{"product_id":"snowstruck-book-jill-fredston-9780151012497","title":"Snowstruck","description":"Avalanches, as Jill Fredston makes vividly clear in \u003ci\u003eSnowstruck\u003c\/i\u003e, have their own lore, and they can chill even those of us far removed from their deadly trajectories. \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJill 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. \u003cp\u003eGripping . . . 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 \u003cbr\u003e[Fredston] is so adamant and impassioned a seer that we read on, grateful to look through her eyes. \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJIL FREDSTON \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eRowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic s Edge, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSnow Sense: A Guide to Evaluating Snow Avalanche Hazard\u003c\/i\u003e. They live in the mountains above Anchorage. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49580632867089,"sku":"GOR007056526","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50459661074705,"sku":"CIN0151012490VG","price":4.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53342060511505,"sku":"CIN0151012490G","price":4.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0151012490.jpg?v=1751036946","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/snowstruck-book-jill-fredston-9780151012497","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}