Author: Charles R. Farabee
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN: 1589791827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
375 exciting tales of heroism and tragedy drawn from the nearly 150,000 search and rescue missions carried out by the National Park Service since 1872.
Death, Daring, and Disaster
Author: Charles R. Farabee
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN: 1589791827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
375 exciting tales of heroism and tragedy drawn from the nearly 150,000 search and rescue missions carried out by the National Park Service since 1872.
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN: 1589791827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
375 exciting tales of heroism and tragedy drawn from the nearly 150,000 search and rescue missions carried out by the National Park Service since 1872.
Death, Daring, and Disaster
Author: Charles R. Farabee
Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
375 exciting teales of heroism and tragedy drawn from the nearly 150,000 search and rescue missions carried out by the National Park Service since 1872.
Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
375 exciting teales of heroism and tragedy drawn from the nearly 150,000 search and rescue missions carried out by the National Park Service since 1872.
Death, Despair, and Second Chances in Rocky Mountain National Park
Author: Joseph R. Evans
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 1555664407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Nobody thought much of it when twelve-year-old Robert Baldeshwiler hiked out ahead of his family on the Flat-top Mountain Trail. But he would never be seen alive again. Each year, millions of people like the Baldeshwiler family come to Rocky Mountain National Park expecting nothing but a fine vacation. However, between the years of 1884 and 2009, almost three hundred people have died in the park. From taking sudden falls off steep trails, to sliding down treacherous snow fields to deadly rocks below, visitors have found out the hard way that the park is still a wild place full of potential hazards. Book jacket.
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 1555664407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Nobody thought much of it when twelve-year-old Robert Baldeshwiler hiked out ahead of his family on the Flat-top Mountain Trail. But he would never be seen alive again. Each year, millions of people like the Baldeshwiler family come to Rocky Mountain National Park expecting nothing but a fine vacation. However, between the years of 1884 and 2009, almost three hundred people have died in the park. From taking sudden falls off steep trails, to sliding down treacherous snow fields to deadly rocks below, visitors have found out the hard way that the park is still a wild place full of potential hazards. Book jacket.
A Bolt from the Blue
Author: Jennifer Woodlief
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451607083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
From the author of "A Wall of White," the thrilling account of a spectacular mountain rescue after six climbers are struck by lightning in the Upper Exum Ridge of the Grand Teton near a 13,000-foot elevation.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451607083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
From the author of "A Wall of White," the thrilling account of a spectacular mountain rescue after six climbers are struck by lightning in the Upper Exum Ridge of the Grand Teton near a 13,000-foot elevation.
Death in Yellowstone
Author: Lee H. Whittlesey
Publisher: Roberts Rinehart
ISBN: 1570984514
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
The chilling tome that launched an entire genre of books about the often gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our national parks, this updated edition of the classic includes calamities in Yellowstone from the past sixteen years, including the infamous grizzly bear attacks in the summer of 2011 as well as a fatal hot springs accident in 2000. In these accounts, written with sensitivity as cautionary tales about what to do and what not to do in one of our wildest national parks, Whittlesey recounts deaths ranging from tragedy to folly—from being caught in a freak avalanche to the goring of a photographer who just got a little too close to a bison. Armchair travelers and park visitors alike will be fascinated by this important book detailing the dangers awaiting in our first national park.
Publisher: Roberts Rinehart
ISBN: 1570984514
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
The chilling tome that launched an entire genre of books about the often gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our national parks, this updated edition of the classic includes calamities in Yellowstone from the past sixteen years, including the infamous grizzly bear attacks in the summer of 2011 as well as a fatal hot springs accident in 2000. In these accounts, written with sensitivity as cautionary tales about what to do and what not to do in one of our wildest national parks, Whittlesey recounts deaths ranging from tragedy to folly—from being caught in a freak avalanche to the goring of a photographer who just got a little too close to a bison. Armchair travelers and park visitors alike will be fascinated by this important book detailing the dangers awaiting in our first national park.
