Mountain rescue doctor : wilderness medicine in the extremes of nature /
Van Tilburg, Christopher,author.
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.
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.
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.
Van Tilburg, Christopher.
Van Tilburg, Christopher.
Mountaineering injuries
Mountaineering accidents
Rescue work
Emergency physicians
Emergency physicians.
Mountaineering accidents.
Mountaineering injuries.
Rescue work.