The Search Party on Mount Hood

In February 2018, a group of hikers on Oregon's Mount Hood lost their trail in a sudden whiteout. Temperatures plunged. Their GPS failed. For six hours, they huddled behind a rock outcropping, rationing a single thermos of coffee and praying aloud together — strangers who had met on the trailhead that morning. When the rescue helicopter finally spotted them, the pilot later said something remarkable: "They weren't scattered.…