Colorado 14er Disasters:: Victims of the Game
by Mark Scott-Nash
List Price:
Our Price: $11.00
You Save: $5.95 (35%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Mark Scott-NashBrand: Big Earth Publishing
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-15
ISBN: 1555664318
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Johnson Books
Product features:
- See Description
Book Reviews of Colorado 14er Disasters:: Victims of the Game
Book Review: gripping and cautionary
Summary: 5 Stars
I pretty much concur with the other reviewers: Scott-Nash writes well, although most of these true stories of tragedy mostly tell themselves. For anyone who has hiked and climbed in the mountains, especially in Colorado, these are grim cautionary tales. If we cannot save these victims, at least maybe we can avoid becoming one of them.
Many times while hiking with my companions, we have had discussions about how to avoid making bad decisions, and what we would do if such a disaster befell us (it's easy to think we'd all be calm and heroic, but panic and pain can bring the strongest man to a bad conclusion). We have often said, "You know, just one careless slip on this cliff or trail, and this outing would change from carefree to nightmare!" We try to always carry emergency and survival gear, because nobody goes out planning to get lost or injured, do they?
But when climbing 14ers, it often goes beyond being careless. It involves being poorly informed, or poorly prepared, or a poor judge of your own abilities, or worse, a poor judge of your companion's abilities or character (hence the wife who let her husband lead her deeper and deeper into the worst possible route up Holy Cross...).
Even if you have never climbed a 14er, this book will hold your attention.
Summary of Colorado 14er Disasters:: Victims of the Game
Fourteener mania, the phenomena characterized by a seemingly obsessive drive to summit the list of all fifty-four of Colorado s 14,000-foot peaks, is an older tradition than many may realize. Along with intensely positive experiences in climbing is the possibility of the opposite extreme to become stranded, severely injured, or even killed, in disturbingly easy ways. This book explores this dark side of climbing. When an accident happens on a 14er, the victim is far from help and in an environment where rescue is difficult at best. The book is full of hair-raising stories of these disasters and resue attempts and also aids in avoiding such disasters.Mountain Climbing Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Mountain Climbing Books
Matagouri and Other Pricksby Mary Hobbs
Nationwide Books; Published: 2010-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $64.20
The Windhorseby Elaine Brook
W. Clement Stone; Published: 1987-02; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.98
Price in other shops:
Touch the Top of the Worldby Erik Weihenmayer
Plume; Published: 2002; Paperback; Book
Climber's Guide to Devil's Lakeby Sven Olof Swartling, Pete Mayer
U Of Wisconsin Press; University of Wisconsin Press; Published: 2008-09-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $13.49
Price in other shops:
Nanda Devi: A Journey to the Last Sanctuaryby Hugh Thomson
Orion Publishing; Published: 2004-04-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $17.50
Price in other shops:
The Adventurer's Handbook: From Surviving an Anaconda Attack to Finding Your Way Out of a Desertby Mick Conefrey
Palgrave Macmillan; Published: 2010-10-12; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.99
Price in other shops:
Against the Wallby Simon Yates
Jonathan Cape; Published: 1997; Hardcover; Book
Solo: Nanga Parbatby Reinhold Messner
Oxford Univ Pr (T); Published: 1981-01; Hardcover; Book
Price in other shops:
Boldest Dream: Story of Twelve Who Climbed Mount Everestby Rick Ridgeway
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P; Published: 1979-10-04; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $127.72
Speak to the Hills: An Anthology of Twentieth Century British and Irish Mountain PoetryAberdeen Univ Pr; Published: 1985-03; Hardcover; Book
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
100 Classic Hikes Coloradoby Scott S. Warren
Warren, 2nd Edition; Mountaineers Books; Published: 2008-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.15
Price in other shops:
Accidents in North American Mountaineering 2010by Jed Williamson
Mountaineers Books; Amer Alpine Club; Published: 2010-08-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.95
Price in other shops:
Colorado Fourteeners 2012 Deluxe Wall Calendarby Todd Caudle & others
Skyline Press; Published: 2011-06-01; Calendar; Book
Best price: $11.95
Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills: 50th Anniversaryby Ronald C. Eng
Mountaineers; Mountaineers Books; Published: 2010-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $19.43
Price in other shops:
Dawson's Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners, Volume 2, the Southern Peaksby II Dawson Louis W.
Alpen; Blue Clover Press; Published: 1995-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $22.95
Dawson's Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners, Vol. 1: The Northern Peaksby Louis W., II Dawson
Alpen; Blue Clover Press; Published: 1994-05-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $19.98
Price in other shops:
Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain Highby Mark Obmascik
Free Press; Published: 2010-05-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.01
Price in other shops:
Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain Highby Mark Obmascik
Free Press; Published: 2009-05-12; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $2.64
Price in other shops:
Best Summit Hikes in Colorado: An Opinionated Guide to 50+ Ascents of Classic and Little-Known Peaks from 8,144 to 14,433 feetby James Dziezynski
Wilderness Press; Published: 2007-08-07; Paperback; Book
Best price: $11.11
Price in other shops:
Colorado's Fourteeners, 3rd Ed.: From Hikes to Climbsby Gerry Roach
Book:; Fulcrum Publishing; Published: 2011-01-25; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.31
Price in other shops: