The King family wouldn't have lasted as long as they have in the remote, perilous Rockies if they didn't know a thing or two about survival. But even after all these years, the wilderness has a few surprises for them. There's something not quite right about a glacier high atop a peak near their valley. The Indians claim it's bad medicine and won't go near it. Of course, that doesn't stop Louisa King from cajoling her husband to go on a getaway up to the high country. But they can't fathom the savagery they're about to unleash. For something terrible lives on that glacier, something that craves flesh and doesn't care whether it's from a deer or an elk—or a human.