.

As Peak himself admitted, "At the summit of Everest, you can only find scenery of divine beauty, nothing more. And to find what is most important in life, you don't need to climb that high at all." Will he be able to sacrifice everything and become the youngest conqueror of Everest?