The first block came down on his legs, so he saw it rather than felt it, the weight crushing his knee almost instantly. it was with a strange detachment that he realized that those were his legs and he was dying, but he'd nearly died once, likely actually died (though he did not remember it) and he felt no fear facing him now.

He closed his eyes as the glacier crumbled and fell, waiting for the warm arms of his wife, the beaming smile of his son...

But the only embrace he found was the cold, crushing ice and the death that it brought.