A younger privileged American "Nathaniel J. Menninger" makes an attempt to make historical past at Everest by changing into a Himalaya Porter. However in his journey to succeed, experiences a harrowing actuality as an alternative. That is an inside have a look at the darker aspect of Everest. On the energy, delight and ache of these whose help it. And at simply how onerous it's for a naive foreigner to try the identical. That is The Porter.