Like everyone else in the airport, they are trying to outrun the storm that is inching ever closer. Waiting at the gate in the Salt Lake City aAirport, he meets a journalist from Atlanta making her way home to her six brides maids and a rehearsal dinner. The Mountain Between Us is the story of an orthopedic surgeon from Jacksonville headed home after a medical conference. In the dark, my fingers cold, my breath blowing like smoke, the snow just beginning to fall, our fire reduced to glowing red embers, I scratched the last question: The second night, at about two a.m., I lay staring up at a star-lit sky, thinking about my two characters. We rented snowmobiles and rode some sixty miles into the middle of that beautiful, magnificent, unforgiving landscape. Sometimes more. To me, its more Mars than Earth. Average snowfall is 500 to 700 inches a year. If you ever saw Jeremiah Johnson, thats where they filmed it. Months later, two friends and I traveled to the High Uintas Mountainsa wilderness spanning more than a million acres. What if she was headed home to her rehearsal dinner and a white dress? What if he was happily married, headed home to his wife?

What if it was a small plane carrying two total strangers? About a year ago, I was sitting in a plane at thirty-five thousand feet flying to Oregon, looked down upon Utahs snow-covered mountainsnot a lightbulb in sightand wondered, 'What if …' By the time the plane landed, Id scratched the following: Put me in the snow and I turn into a total wimp. How will they make it out of the wilderness and if they do, how will this experience change them forever? Heart-wrenching and unputdownable, The Mountain Between Us will reaffirm your belief in the power of love to sustain us. Without food or shelter, and only Bens mountain climbing gear to protect themselves, Ashley and Bens chances for survival look bleak, but their reliance on each other sparks an immediate connection, which soon evolves into something more.ĭays in the mountains become weeks, as their hope for rescue dwindles. But when unthinkable tragedy strikes, the pair find themselves stranded in Utahs most remote wilderness in the dead of winter, badly injured and miles from civilization. When a blizzard strands them in Salt Lake City, two strangers agree to charter a plane together, hoping to return home Ben Payne is a gifted surgeon returning from a conference, and Ashley Knox, a magazine writer, is en route to her wedding. An atmospheric, suspenseful and gripping story of two people finding love while fighting to survive. Now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba.

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