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Mountain rescue doctor : wilderness medicine in the extremes of nature / Christopher Van Tilburg.
- Title
- Mountain rescue doctor : wilderness medicine in the extremes of nature / Christopher Van Tilburg.
- Author
- Van Tilburg, Christopher.
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | RC88.9.M6 V37 2007 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 293 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- An emergency wilderness physician and member of the Hood River Crag Rats rescue operation presents a series of rescue and recovery stories, offering insight into emergency wilderness medicine and the physical demands placed on its practitioners.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Personal Narrative
- Biographies
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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 Zigzag Glacier -- Midnight at Bennett Pass -- Plane missing, presumed down -- Svitek v. Nidecker and Mount Bachelor -- Anatomy of a search: tragedy on Mount Hood.
- ISBN
- 9780312358877
- 0312358873
- LCCN
- ^^2007028304
- OCLC
- 141386322
- SCSB-10899832
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library