What does it mean to climb to the summit today? Does it still make sense to talk about heroic mountaineering, or should the mountains teach us something different? Matteo Righetto poses these questions. The writer, in a small cabin, reads notes for his book. His reflections guide the viewer through a narrative that alternates excursions with encounters with mountaineers of different generations, including a young climber and a legend of 8,000-meter peaks. With Righetto, the protagonists explore spectacular itineraries in the Alps, reflecting on how mountains are sentinels of the climate crisis and symbols of possible change. A reversal of parameters: a mountain that, from a place of conquest or sporting record, becomes a place of listening and of rediscovering slowness. Images of endless lines of cars, with unwitting tourists witnessing the melting glaciers as if they were a spectacle, alternate with footage from family archives, testifying to a change not only in the landscape but also in our relationship with it.