num_pages: 207
description: Fourteener mania the phenomena characterized by a seemingly obsessive drive to summit The List of all fifty-four of Colorado's 14000-foot peaks is an older tradition than many may realize. Along with intensely positive experiences in climbing is the possibility of the opposite extremeto 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.
language: English
title: Colorado 14er Disasters: Victims of the Game
publisher: Johnson Books