Search and Rescue Alaska - Tracy Salcedo

Search and Rescue Alaska

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
208 Seiten
2020
The Lyons Press (Verlag)
978-1-4930-3728-5 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
In a place as vast and extreme as Alaska, no one takes safety for granted. Whether adventurer or homesteader, tourist or native, people look out for themselves and for each other. But sometimes it just goes bad, and no amount of resourcefulness or resiliency can make it right. That’s when search and rescue teams kick into gear, launching operations by air and by land that have generated amazing tales of heroism, tenacity, and human kindness. Some of those stories have been gathered in Search and Rescue Alaska, including:
•Rescues on Denali, North America’s highest peak, from the mountain’s first search and rescue in 1932 to a rescue in 2017 that highlights the utility of modern equipment and decades of SAR experience
•A World War II search and rescue that ended with a remarkable recovery more than half a century later
•Rescues during the Good Friday quake of 1964
•The rescue of mountaineering students and their instructors in the Chugach Range
•The rescue and recovery of Klondike-bound gold-seekers caught in an avalanche on the infamous Chilkoot Trail
These stories and others in this compilation of essays will kindle a new appreciation for the skilled and selfless pilots, troopers, military personnel, and rangers on call for search and rescue in Alaska.

Tracy Salcedo is the author of Historic Yosemite National Park, Historic Denali National Park and Preserve, and Death in Mount Rainier National Park. She has also written a number of FalconGuides, including Hiking Through History San Francisco, Hiking Lassen Volcanic National Park, Best Hikes Sacramento, Best Hikes Near Reno-Lake Tahoe, and Best Easy Day Hikes guides to the San Francisco Bay Area and Lake Tahoe. She lives and works in California’s Wine Country. You can learn more by visiting her website at www.laughingwaterink.com.

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Zusatzinfo Illustrations; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs
Verlagsort Guilford
Sprache englisch
Maße 151 x 229 mm
Gewicht 318 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Reisen Hotel- / Restaurantführer
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
ISBN-10 1-4930-3728-5 / 1493037285
ISBN-13 978-1-4930-3728-5 / 9781493037285
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