This Mountain Life follows Martina Halik and her 60 year-old mother Tania as they embark on a six-month ski trek through the treacherous Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. This journey has only been completed once before, and never by a female duo.
Their adventure is interspersed with beautifully crafted portraits of high-altitude human endurance and passion - an avalanche survivor, a snowshoe artist, a snowbound convent - that are by turns captivating and inspiring.
Woven between their arduous and uplifting story are vignettes of others who have chosen a mountain life: a group of nuns inhabiting a mountain retreat to be closer to God; a photographer buried in an avalanche; an impassioned alpinist; a focused snow artist; a couple who has been living off grid in the mountains for nearly 50 years.
What is it that leads these adventurous people to sacrifice everything - comfort, family, personal safety - for a life in the mountains?