Taking Constance on an international tour to expose her to a world she has never experienced, FBI agent Pendergast visits the Tibetan monastery where he received martial arts training, only to learn that a rare and dangerous artifact has been stolen.

Sarasvati "Sara" Troy is determined to reach the peak for which she was christened, and to climb it in honor of her mother, who perished in a mountaineering accident when Sara was just a child. She asks her father, a celebrated mountaineer and philosophy professor, to organize and lead the expedition.The six climbers he recruits are an uneasy mix. They include his longtime friend Dr. Arun Reddy, a recent widower, and Reddy's son, who often challenges...

In the plains of the Himalayas, numerous expeditions arrive every year, all with the same stubbornness. Many return mutilated by gangrene, blinded by the snow or feverish with diarrhea. But nothing dissuades these eager people from trying to reach the bottom of Toscano's Grotto, which could contain the actual nine circles of Dante's Inferno. "Se han organizado varios grupos de expediciones para intentar adentrarse para encontrar el gran secreto que...

Whilst searching a windswept mountainside for the fabled ghost moth fungus, a young Tibetan boy unearths a mysterious relic. Moments later the People's Liberation Army of China marches into his isolated village in the valley below and begins to dismantle an ancient way of life. As the brutal oppression grows, the boy's precious find becomes first a symbol of hope for the villagers then a tool of survival for a people and a religion. It must be preserved...