Mountain Runaways

When an avalanche in the Canadian Rockies kills their parents, the three Gunnarsson children face another threat: Children's Services plans to separate them. Jon, Korka and Aron decide to run away into the mountains and fend for themselves until the oldest turns eighteen and can become their legal guardian.

Few young people would dare try it, but their parents ran a survival school, and the kids have wilderness skills. Their plan still turns out to be full of holes. Food and equipment go missing, and illness and injury strike. They are even less prepared for encounters with dangerous animals and a sketchy woods dweller. Grief, cold, hunger and fighting among siblings threaten to tear them apart, while search parties close in.

The story asks whether Jon, Korka and Aron really have what it takes to survive in the Rocky Mountains.