Snowstruck by Jill Fredston

Snowstruck by Jill Fredston

Avalanches, as Jill Fredston makes vividly clear in Snowstruck, have their own lore, and they can chill even those of us far removed from their deadly trajectories. The New York Times Book Review
Jill Fredston stalks avalanches. She predicts where and when they will strike, deliberately triggers them with explosives, teaches potential victims how to stay alive, and leads rescue efforts when tragedy strikes. Reaching deep into this trove of personal experience, Fredston captures the overwhelming force of avalanches from a panorama of perspectives: a skier making what may prove his final decision, a victim buried so tightly that he can't move a finger, rescuers racing time and weather, forecasters treading the line between reasonable risk and danger. Sweeping us into these stories, she also captures the mercurial fascination of snow itself, which first drew her to Alaska and then led her to the man who would become her lifelong partner in love and work.

Gripping . . . while her thrilling, sometimes tragic, accounts of victims and rescuers alike keep the pages flying by, it's Fredston's larger preoccupation with humanity's need to flirt with danger that gives the book its overarching grandeur and heft. Elle.com
[Fredston] is so adamant and impassioned a seer that we read on, grateful to look through her eyes. San Francisco Chronicle

JIL FREDSTON is the author of Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic s Edge, which won the 2002 National Outdoor Book Award for Literature. She and her husband, Doug Fesler, codirect the Alaska Mountain Safety Center and cowrote the authoritative Snow Sense: A Guide to Evaluating Snow Avalanche Hazard. They live in the mountains above Anchorage.

Avalanche experts Jill Fredston and her husband, Doug Fesler, are co-directors of the Alaska Mountain Safety Center. They live near Anchorage while they are not rowing.

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ISBN 13	9780151012497
ISBN 10	0151012490
Title	Snowstruck
Author	Jill Fredston
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Year published	2005-11-01
Number of pages	338
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