Critical Hours : Search and Rescue in the White Mountains / Sandy Stott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stott, Sandy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mountaineering--Search and rescue operations--White Mountains (N.H. and Me.)--History.

Mountaineering.

White Mountains (N.H. and Me.)--History.

White Mountains (N.H. and Me.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, 2018.

Summary:

A perilous history of search and rescue in a changing landscape.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

A Note on Names

Introduction

1 | Where We Come From: Thinly Settled to Thickly Surrounded

2 | Finding Kate: Searchers' Stories

3 | Seven Calls: Help Me Who's Coming What Took You So Long?

4 | In the Beginning

5 | White Fingers Pointing toward the Wind: The Incident That Helped Shape Our Modern Mountains

6 | The Woods Are Whacked, and the Feds Arrive

7 | Getting into Dodge: Incidents from the Joe Dodge Era in the Whites

8 | The Gathering: Steep Enough to Slide, 1954

9 | It's the Law: New Hampshire Fish and Game Assumes the Lead

10 | When the Angles and the Odds Rise: The Need for a Technical Team

11 | Answering the Call: One for Many-Albert Dow

12 | Colorful Chips: White Mountain SAR's Modern Mosaic

13 | Women and Men in SAR

14 | Go-Go or No-Go: Up against Extremes

15 | The Other Side: The Case for Doing Nothing

16 | Command: A Meditation on Being in Charge of Rescue (and of Self)

17 | The Law Goes Up Too

18 | Call in the Suits: The Courtroom in the Hills

19 | Who Pays? (and What That Says)

20 | New Extremes: Superlative Adventure and Search and Rescue

21 | The Exception of Air

22 | Back to the Future?: White Mountain SAR in 2020 and Beyond

23 | Next Gen

24 | What's at Stake: How Search and Rescue Shapes Our Mountains

25 | Why Go?: Saving Others, Saving Yourself

Appendix A | The Hike Safe Program

Appendix B | Pack Like a Rescuer

Sources and Further Reading

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-5126-0176-4

OCLC:

1015275520