The Boy and the Mountain is an exciting tale of myth and reality, a story of growing up, and above all, an adventure. Tam Goatland's world is bounded by the impassable Mountain on whose slopes his peoples graze their goats. They tell stories of the world beyond - tales of Hina the madwoman, of Pela, the first goatherd, of the Grey One, the great wolf who they fear. But the Mountain itself no man has ever crossed, and none know what may lie on its farther slopes. Until, one night, harsh winter comes early to the little settlement on the slopes, and Tam finds himself thrown into adventures that will take him far beyond the confines of his little world...