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Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain
Author | : Bruce Tremper |
Publisher | : The Mountaineers Books |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780898868340 |
Winter recreation in the mountains has increased steadily over the past few years, and so has the number of deaths and injuries caused by avalanches. Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain covers everything you need to know to avoid trouble in avalanche terrain: what avalanches are and how they work, common myths, human activities that lead to avalanche trouble, what happens to victims when an avalanche occurs, and rescue techniques. Provides step- by-step instruction for determining avalanche hazards, using safe travel technique, and making effective rescues.
Whiter Than Snow
Author | : Sandra Dallas |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429934352 |
From The New York Times bestselling author of Prayers for Sale comes the moving and powerful story of a small town after a devastating avalanche, and the life changing effects it has on the people who live there Whiter Than Snow opens in 1920, on a spring afternoon in Swandyke, a small town near Colorado's Tenmile Range. Just moments after four o'clock, a large split of snow separates from Jubilee Mountain high above the tiny hamlet and hurtles down the rocky slope, enveloping everything in its path including nine young children who are walking home from school. But only four children survive. Whiter Than Snow takes you into the lives of each of these families: There's Lucy and Dolly Patch—two sisters, long estranged by a shocking betrayal. Joe Cobb, Swandyke's only black resident, whose love for his daughter Jane forces him to flee Alabama. There's Grace Foote, who hides secrets and scandal that belies her genteel façade. And Minder Evans, a civil war veteran who considers his cowardice his greatest sin. Finally, there's Essie Snowball, born Esther Schnable to conservative Jewish parents, but who now works as a prostitute and hides her child's parentage from all the world. Ultimately, each story serves as an allegory to the greater theme of the novel by echoing that fate, chance, and perhaps even divine providence, are all woven into the fabric of everyday life. And it's through each character's defining moment in his or her past that the reader understands how each child has become its parent's purpose for living. In the end, it's a novel of forgiveness, redemption, survival, faith and family.
Avalanche Safety for Skiers & Climbers
Author | : Tony Daffern |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Avalanches |
ISBN | : 9780906371268 |
This is a handbook for anyone venturing above the snow-line in winter or summer. The writer explains how to avoid avalanche accidents through observation, recognition of avalanche terrain and good route-finding. This advice is reinforced by a variety of case histories from around the world. The second edition incorporates up-to-date techniques and equipment and also addresses the problem of stability evaluation for back-country telemarkers, snowboarders and extreme skiers.
Snow Sense
Author | : Jill A. Fredston |
Publisher | : Alaska Mountain Safety Center, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780964399402 |
Book which focuses on teaching backcountry travellers to recognize, evaluate, and avoid avalanche hazards by gathering available key information and clues from the snowpack, weather, and terrain.
The Avalanche Book
Author | : Betsy R. Armstrong |
Publisher | : Fulcrum Group |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Snow Avalanche Hazards and Mitigation in the United States
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 1990-02-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309043352 |
The present mortality as a result of snow avalanches exceeds the average mortality caused by earthquakes as well as all other forms of slope failure combined. Snow avalanches can range from small amounts of loose snow moving rapidly down a slope to slab avalanches, in which large chunks of snow break off and destroy everything in their path. Although considered a hazard in the United States since the westward expansion in the nineteenth century, in modern times snow avalanches are an increasing concern in recreational mountainous areas. However, programs for snow avalanche hazard mitigation in other countries are far ahead of those in the United States. The book identifies several steps that should be taken by the United States in order to establish guidelines for research, technology transfer, and avalanche legislation and zoning.
Nightmare Mountain
Author | : Peg Kehret |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 1999-09-27 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101660856 |
As soon as Molly arrives at her aunt and uncle's ranch in rural Washington, things start to go very wrong. Her cousin hates her on sight. Her aunt falls into a mysterious coma. Then, left alone on the huge property, Molly and her cousin discover an intruder lurking in the barn! Armed and desperate, he drags them to the top of a nearby mountain--and triggers an avalanche with a gunshot. Can they make it down the mountain alive?
Avalanche Handbook
Author | : Ronald I. Perla |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Avalanches |
ISBN | : |
Deals comprehensively and practically with effects, causes and behaviour of avalanches, protection of ski areas, highways and villages, and safety and rescue.