This film documents the extraordinary tale of the first attempts to climb Big Ben on Heard Island, Australia's most remote outpost.

Deep in the Southern Ocean, halfway between Australia and Africa, a snowy Volcano, 2,745 metres high, rises from the sea like a Great White Whale. Five times that Great White Whale of a mountain tried to kill the first team that tried to climb it.

Yet back they sailed, through the worst seas in the world, to try again, this time with the legendary Bill Tilman as skipper.