Ridgelines A composite image of Ronnie Berlack, left, and Bryce Astle, aspiring ski racers who died in an avalanche in 2015. Courtesy image The incessant beeping of my iPhone jogged me awake. As a communications professional, those nighttime calls could mean a joyous race victory or something else. I knew we had no events. So it couldn’t be good. It was Monday morning, Jan. 5, 2015. I glanced at the clock — it was a little after 2 a.m. Our U.S. Ski Team chief of sport, Luke Bodensteiner, was on the line. He was calm. But his news was grave. About 30 minutes earlier in a snowfield high up in the alpine peaks of Sölden, Austria, an avalanche had swept away a group of U.S. Ski Team development athletes. Two had still not been found.