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The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone
de Jenkins, McKay
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- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 037550303X
- ISBN 13
- 9780375503030
- Librería
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Random House (NY), 2000. First edition. Hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author. Inscribed "Feb 00 For Leeke, With friendship and admiration McKay". A colorful history of humankind's relationship with a natural disaster explores Hannibal's loss of eighteen thousand men to an avalanche, Austria's use of avalanches as a weapon during World War I, and a recent tragedy that buried five young climbers in Glacier National Park.
Sinopsis
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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- SKU2010022629
- Título
- The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone
- Autor
- Jenkins, McKay
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hard cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 037550303X
- ISBN 13
- 9780375503030
- Editorial
- Random House (NY)
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2000
- Palabras clave
- avalances, snow, skiing
- X weight
- 20 oz
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