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It is the Great Depression and Amy McDonald hasn’t seen her father for ages. He is a mechanic in the Milford Road camps, where dozens of men have been sent to build a road tunnel through the mountains to take tourists to Milford Sound. When he sends for the family Amy has her life turned upside-down. In the rough work camps there is no school, shop or other children. They have to face the extremes of cold, hardship - and tragedy. All the while there hangs over them the threat of avalanches, with their terrifying destructive power ...