It was the smallest and most unlikely team ever to attempt to climb the 29,028 ft. Mount Everest, tallest and most dangerous peak on earth. The members of the 1976 Bicentennial Everest Expedition team include nine men and two women. They include a State Department attorney, a teacher of modern dance, a glider pilot, a chemical engineer and two doctors -- set off from Katmandu, Nepal on August 3rd for an assault on the mountain where some 30 previous climbers had lost their lives. The documentary features the dramatic testimony to the challenges faced by the group from the 180-mile march through monsoon rains to the dreaded ice fall at the mountain's base. They also face a blizzard, 40 degrees below zero temperatures and 100 m.p.h. winds which had to be conquered before two members of their team, Bob Cormack and Chriss Chandler, successfully reached the summit on October 8th, 1976.