One Last Shot by Susan May Warren EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Susan May Warren
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Boo couldn’t think of a worse way to die.
The kid was buried under tons of snow, lost in a crevasse, the
snowy mountainside simply opening up to gobble the ten-year-old
skier whole.
Yeah, no. “I’m going down there.” Boo slammed her ice axe closer to
the edge, testing the snow near the side of the crevasse where she sat.
Overhead, the sun gleamed, no help at all to forestall the peril on the
backside of one of the Copper Mountain resort ski area bowls. Just a little
more heat and the entire snowpack might release.
And of course, kill them all.
But that’s why she was here. And frankly, hanging off the side of a
mountain beat sitting in front of a warm hearth, watching reruns of Chicago
Fire.
Boo looked over at Axel, her fellow rescuer and the man holding her on
belay. “I need you to rig up a rappel system.”
He sat also, his feet dug into the snow, harnessed and anchored with
three points, his expression grim. He wore a wool hat, a pair of snow pants,
a bright red Air One jacket, helmet, and gloves. “I’m not sure this entire
crevasse won’t collapse if you do that. For sure, that snow bridge won’t
hold you.”
“It won’t have to. I won’t step on it. But Macie is frozen in fear. No
matter what I say, she can’t get that harness on. And I can guarantee you
that she can’t climb out on her own. So she needs help. Me.”
“Wait for the chopper, Boo.” This from London. The female climbing
expert had set up more anchors above them in case, indeed, the snowpack
decided to let loose and careen down over them all. Avalanche.
That’s what happened when you went skiing outside the boundary only
a day after the Alaskan sky dumped fresh powder on already melting snow.
A slippery, unsecured foundation that could turn lethal.
Macie’s parents refused to leave, of course, and they stood with Shep,
the team lead, some fifty feet away, out of the slide path. Shep barked into
his walkie, arguing with Moose, piloting the Air One chopper. So far, no
joy.
She’d heard Shep’s dispatch on the radio only moments ago. “The
winds are still too high for him to come in, and if he does, he’s going to
loosen this pack up with the rotor wash.”
She’d never been great at waiting anyway. So they needed to get
creative.
Crying found her, despite being muffled thirty feet down in the crevasse
where Macie lay, her leg twisted. They needed a splint, and a litter, and
frankly, luck.
Because beyond the snow bridge, into the depths of Copper Mountain,
the crevasse fell thousands of feet. And that snow bridge could give way
any moment.
Boo looked at London. “Either rig up a rappel system, or let me go and
I’ll climb down —”
Screaming cut off her words. Boo rolled over and peered down into the
hole.
Macie’s ski careened down the never-ending spout only to land at an
angle some hundred feet below.
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