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Driven by ambition, two climbers, Ashley Northwood and the narrator, embark on a perilous 1928 expedition to scale the unclimbed West face of Sierra Inti, the infamous Mountain of the Sun. They find an ancient cave containing a millennia-old child's mummy that recalls an eerie legend of Supay, Lord of Death. Trapped within a reality-bending labyrinth, the narrator faces escalating psychological torment, witnessing Northwood's demise and confronting the horrifying truth of an inescapable, choice-driven existence that blurs the lines between life, death, and free will. Comparable works include H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness, Algernon Blackwood, The Willows, Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths, Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Dan Simmons, The Terror.