Jessica Saint-Cloud's helicopter crashes in the Himalayas, leaving one of her best friends barely clinging to consciousness, and forcing her to help the group through a vicious snow storm and freezing temperatures. With the help of new friends and a mysterious healing crystal, they survive, only to learn there are more sinister forces in the mountains, threatening them at every turn. When Jessica's father is kidnapped by a band of foreign special forces, Jessica and her friends must figure out the mystery of the coin her mother left her that provides clues to the only thing that can free her father and save them all: The Crystal of the Himalayas...