Seeking isolation, thrills, and altitude, Eric LeMarque (Josh Hartnett) finds himself stranded for eight days in the frozen wilderness. He endures hypothermia, starvation, wolves, frostbite, dehydration, withdrawals and hallucination. In this beautiful and deadly environment, Eric fights a more difficult battle within himself as he is forced to face the selfish and destructive choices that left him stranded in the frozen tundra. As the walls close in, Eric must relinquish the drugs he relied on and conquer the ghosts in his past while fighting to stay alive. As his mother launches a desperate rescue effort he must make one final heroic climb towards rescue before time runs out and he succumbs...