Paper Avalanche
Author: Lisa Williamson
Publisher:
Published: 2018-07
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781910989968
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Snowstruck
Author: Jill Fredston
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780156032544
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An avalanche expert and predictor explores the often deadly nature of avalanches, sharing dramatic rescue and escape stories, including those of a skier who was forced to make a life-and-death decision and the race to save a buried victim.
Buried
Author: Ken Wylie
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Published: 2014-10-07
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1771600284
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On January 20, 2003, at 10:45 a.m., a massive avalanche in the Selkirk Range of British Columbia struck three members of two guided backcountry skiing groups and buried them. After a frantic hour of digging by those still standing, an unthinkable outcome became reality: seven people were dead. The tragedy made international news, splashing photos of the seven dead Canadian and US skiers on television screens and newspaper pages. The official analysis was that guide error was not a contributing factor in the accident. This interpretation was insufficient for some of the victims’ families, the public and some members of the guiding community. Buried is the assistant guide’s story. It renders an answerable truth about what happened by delving deep into the human factors that played into putting people in harm’s way as well as the peace that comes from accountability and the personal growth that results from understanding.
Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain
Author: Bruce Tremper
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780898868340
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Avalanche Search and Rescue
Author: Alexis Alloway
Publisher:
Published: 2020-01-10
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781734176148
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Author: Ellen Schwartz
Publisher: Tundra Books
Published: 2010-10-12
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1770492291
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gwen lives for dancing. When she has the chance to take an intensive - and expensive - course far from home, she knows her parents will object. She also knows that she can usually convince her father to support her. She raises the subject when they're together skiing, but the discussion turns into an angry confrontation that is cut short by a sudden dreadful avalanche that almost kills her dad. The avalanche leaves terrible damage in its wake. Gwen is left wracked with guilt and injuries that may end her career as a dancer. Her life is complicated by her best friend, Molly. Molly has her own demons, and may either be a danger to Gwen or part of her salvation. Gwen must find a way to make peace with Molly, with her family, and with her own conscience if she is ever again going to experience the freedom that dancing brought her.
All About Mia
Author: Lisa Williamson
Publisher: David Fickling Books
Published: 2017-02-02
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1910989126
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mia's two sisters are pretty much perfect, but Mia's life is a series of disasters.Fuelled by alcohol and insecurities, she betrays one of her best friends in the worst way imaginable.But will her little sister going missing finally make her realise making everything All About Mia just isn't going to cut it any more?It's time to grow up and face reality.
Snow Sense
Author: Jill A. Fredston
Publisher: Alaska Mountain Safety Center, Incorporated
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780964399402
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Paper Cadavers
Author: Kirsten Weld
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2014-03-21
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 082237658X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret police archives, Kirsten Weld probes the politics of memory, the wages of the Cold War, and the stakes of historical knowledge production. After Guatemala's bloody thirty-six years of civil war (1960–1996), silence and impunity reigned. That is, until 2005, when human rights investigators stumbled on the archives of the country's National Police, which, at 75 million pages, proved to be the largest trove of secret state records ever found in Latin America. The unearthing of the archives renewed fierce debates about history, memory, and justice. In Paper Cadavers, Weld explores Guatemala's struggles to manage this avalanche of evidence of past war crimes, providing a firsthand look at how postwar justice activists worked to reconfigure terror archives into implements of social change. Tracing the history of the police files as they were transformed from weapons of counterinsurgency into tools for post-conflict reckoning, Weld sheds light on the country's fraught transition from war to an uneasy peace, reflecting on how societies forget and remember political violence.
Snow Avalanche Hazards and Mitigation in the United States
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1990-02-01
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 0309043352
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
