As grave as their situation is, the two stranded passengers resist despair, quickly taking stock of their surroundings and tools.
Ben quickly realizes that since their flight was unregistered, no one knows that they were passengers in the plane, and therefore, no one will come looking for them. Ben rushes to set Ashley’s leg in a makeshift cast before she wakes up and is unable to tolerate the intense pain.Īshley soon wakes, and, though coherent, is unable to move on her own. Though mainly unscathed, Ashley suffers a broken leg and Ben several broken ribs.
Ben awakes first, in an insulating cave of snow made by the force of the crash. In the impact, the pilot dies, but Ashley, Ben, and the pilot’s dog survive. Neither Ben nor Ashley knows how to pilot a plane nevertheless, they attempt to reduce its diving speed, crashing it on a mountaintop in the middle of the wild. He suffers a heart attack, leaving them to fend for themselves. Ashley and Ben learn a little about each other’s lives, but their trip is cut short when the pilot clutches his chest. They board the plane and begin their trip over the mountains towards home. Thinking it will be an interesting diversion from her anxiety about the wedding, she agrees. Since he is wealthy, he decides to hire a private charter plane and a pilot to fly him and Ashley to their homes. Ben is tired of being abroad and wants to get home as quickly as possible. Their flight is suddenly canceled, and Ashley worries about how it will affect her wedding itinerary. Ashley tells him that she is flying home to get married to her fiancé. Near his gate, he runs into Ashley, who is waiting to fly home on the same flight. The novel begins in winter, as Ben waits for his flight home in an airport terminal. In 2017, the plot was loosely adapted to a film of the same name. The novel became widely popular for its focus on problems of connection in the modern world, and the relationship of humans to the wilderness. Wounded during the crash, they battle for survival under harsh conditions along with a dog that escaped from the rubble. The Mountain Between Us (2011), a survival novel by American author Charles Martin, concerns the event and aftermath of a plane crash which strands Ben Payne and Ashley Knox in the mountainous wilderness of the southwest United States.
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