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Product Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100151012490
ISBN-139780151012497
eBay Product ID (ePID)45588624
Product Key Features
Book TitleSnowstruck : in the Grip of Avalanches
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicNatural Disasters, Mountaineering, United States / West / Pacific (Ak, CA, Hi, Or, Wa)
Publication Year2005
IllustratorYes
GenreNature, Travel, Sports & Recreation
AuthorJill Fredston, Jill A. Fredston
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight21.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-020454
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsPRAISE FOR ROWING TO LATITUDE "[Fredston's] account will fascinate adventure-narrative enthusiasts . . . Full of intriguing personal digressions and moments of high drama . . . Rowing to Latitude often reads like an explorer's journal."-- The Wall Street Journal "The book is far more . . . than an adventure travel narrative. It also is a deeply personal memoir and love story."-- The Salt Lake Tribune, PRAISE FOR ROWING TO LATITUDE "[Fredston's] account will fascinate adventure-narrative enthusiasts . . . Full of intriguing personal digressions and moments of high drama . . . Rowing to Latitude often reads like an explorer's journal."--The Wall Street Journal "The book is far more . . . than an adventure travel narrative. It also is a deeply personal memoir and love story.", PRAISE FOR SNOWSTRUCK "Gripping . . . while her thrilling, sometimes tragic, accounts of victims and rescuers alike keep the pages flying by, it's Fredston's larger preoccupation with humanity's need to flirt with danger that gives the book its overarching grandeur and heft."-- Elle "Fredston's writing is so vibrant you almost want to pull on a down parka while reading her tales of calamitous snowslides and dangerous helicopter rescues."-- The Washington Post Book World , PRAISE FOR SNOWSTRUCK "Gripping . . . while her thrilling, sometimes tragic, accounts of victims and rescuers alike keep the pages flying by, it's Fredston's larger preoccupation with humanity's need to flirt with danger that gives the book its overarching grandeur and heft."-- Elle "Fredston's writing is so vibrant you almost want to pull on a down parka while reading her tales of calamitous snowslides and dangerous helicopter rescues."-- The Washington Post Book World, PRAISE FOR ROWING TO LATITUDE "[Fredston's] account will fascinate adventure-narrative enthusiasts . . . Full of intriguing personal digressions and moments of high drama . . .Rowing to Latitudeoften reads like an explorer's journal."--The Wall Street Journal "The book is far more . . . than an adventure travel narrative. It also is a deeply personal memoir and love story."--The Salt Lake Tribune, Co-director, with her husband, Doug Fesler, of the Alaska Mountain Safety Center, the author is an expert on both the beauty and dangers of snowy mountain ranges. Combining the expressive reverence for nature evident in an earlier work, Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge, with her own experiences, Fredston sounds a wake-up call to those who ski, hike or drive snow machines through snow-packed peaks and passes. Avalanches, she says, are not completely unpredictable, and can be avoided by reading the snow scrupulously and picking routes carefully. Drawing also on her husband's research on the history of avalanches in Alaska, Fredston describes how she and Fesler teach those who enjoy the mountains the best ways to minimize their risk. She presents harrowing accounts of rescue efforts the two have led, highlighting fatal accidents that might have been avoided. Fredston details, for example, the death of her friend Todd, an experienced skier, whose joy in the sport overcame caution when he and his comrades embarked on a last run that sparked a deadly avalanche. Fredston conveys the emotional toll too many mountain deaths have taken on the couple as well as their sense of mission to prevent future tragedies., This seems to be the era of a genre perhaps best called nature-adventure-disaster. Fredston, who lives with her husband in the mountains above Anchorage, Alaska, has spent the years tracking avalanches in an effort to prevent disasters. Fredston has rescued many skiers trapped by avalanches--one was so deeply entombed that he could only move one finger. She says that avalanches most often kill by suffocation, although broken necks and other forms of fatal trauma have become increasingly common as people jump into ever more ruthless terrain. "Poisoned by their own carbon dioxide emissions, most victims begin to lose consciousness within four minutes, which is a good thing, as they will use air at a slower rate," she writes. "Brain damage may set in after eight minutes." Fredston writes that avalanches are like fish; they tend to run in schools, and when one has occurred, more are likely. With black-and-white photography throughout, this book is an electrifying account of the dangers of avalanches, their causes, their victims, and--thanks to Fredston--sometimes their victims' rescue.
Dewey Decimal551.3/07
Table Of ContentMoments of Truth 2 Union of Circumstance 36 Unburying the Past 70 A Walk in the Park 104 Rules of Engagement 130 The Game of Jeopardy158 Silver Screens 190 Line of Fire 210 Heat of Friction 240 Faces in the Dark 278 Truth or Consequences 308 Acknowledgments 339
SynopsisAvalanche expert Fredston stalks these so-called freaks of nature, forecasting where and when an avalanche will strike, deliberately triggering them with explosives, teaching potential victims how to stay alive, and leading rescue efforts when tragedy strikes., Every year around the globe, people cross paths with avalanches-some massive, some no deeper than a pizza box-often with deadly results. Avalanche expert Jill Fredston stalks these so-called freaks of nature, forecasting where and when they will strike, deliberately triggering them with explosives, teaching potential victims how to stay alive, and leading rescue efforts when tragedy strikes. Having spent decades trying to keep avalanches and people apart, Fredston brings them together unforgettably in Snowstruck. From a rare store of personal experience, she conveys a panorama of perspectives: a skier making what may prove his final decision, a victim buried so tightly that he can't move a finger, rescuers racing both time and weather, forecasters treading the line between reasonable risk and danger. Seamlessly interweaving these accounts, Fredston brings to life the awesome forces of nature that can turn the mountains deadly-and the equally inexorable forces of human nature that lure us time and again into treacherous terrain.
LC Classification NumberQC929.A8.F74 2005
