The Rescue of Belle and Sundance

Birgit Stutz

In December 2008 snowmobilers spot two abandoned horses high in the Canadian Rockies. Starving and frostbitten the horses have trampled the ten-foot-deep snow into a narrow white prison. Those who reach them bring hay but also a gun in case the horses are too far gone. A glint of life in the horses' eyes earns them the hay.

The harrowing yet inspiring story of their near impossible rescue -- involving the volunteer efforts of an entire village first the excavation of a trench six feet deep and over 3280 feet long and then a nearly 20 mile descent at negative 40 degrees -- is sure to be read in one breathless sitting.>