Jim Icarus is a handsome twenty-two year old who is invited to trek
to the base camp of Mount Everest by his Dad, Alex. His adventures
start by saving a boy from a burning helicopter. He falls in love
with Charley, a pretty emergency physician. She helps resuscitate
his Dad who succumbs to high altitude mountain sickness in
Dingboche, Nepal. By luck a working group who has spent the summer
and fall cleaning the trash from the base camp of Mount Everest is
camped a few hundred yards from Jim's trekking party when his Dad
goes into high altitude cerebral edema. Their Gamow hyperbaric bag
is successful in resuscitating his Dad out of coma, but
unfortunately Alex slips back into coma. Good fortune smiles again
when a French physician from the High Altitude Mountain Rescue
clinic in Pheriche arrives with her Jacque Cousteau designed
hyperbaric chamber that will pressure the victim down to sea level.
An injection of Niphedapine under Alex's tongue and a dive in the
Cousteau bag brings Alex out of his coma once again. Alex survives
a trip to a lower altitude on a makeshift stretcher with oxygen
flowing, but is in poor condition. Only a daring helicopter rescue
offers any hope, but leaves Jim wondering about the fate of his
Dad. The rest of the trekking party marches up the trail and
eventually five members summit Kala Patthar, but not without
another high altitude sickness casualty. Meanwhile, Jim hurries
down the mountain only to have to wait in Lukla for a flight back
to Kathmandu. Alex recovers unbeknownst to Jim and sight sees
around Kathmandu. Charley transports the other coma patient by
rescue helicopter, but never quite hooks up with Jim. Jim finally
meets his Dad and they recount the events that nearly melted their
wings.
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