Jarvis Glacier by Brian K. Jones
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Overview: Never mess with a geologist.
Ron Walker is a consulting geologist recovering from a catastrophic helicopter crash. After months of treatment and physical therapy he is ready to return to his work as a field geologist in Alaska. His assignment is Jarvis Glacier.
Ron Walker finds himself working for two crazy placer miners, Vern Huggins and Reed. They are mining a small gold placer deposit in the gravel at the toe of the glacier. They want Ron to find the source of this gold, the Mother Lode. He makes a detailed geologic map of the area around the glacier and the results are indisputable. The only possible source of the gold is inaccessible, lying deep beneath the ice. A large, angry river carves a tunnel along the base of the glacier. Fed by glacial melt water, the river plucks the gold from the rock and distributes it in the placer deposit of the outwash plain. Only a fool would attempt to go up this river to find the gold source. Only a fool or two crazy placer miners.
Ron contracts a geophysicist, Stephen Boulanger, to assist in the evaluation of the location of the lode gold deposit. His work confirms Ron’s geologic interpretation. One evening at the cabin of the placer miners, Stephen mentions that it would be possible to access the lode gold source in winter when the outwash river is frozen. The placer miners are riveted by this idea and plan an expedition to explore for the gold under Jarvis Glacier. But Ron is terrified by Stephen’s comments. Any attempt by these placer miners, who have no experience in working on ice, no experience with crampons, jumars, cross-country skiing, or roping techniques would end in disaster.
Vern Huggins’ niece, Kelly, is the cook at the placer miner’s camp. She is a slender, soft-spoken brunette, who stands up boldly against any of Vern’s crazy comments. Ron finds himself strangely attracted to her because of her internal strength and here interest in literature.
Any attempt to organize an expedition in winter to explore under the ice is abandoned and Ron and Stephen move off to central Alaska to work on another project. They stay in central Alaska for several months until winter grips the interior of the state. That’s when they receive a call from Reed, in panic because Kelly has disappeared. Ron and Stephen immediately return to the placer camp near Jarvis Glacier. They’re not certain, but the answer to Kelly’s disappearance may lie beneath the river of ice and snow and water and rock that is called Jarvis Glacier.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
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