In a darkened room, a middle aged man and an eager boy of ten sit tensely watching a flickering film. On the improvised screen is the image of mighty Mount Everest, majestic, forbidding, wrapped in its mantel of snow. The professor is telling little Tommy Winston about how they'd very nearly reached the peak of Mount Everest, but that they'd had to turn back. It was the hardest thing he'd ever had to do. Tommy loves the professor, and his stories...