WHAT IS THE HIGH:BACKTRACKING THE IMPOSSIBLE ABOUT?
In the spring of 2010, I came across a facebook message from a friend in New York City telling of a man seeking someone to come document his race in the Himalayas covering the two highest motorable passes in the world. Following the thread, I connected with the man Rajat Chauhan an Indian sports medicine physician living in New Delhi. Growing up a skilled runner with unattained Olympic dreams, Rajat found himself in mid-life with a family, managing a chain of sports medicine clinics, and a need to find an outlet close to home for his running dreams. During a weekend challenge with friends running to Rohtang pass at 13,051 feet (or better known as the pass of piled corpses), he ended up getting cut short of his goal by a landslide and found himself sitting in a cafe staring at an elevation map of Leh-Manali highway. In an instant he discovered his running outlet right in his own backyard - the Himalayas and went to work making the highest altitude race in the world. Going up against the military’s opinion of its impossibility, family advice to reconsider, and friends backing away. He forged ahead working to make the impossible possible.
Hearing of this story I started to follow this man and his race. Traveling to India we began the making of THE HIGH documentary and were able to uncover the history and the challenge of the race. Now we are telling this story of how this one man has followed his dream and in the process ended up standing at the edge of the running world with only three others by his side, waiting to see what would happen. Set in the high desert of the Himalayas and crossing over the two highest passes in the world at 17,500+ feet, we watch the battle against dehydration, acclimatization, hypothermia, and drops-outs. We follow the life changing experiences and near death challenges. We uncover the emotion of believing in yourself against all odds and in the end unveil the reward of uncovering a path that was believed to be impossible. It will leave you questioning the roads you've turned away from and challenge you to want to go back and you can follow it all in, THE HIGH: BACKTRACK THE IMPOSSIBLE.
