The Debt of the Blizzard

Summary

As the only high-altitude search and rescue operative in the country capable of traversing the Black Wind Gap without artificial anchors, I just received a private rescue contract worth thirty million dollars.

The missing person was trapped down a glacial crevasse at an altitude of 23,000 feet. A massive blizzard had completely sealed the mountain, and his oxygen tank had less than sixteen hours remaining.

Seven years ago, I too knelt just beyond the snowline and begged for a rescue.