Having managed to arrange the evacuation of ninety-odd British civilians from the clutches of the marauding Chinese army, diplomat “Conway” (Ronald Colman) is now on a plane with his brother “George” (John Howard) and a few others heading for the safety of Shanghai. What they don’t realise, though, is that their plane was hijacked on the airfield and is heading in completely the wrong direction. After a whistle-stop refuelling pit-stop, the plane crash-lands high in the Himalayan mountains and things look bleak with the ill-equipped party reduced to eating grass and sheltering in their broken ...