Chapter 54: The whistle of life across the avalanche
After the avalanche, Allison is shocked to find that her husband is gone. She was left alone on the snowy slopes, and an unprecedented sense of fear suddenly seized her heart.
After a brief panic, Allison calmed down.
Although the wind and snow were still raging, she shook the ice axe vigorously regardless of the situation, and used all her strength to cut the ice. The moment she struggled to pull her ice axe out of the ice, Allison was pushed by the wind and staggered, nearly rolling down the slope.
She has no way of knowing where her husband is, but she assumes that Gray is still alive.
"He must be waiting for me somewhere in the snow peak." Allison said in her heart.
Although the avalanche has passed, the mountain is still full of wind and snow, and the visibility on the slopes is only about 10 meters. With the help of an ice axe, Allison moved down the hill step by step.
Concerned about her husband's safety, she shouted every few minutes, "Gray-Gray-", and the only thing that answered her was the sound of the cry......
I don't know how long it took, but the exhausted Allison descended to a cliff halfway up the mountain.
She remembered that she and Gray had rested here a few hours earlier. Looking around, Allison noticed that there were more ice slags and snow blocks among the uneven rocks on the cliff. Apparently, it was left over from the avalanche just now when it passed over the cliff.
Looking at the end of the cliff, Allison's heart tightened suddenly, could it be that Gray had fallen off the cliff?
Allison stumbled towards the end of the cliff, trying to get to the edge of the cliff.
Through the soft snow, she suddenly stepped on a metal object, like an ice shovel!
Allison happily bent down to pick up the snow, and she recognized it as the ice shovel Gray had carried! Allison was frightened and frightened at the moment, which indicated that her husband was most likely nearby.
When she set out from camp early in the morning, she was impressed by the blunt opening on the ice shovel.
Now, Alison knows that too. Gray was most likely swept off the cliff by an avalanche! Most of the husbands are fierce and unlucky.
She trembled to the edge of the cliff, but unexpectedly found that the bottom of the cliff was not unfathomable!
About 50 meters below the cliff is the valley floor, and the accumulation left by the avalanche is clearly visible, and Allison immediately makes a brave decision to go down the cliff to find her husband!
Allison retrieved the climbing rope from her backpack and secured one end of the rope with an ice pick in a crack in the rock. Then lower the nylon rope along the cliff wall.
After the 50-meter-long nylon rope is suspended in the air, the end is nearly 20 meters away from the valley floor. However, Alison, who was eager to save her husband, couldn't care so much. Allison slid down the nylon rope, and when she reached the end of the rope, she gritted her teeth as she hung in midair.
After a brief moment of thought, she closed her eyes and let go of her hands......
After "freefalling" in the air for about 20 meters, she fell heavily on the snow. After landing, her body slid uncontrollably down at a rapid speed. Until she slammed into a rock. The pain in the heels caused Allison to scream.
As she struggled to sit up, she found that the crampons on the bottom of her hiking boots had broken. Both heels had been fractured, and she couldn't stand up at all. What a disaster! Before her husband could be found, she was accidentally injured again, and Allison was almost desperate.
I don't know when the blizzard has stopped.
A distraught Alison sat helplessly on the snow.
Inadvertently, she saw that the slope was smooth and flat 100 meters away, with no signs of avalanches. This means that the avalanche has arrived here at the end of its crossbow. The missing Gray is most likely under a nearby snowdrift!
Allison's heart pounded, and she knew that the person buried under the snowdrift would not wake up in time. The danger of freezing to death or suffocation is very high.
Allison realizes that she has to compete with death. With both feet injured and unable to walk, Allison crawled through the snow with amazing perseverance. As he crawled, he shouted as hard as he could, "Gray...... Where are you? ”
Alison cried out hoarsely, the valley was dead silent, and her heart was dying.
At this moment, Allison suddenly remembered the past of her and her husband's previous mountain climbing.
Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, and the snow-capped peaks of Fitzroy in the Andes of South America. In the Alpine Mountains on the territory of Austria. She and Gray have been on many thrilling mountain trips.
They have also encountered blizzards and avalanches, but God willing, they have turned the tide of danger every time they are in distress.
Only once, in the glacial areas of the Alps. She stumbled into a crack in the ice that was not easy to find, and she whistled desperately. Gray followed the whistle to find her and pulled her out of the ice with a rope......
Whistle! It occurred to Allison that she and her husband both carried whistles with them! I can't shout hoarsely in my throat, I can blow the whistle!
It was as if she had been injected with a shot in the arm, and she was crawling forward hopefully near the snowdrift and blowing her whistle vigorously. The crisp and loud whistle echoed in the silent snow-capped mountains, spreading extremely far.
Fate sometimes plays tricks on people, and when Allison risks her life and resolutely falls off the cliff, what she never expects is that Gray is actually unconscious in the snowdrift on the cliff.
It turned out that when an avalanche with a speed of at least 5o miles per hour roared down from the summit of Gellach, Gray, who had not had time to insert an ice shovel into the ice, was swept away by the fierce avalanche in an instant.
The raging avalanche threw him into the air and then on the snow, but Gray wore a thick mountaineering suit.
As the ice and snow dragged him across the jagged rocks, Gray struggled to make a paddling motion with his ice shovel so that his head was exposed to the snow.
Thankfully, the avalanche was small, and after about 2,000 feet of hard fall, the avalanche slowed down when it reached the cliff.
Gray tried to cling to a rock that had risen abruptly, but he was distracted, and the ice shovel in his hand was knocked out by the rock. Immediately afterward, Gray's head hit the rock hard, and his eyes went black and he lost consciousness.
In fact, he had a bloody hole in his head, and the blood was bleeding profusely. Fortunately, the avalanche buried him under the ice and snow, and the low temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius caused the blood from the head wound to quickly coagulate.
The crevices created by the ice blocks of different sizes and shapes prevented Gray from suffocating from the lack of oxygen when he was buried in the snowdrift.
I don't know how long it took, but Gray finally regained consciousness in a coma. He heard a staccato whistle, a pleasant whistle that seemed to come from heaven.
In a trance, he saw his wife looking at him sadly and asked him why he didn't blow the whistle while lying in the ice cave.
Gray tried to stand up, but felt himself being pressed by the ice and couldn't move, and a wave of dizziness hit him, and he passed out again. (To be continued......)