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Sto caricando le informazioni... The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zonedi Mckay Jenkins
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The White Death is a generic disaster story – we meet some adventurous young men; they undertake a mountaineering challenge; they are found thawing out of an icefield the next spring. In between human interest chapters we get assorted facts about avalanches. I don’t mean to mock a tragedy; it just doesn’t do much for me. I’m interested in what ordinary people do in disasters, with the goals of preventing disasters in the first place and mitigating their effects in the second. Well, ordinary people don’t go mountain-climbing on an avalanche-prone peak in the dead of winter. This is well-written and held my interest as far as it goes but I’m not likely to have to deal with bus passengers trapped in an avalanche while driving up a vertical cliff. ( ) Awesome! In what I expected to be a lenghty description of one arbitrary incident involving avalanches and climbers, I discovered a highly readable history and study - although never too scientific - of avalanches in general and of the more memorable accounts in American history. The core story provides good observation and judgment from the author. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In 1969, five young men from Montana set out to accomplish what no one had before: to scale the sheer north face of Mt. Cleveland, Glacier National Park's tallest mountain, in winter. Two days later tragedy struck: they were buried in an avalanche so deep that their bodies would not be discovered until the following June. The White Death is the riveting account of that fated climb and of the breathtakingly heroic rescue attempt that ensued. In the spirit of Peter Matthiessen and John McPhee, McKay Jenkins interweaves a harrowing narrative with an astonishing expanse of relevant knowledge ranging from the history of mountain climbing to the science of snow. Evocative and moving, this fascinating book is a humbling account of man at his most intrepid and nature at its most indomitable. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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