Benjamin Védrines and Nicolas Jean are tackling their first 8000 metre summit, Pakistan’s Broad Peak. Their goal: to achieve the ascent from base camp to summit in one, single day, without stopping at the usual altitude camps. The icing on the cake for Benjamin would be to break the speed record for climbing an 8000er and, once there, to launch himself with his paraglider. But in the death zone, even more than elsewhere in the mountains, not everything always goes to plan …