\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim Kircher's husband's illness wasn't something she could blow up as she had done countless times on the ski slopes during avalanche control. Instead, Kim faced the biggest double black diamond ski run of her life as she listened to the doctors put her husband on the transplant list while he fought bile duct cancer.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cI\u003eThe Next 15 Minutes \u003c/I\u003eis Kim's high octane story of how she drew strength from her life among the ski slopes and of the daring world that showed her how to survive and fight back.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eKim Kircher\u003c/B\u003e has been an EMT with avalanche control at Crystal Mountain, Washington, for twenty years.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e