High Ground
In 1976, a plane carrying three tonnes of Mexican marijuana crashed into a frozen lake in Yosemite National Park. When the wreck was discovered, rangers assumed the winter conditions would keep the cargo secure until spring. They underestimated Yosemite’s climbers. Young, broke and hungry for adventure, they trekked into the wilderness, hacked through the ice and began hauling out bales of weed. Fifty years later, High Ground brings together the climbers, rangers, investigators and families who lived through it, separating fact from legend in a funny, thrilling and unexpectedly moving story of freedom, obsession, loss and mythmaking.
