Deaf hiker falls 700 feet, but when rescuers finally find her, she isn’t alone

Amelia Milling set out for a solo three-day hike in Alaska, craving challenge, not comfort. The climb turned into a nightmare when she slipped, hurtled down 600 feet of snow and ice, and came to rest battered, disoriented, and utterly alone. She could walk, but she was lost, freezing, and more than a day from help. In that vast white silence, fear pressed in from every side.