The film not only records Gau's life since the disaster and his return to Everest base camp, but also includes a rebuttal of the biases and errors of Into Thin Air, including the point that Krakauer lays the blame for the disaster on the bottleneck, but never asks the more important question: why were so many teams even on the mountain?
片中除了紀錄高銘和劫後餘生、重返聖母峰基地營的經過，尤伊奇也不客氣地指出《巔峰》一書的偏見和錯誤：作者把災難原因之一指向山頂壅塞，但關鍵是，「為什麼會有那麼多隊伍在山上？」