The mammoth book of mountain disasters
Subtitle: true accounts of rescue from the brink of death
By: edited by Hamish MacInnes.
Contributors: MacInnes, Hamish.
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
Subjects: Mountaineering -- Search and rescue operations; Mountaineering accidents
Other titles: Mountain disasters
Table of contents: title: Rescue on the Droites -- Blaise Agresti and Jamie Andrew; title: The venomous one -- Hamish MacInnes, Reup Brooks, Noel Williams, Steve Hayward; title: We recover the bodies of our comrades -- Ludwig Gramminger; title: The Eigerwand, 1957-62 -- Hamish MacInnes and Brian Nully; title: Two on the Dru -- Hamish MacInnes; title: Shibboleth -- Andrew Fraser; title: Sixty years on Beinn Achaladair -- Hamish MacInnes; title: The Matterhorn and the Bergschrund -- Ludwig Gramminger; title: Plucked from the pillar -- Emmanuel Schmutz; title: An airborne avalanche: detective work on the Tatras Milo V︣rba --; title: A cauldron of wind -- Markus Burkard; title: Avalanche on Beinn a'Bhuird -- Hamish MacInnes; title: The Wellington and the storm -- Hamish MacInnes, Dick Brown, Stan Stewart; title: Death in the Giant Mountains -- Milo V︣rba; title: Duel with An Teallach -- Hamish MacInnes and Iain Ogilvie; title: Not a place for people -- Pete Sinclair and Al Read; title: Long haul on La Perouse -- Norman Hardie; title: A long way to Kinabalu -- Dan Carroll; title: Accident-Empress Hut -- Hamish MacInnes; title: Buried on Mount Cook -- Karen Gazly; title: Storm on Peak Lenin -- Paul Nunn; title: Death in the Everest Icefall -- Hamish MacInnes; title: The three-hundred-metre fall -- Marek Brniak; title: Self-help on the Ogre -- Doug Scott; title: The rock wizards of Oz -- Alan Sheehan; title: Lucky Joe -- Hamish MacInnes, Joe Simpson, Simon Yates; title: The bogus commander and the Y-fronts resuce -- Hamish MacInnes; title: Windy mountain epic -- Alison Osius; title: Snow on the equator -- Oswald Oelz, Robert Chambers, Raimund Margreiter; title: High winds on the Andes -- Hamish MacInnes; title: Middle Peak Hotel -- Bob Munro; title: Rescues in the Grand Canyon -- Hamish MacInnes, Tammie Keller, Tom Clausing; title: Winter rescue on Mount Ararat -- Tun F̧indik; title: Peak of the White stone -- Huch Morris, Richard Wigzel, Dafydd Morris, Gareth Roberts, Duncan Tripp, Steve Hayward, and Bill Amos.