High Andes

Wylie Cypher, a
corporate attorney, has a dying marriage, a midlife crisis, and is disillusioned
with his work. Trying to regain fading youth, he plans a trekking vacation with
his daughter, Mercy, across the White Mountains of Peru. When he arrives in
Lima a young law student mistakenly believes Wylie is an agent of the US
government and gives him a travel guide concealing documents that show how the
government is torturing and murdering dissidents. Wylie decides to deliver
those documents to US authorities, which will affect the outcome of the civil
war raging in Peru at the time. Peruvian government thugs and agents of the
Shining Path communist guerrilla movement are quickly on Wylie’s trail, both
eager to kill Wylie and his entire trekking party. Wylie, his daughter, a local
guide, and his friend, an archeologist (who is more than he seems), and porters
set out using various ruses to throw their pursuers off track. Wylie narrowly
escapes from the local police after being tortured and losing a toe. But can
they cross the foreboding eighteen thousand foot high pass and make it to
Cajamarca in time to take the only safe flight home and deliver the documents?