Mountain rescue doctor : wilderness medicine in the extremes of nature

Author

Christopher Van Tilburg

Call Number

• 921 V282 (OSH)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2007.

Physical Description

293 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.

Contents

• Resuscitation
• Into the slot
• Crag rats
• The high cost of high octane sports
• Flight for life
• The moment of fear
• Timberline trail
• Dial 911 for mountain rescue
• Cliff jumpers
• Disappearance in Gifford Pinchot
• Dead man on Suksdorf Ridge
• Mount Rainier
• Rattlesnake bite on Dog Mountain
• Storm warning on Zig Zag Glacier
• Midnight at Bennett Pass
• Plane missing, presumed down
• Svitek v. Nidecker and Mount Bachelor
• Anatomy of a search: tragedy on Mount Hood.