Two women turn 70 within a day of one another. They are friends, but one believes that life is nearing its end and starts to wind up her affairs. The other believes that a person is capable at any age, and decides that mountain-climbing might be a fun thing to start.

    Mountaineering! Can you imagine?

    For the next twenty-five years she devotes her life to climbing some of the toughest mountains in the world.

    In her nineties, Hilda Crooks, mountaineer, becomes the oldest woman to ascend Mt.Fuji, a difficult mountain for even the best, and strongest, mountain-climbers.