The culmination of training, travel and mental preparation comes to a head as the team attempts to summit during a tight weather window. After scaling near-vertical walls and enduring a sleepless night at thirty below zero temps, they are faced with a difficult decision – turn back or risk their lives to reach the top of the world. “There is a line that exists that I cross when I start climbing and it is a line of surrender, its a line of acknowledgment, its a line of willingness to accept the outcome” – Cory Richards