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Norman came round gasping. Trapped by his seatbelt, he was unable to breathe. Chest heaving he unclipped his buckle and looked around for his dad. No sign. But he could see the pilot ahead of him, strangely slumped in the snow.

Norman looked down. The mountain simply fell away below him. It was sheer ice and snow and then swirling cloud and roaring snow. One slip and you could fall forever.

He inched his way across the slope, digging his bare fingers into the ice for grip. His trainers squeaked against the snow. Then a piece of wreckage skittered away from him down the impossible slope. He scrabbled the rest of the way on his belly. When he reached the pilot he saw the man’s head was smashed open, his nose torn off and his brains were spilling from the back of his skull. He yelled for his dad.