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Hurlen-Patano unzipped her jacket,pulled out her phone,and made a call,"Bring
help!
That morning,Ken Scott bumped into his friend Rebecca Hurlen-Patano in Silver
Mountain Resort.They noticed that the 6200-foot Wardner Peak,home to the challenging
expert-level route,was now open.It had been closed all season over concerns about an
avalanche,sudden fall of a mass of snow.
"Let's go for it !Hurlen-Patano proposed.
Almost immediately they took off from that peak,the snow beneath gave way.In a
millisecond,"Avalanche !she yelled to Scott.
Hurlen-Patano had ended up partially buried and managed to pull herself out.She
looked uphill to where she'd last seen Scott and shouted his name.No response.Then she
made the call.
Word spread quickly,and soon professional rescuers and skiers were heading to the
avalanche site with tools.Like a commander,Hurlen-Patano stayed calm and pointed out
possible places.Rescuers formed a line along the slope,and positioned their ten-foot poles
down into the deep snow,hoping to hit and locate the buried skier.
Under the weight of the snow,Scott was totally immobile,and he couldn't expand his
chest enough to take a full breath.He knew death was just a matter of time,but this was not
the way he wanted to die.
He fought to stay optimistic by focusing on breathing.But a group of his close friends
who had lost their lives in an avalanche emerged in his mind.Then a feeling of warmth struck
him and he knew it was a sign of hypothermia(体温过e.“T'm going to join them.”
The key 30-minute survival time had come and gone.
He felt a slight pressure.He anxiously prayed to feel it again.A minute passed,then two.
Nothing.The only flash of hope disappeared.He felt himself fading away.Suddenly,the
pressure on his body seemed to be changing.He started shouting,hoping anyone standing
above would hear.Five minutes later,he breathed in fresh air deeply and saw the sky a