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Avalanche

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It was cold sunny winter's day, and young 19 year old girl named Kiara Sheppard was heading up to the top of Mount Kosciusko in a helicopter.   She had long blonde hair that went down to the bottom of her back that she had braided into one long braid. Her blue eyes had excitement beaming out of them as she looked out the helicopter to the mountain that was covered in snow. She was planning to snowboard down the mountain from the top all the way down to the bottom.

She had been planning this day for two years. When she was 14, Kiara and her family had travelled to Canada for a skiing trip. While she was over there Kiara had decided to try snowboarding. She enjoyed it so much that she wanted to get better at it.

Two years ago from this very day, her best friend Abby was joking around and dared her to snowboard down Mount Kosciusko. When Kiara heard this she started to think, and eventually decided that she wanted to, her real dream was to become a part of the Olympic team for the snowboarding team, in half pipe and the downhill racing, but she thought that this would be a good thing to aim until then.

She had been thinking about all she had to go through to make this day possible when the pilot yelled out "where here!"

The helicopter hovered about a metre above the ground and Kiara hopped out with her backpack full of gear and her snowboard. After she cleared the helicopter to leave, she decided to make sure she had everything in her bag.

She opened the bag and start pulling everything out, one by one. Her lunch bag was the first thing she pulled out, she opened up and check what was in it, a tub of vanilla yogurt and a spoon, a Fuji apple, a juice box, a muesli bar and a snickers bar. after that she check that everything was in there, mainly they where emergency supplies e.g. first aid kit, a torch with spare batteries and globes, blankets, rope, spare food and water,  a radio and a EPIRB just in case something really bad happened.

Kiara packed everything up again, clipped on her helmet and her snowboard, stood up and stood around to look at the view for a while. It took her a couple of minutes to realize she was really going to do this; she was really going to snowboard down the tallest mountain in Australia.

Finally she started on down the mountain, while she was snowboarding down the mountain, she was thinking to herself if I can accomplish this then there is nothing that can stop from accomplishing my dream of being a part of the winter Olympic team.

After snowboarding for about three and a half hours, Kiara decided that now would be a good time to find somewhere to stop for lunch. After about fifteen minutes she found a cave, so she went inside and sat down on a rather uncomfortable rock.

She pulled out her lunch bag and started to enjoy the food she had packed. She was half way through her apple when she suddenly felt the ground rumbling; she walked out the cave and look up the mountain. She was shocked and scared when she saw an avalanche was rushing down the mountain.

She rushed inside and grabbed her snowboard, but by the time she had clipped it on the avalanche and come down and covered the entrance of the cave. She unclipped her snowboard and ran over to where the snow have covered the entrance and started digging. For thirty minutes she had been digging, and had only dug a tunnel that went for about two and a half metres, when she remembered she had an EPIRB. She ran over and searched through her bag and when she found it, pulled it out and activated the emergency signal.
After activating the EPIRB she decided to continue digging. She only got another fifty centimetres before the tunnel collapse. After that happened she gave up on the tunnel, and decided just to wait. After about thirty minutes she could feel her body temperature dropping, she had already been shivering for 20 minutes, and she didn't know how much longer she could go before slipping into hypothermia.

It was getting harder and harder for her to stay awake, and as she fought to stay awake, all the memories of her life started to come into her head. This cause Kiara to become very worried because she had heard stories of things like this happening just before people died.

ten minutes later she saw a bright light appear near the entrance of the cave, and she started hearing voices, at that point knowing that she was about to get rescued she gave up and fell asleep.
Later she woke up in a hospital and few moments later a nurse came over, and asked her a few questions just to make sure she still knew who she was. The nurse then told her that she had serve hypothermia. She lay there thinking for a while, most people would give up their dream after having something like happened to them but not me she thought, I am going to get back up and continue my fight to achieve dream, everyone is bound to get setbacks like this in their life, but they are just supposed to learn from them, and get back on track.

She then fell back to sleep with bigger confidence in completing her dream then she did before snowboarding down Mount Kosciusko.
This was a story that i had to write for english class, and thought that people on dA might like it.

Any Criticism is welcome, it will all help for me to become a better writer:D

hope you enjoy :D
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