In this personal and eye-opening exposÔe, Dianne Whelan shares stories of her forty days on Everest filming a documentary, encountering Maoist rebels, avalanches and dead bodies surfacing out of a dying glacier. Her interviews with climbers, doctors and Sherpas living in the belly of the mountain are woven with the devastating truth of the human impact on the mountain and the eerie and unforeseen effects of climate change.