Everest, K2, Kangchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu, Dhaulagiri, Manaslu, Nanga Parbat, Annapurna I, Gasherbrum I, Broad Peak, Gasherbrum II, Shishapangma… Fourteen mythical peaks, the highest on Earth. They rise over 8,000 metres. Their ascent represents a major challenge for mountaineers from all over the world. Few have risen to the challenge, and many have lost their lives in the process… Today, French-Swiss Sophie Lavaud is the first French woman to achieve the Himalayan grand slam. No French woman or man has ever done it before, nor has any Swiss woman, yet nothing predisposed this fifty-year-old woman, neither an athlete nor a
professional mountaineer, to such a feat. How could an ordinary 50-year-old woman manage to climb the fourteen highest peaks on Earth? A lesson in self-sacrifice, motivation and alignment… We follow her as she climbs Nanga Parbat in Pakistan, the ultimate test. Spectacular adventure, chronicle of a forty-day expedition, breathtaking narrative, we draw up an unvarnished portrait of a contemporary woman, uninhibited, and of astonishing simplicity.