She died on Everest. But the mountain was not finished with her.

Ariana Hale has always heard something others could not—a whisper in the snow, a presence in the silence.

Drawn by a force she cannot explain, she leaves Canada behind and journeys to the most dangerous place on Earth: Mount Everest.

Everest tests her, breaks her—and finally takes her.

Buried beneath ice in a devastating avalanche, Ariana should have become another name lost to the mountain. Instead, something impossible happens.

She survives. But not in the way the world understands.

Suspended between life and death, her body lies frozen in time while her soul crosses into a realm beyond science and logic.

Years later, deep in the Himalayas, she is found alive—but with no memory of who she was.

Two lives. Two worlds. One impossible choice.

As Ariana begins a new life among those who saved her, fragments of her past return: a family waiting in Canada, a love she once knew, and a truth powerful enough to shatter both worlds.

Inspired by real experiences near Mount Everest, The Girl Beneath The Ice blends survival, adventure, mystery, Himalayan spirituality, near-death experience, memory, reincarnation, rebirth, and a love that transcends life and death.

Written by Dr. Binod M. Baral, who worked in the remote Solukhumbu region of Nepal, this is a journey into the mysteries of survival, identity, consciousness, love and what may lie beyond death.