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The mountain groans above you. Cracks break through the ice. One piece, sharp as a dagger, slides off and hits the snow by your boots. More groans resound above as if the mountain is alive. As if it wants you dead. A larger chunk falls off and splinters into a thousand shards just behind you. You run, but how can you outrun an avalanche? Ice pelts your face, nips at ...