“For a Backpacker magazine article about Pam Bales’s solo hike that turned into a dire mission to rescue a man she found on a frozen mountain. The experience left her with more questions than answers, and in the end, it turned out she had saved a man who wanted to commit suicide. Art director Erin Douglas and I tried to depict the emotions that Bales felt throughout her mission. I especially focused on her feelings upon finding the man in the heavy snow, and her delicate emotions on their way back down from the mountain. Her brave actions could save a man who once stood at the end of life, to live again with hope. After publication, I got a message from Bales that she was impressed by the work, which is maybe the most magical moment of any illustrator’s job.”