Thirteen young Boy Scouts climbed up to Half Dome, but only twelve came back down. Discovering what happened to the missing scout is Nick Falconi's task. He has been hired by Patrick Toomey to begin this quest. And what a quest it is He interviews artists, business men, hippies and priests to get to the facts. Yet the most difficult and most irrefutable fact is that the mystery of this missing scout occurred sixty-one years ago.