What best describes the resolution?

• A. Peak decides to climb Everest regardless.
• B. Summiting Everest is not important to Peak; what is important lies below.
• C. Peak leaves his family forever.
• D. Peak wins the money.

Answer: (C)

Resolution is about how the story’s conflicts wrap up and what life looks like for the characters after the main events. In Peak, the end centers on Peak choosing his own path as a climber, which leads to a lasting shift in his relationship with his family. That pivotal move amounts to severing the old family dynamic as he commits to a future defined by independence and climbing. So describing the resolution as Peak leaving his family forever best captures this permanent, defining change in his life.

The other ideas miss that lasting relational shift: simply summiting Everest or chasing money doesn’t reflect the irreversible break with his family that the ending conveys.