Big Walls, Swift Waters
Author: Charles R. Farabee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781930238749
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"Most of Yosemite's nearly 4 million annual visitors leave the park without a scratch. For a few, however, a vacation in this world-famous land of cliffs and waterfalls takes a turn for the terrifying. That's where the YOSAR team comes in ... [In this book], Butch Farabee relates epic tales of endurance and survival, misadventure and fatal consequences"--Amazon.com.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781930238749
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"Most of Yosemite's nearly 4 million annual visitors leave the park without a scratch. For a few, however, a vacation in this world-famous land of cliffs and waterfalls takes a turn for the terrifying. That's where the YOSAR team comes in ... [In this book], Butch Farabee relates epic tales of endurance and survival, misadventure and fatal consequences"--Amazon.com.
National Park Ranger
Author: Charles R. "Butch" Farabee, Jr.
Publisher: Roberts Rinehart
ISBN: 1570984468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
In this celebration of one of America's most enduring symbols, fromer ranger Butch Farabee brielfy revies the evolution of this national symbol.
Publisher: Roberts Rinehart
ISBN: 1570984468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
In this celebration of one of America's most enduring symbols, fromer ranger Butch Farabee brielfy revies the evolution of this national symbol.
Death In Big Bend
Author: Laurence Parent
Publisher: Laurence Parent Photography, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780974504872
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Most people visit Big Bend National Park and have a wonderful, incident-free vacation. For a tiny number, however, a simple mistake, unpreparedness, or pure bad luck has lead to catastrophe. Massive rescue efforts and fatalities, while rare, do happen at the park. Heat stroke, dehydration, hypothermia, drowning, falls, lightning, and even murder have claimed victims at Big Bend. This book chronicles selected rescues and tragedies that have happened there since the early 1980s. The lessons you learn reading this book may save your life.
Publisher: Laurence Parent Photography, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780974504872
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Most people visit Big Bend National Park and have a wonderful, incident-free vacation. For a tiny number, however, a simple mistake, unpreparedness, or pure bad luck has lead to catastrophe. Massive rescue efforts and fatalities, while rare, do happen at the park. Heat stroke, dehydration, hypothermia, drowning, falls, lightning, and even murder have claimed victims at Big Bend. This book chronicles selected rescues and tragedies that have happened there since the early 1980s. The lessons you learn reading this book may save your life.
Death, Daring, and Disaster
Author: Charles R. "Butch" Farabee, Jr.
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN: 1461661854
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
375 exciting tales of heroism and tragedy drawn from the nearly 150,000 search and rescue missions carried out by the National Park Service since 1872.
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN: 1461661854
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
375 exciting tales of heroism and tragedy drawn from the nearly 150,000 search and rescue missions carried out by the National Park Service since 1872.
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
Author: James M. Tabor
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393066851
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award Grand Prize Winner, Banff Mountain Book Festival "Forever on the Mountain grips even non-climbers with its harrowing scenes of thorny relationships tested by extraordinary circumstances." —Washington Post In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, were stranded at 20,000 feet on Alaska’s Mount McKinley in a vicious Arctic storm. Ten days passed while the storm raged, yet no rescue was mounted. All seven perished in what remains the most tragic expedition in American climbing history. Revisiting the event in the tradition of Norman Maclean’s Young Men and Fire, James M. Tabor uncovers elements of controversy, finger-pointing, and cover-up that make this disaster unlike any other.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393066851
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award Grand Prize Winner, Banff Mountain Book Festival "Forever on the Mountain grips even non-climbers with its harrowing scenes of thorny relationships tested by extraordinary circumstances." —Washington Post In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, were stranded at 20,000 feet on Alaska’s Mount McKinley in a vicious Arctic storm. Ten days passed while the storm raged, yet no rescue was mounted. All seven perished in what remains the most tragic expedition in American climbing history. Revisiting the event in the tradition of Norman Maclean’s Young Men and Fire, James M. Tabor uncovers elements of controversy, finger-pointing, and cover-up that make this disaster unlike any other.