Cloud Piercer

Flight AN224 crashes high up in the Tasman Valley in the Mount Cook National Park, in New Zealand.

With many dead and injured, rescue operations are thwarted by bad weather, freezing temperatures and poor visibility. Seismic activity, earthquakes and avalanches continually threaten the passengers while they wait to be rescued.

With every new tremor brings with it more danger.

The Alpine fault line has destabilized and millions of tonnes of snow and ice, now fractured have become volatile and...