S.A.R.

When we first meet Skyeler, she’s a high-intensity ski-mountaineer and rock climber, willing to toe the line in search of high peaks and impressive ascents. She and her fiancé, Tim, are attempting to ski the iconic Coors Face on Wilson Peak when they trigger a massive avalanche just below the couloir, causing both of them to get caught and buried.

18 months later, Skyeler has recovered, mostly. Tim didn’t make it. Since the avalanche, Skye’s been drifting from climbing destination to climbing destination, unable to perform athletically and haunted by Tim’s death– which she believes to be her fault. While she’s parked outside The Black Canyon of the Gunnison, she gets a knock on her van door from A.J., a member of the Black Canyon Search and Rescue (B.C.S.A.R.) team and the person Skye was having an affair with prior to Tim’s death.

A climber fell 30ft and was left unresponsive by their partner over 100ft up the cliff, and A.J. needs help with the rescue. Because Skye’s been drifting for the last year and a half, she needs the small paycheck that accompanies working this op. She accepts, and she’s thrown back into the high-stakes S.A.R. operation with many familiar faces. Most of whom haven’t seen her since Tim’s funeral.

Skye and A.J. work through problem after problem to get the injured climber off the wall and into a safe zone for a helicopter to land in order to save the climber’s life. Skyeler, all the while having to confront the accident that changed her life and the part she played in it.