Snowstruck-- In The Grip Of AvalanchesFredston
342pp/photos ISBN 0156032546
Stock No. NNU220Jill Fredston, author of Snow Sense (MTU032) and Rowing to Latitude (CNU024) stalks avalanches for a living. She predicts where and when they will strike, deliberately triggers them with explosives, teaches potential victims how to stay alive, and leads rescue efforts when tragedy strikes. Reaching deep into this trove of personal experience, Fredston captures the overwhelming force of avalanches from 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 time and weather; forecasters treading the line between reasonable risk and danger. Sweeping us into these stories, she also captures the mercurial fascination of snow itself. Having spent decades trying to keeping avalanches and people apart, Fredston has brought them together hauntingly in Snowstruck
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