Makoto Fukamachi is a Japanese cameraman. On a backstreet of Nepal, he finds an old camera that might possibly solve the mystery of whether George Mallory became the first person to successfully climb Mount Everest on June 8, 1924 or not. Pursuing the old camera's past, Makoto Fukamachi meets legendary alpinist Joji Habu, who is isolated from other people because of his reckless and thoughtless personality.