num_pages: 304
description: Christopher Van Tilburg MD is an emergency room physician ski patrol doctor emergency wilderness physician and member of the Hood River Crag Rats the oldest mountain rescue team in the country. When Dr. Van Tilburg's beeper goes off the call may take him racing up a mountain peak to rescue an injured hiker into a blizzard to search for missing skiers or to a mountain airplane crash scene for body recovery. Dr. Van Tilburg's work requires a unique combination of emergency medicine survival skills agility and extreme sports. In Mountain Rescue Doctor Van Tilburg shares personal stories of harrowing and suspenseful rescues and recoveries including the recent Mount Hood disaster which claimed the lives of three climbers. Mountain Rescue Doctor is an exhilarating tour through the perils of nature and medicine.
language: English
title: Mountain Rescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature
publisher: St. Martin's Press