He climbed the collapsing ice wall. What he found at the bottom was worse.
The North Face ice field has stood for generations. Climbers trust it. Rangers trust it. The geological surveys call it stable. The surveys are wrong. A rapid freeze-thaw cycle is cracking the ice from within.
Through his binoculars, Cal Walker spots blood on the ice face and two climbers dangling by their axes, ropes snapped, two hundred feet above the canyon floor. He climbs the wall as hairline fractures multiply into a web of imminent collapse. Car-sized blocks of ice break free and plummet past him.
But the ice field isn't the only thing falling apart. In the burn zone below,
Someone has been using the mountain's natural disasters as cover. When armed men emerge from the smoke, the rescue becomes a firefight.
THE THAW is the sixth book in the Black Mountain Series — where the mountain's surface hides something far more dangerous underneath.
Genre: Mystery
The North Face ice field has stood for generations. Climbers trust it. Rangers trust it. The geological surveys call it stable. The surveys are wrong. A rapid freeze-thaw cycle is cracking the ice from within.
Through his binoculars, Cal Walker spots blood on the ice face and two climbers dangling by their axes, ropes snapped, two hundred feet above the canyon floor. He climbs the wall as hairline fractures multiply into a web of imminent collapse. Car-sized blocks of ice break free and plummet past him.
But the ice field isn't the only thing falling apart. In the burn zone below,
Someone has been using the mountain's natural disasters as cover. When armed men emerge from the smoke, the rescue becomes a firefight.
THE THAW is the sixth book in the Black Mountain Series — where the mountain's surface hides something far more dangerous underneath.
Genre: Mystery