Snowstruck In The Grip Of Avalanches

Every single yr around the world, men and women cross paths with avalanches—some massive, some no deeper than a pizza box—with lethal benefits. Avalanche expert Jill Fredston stalks these so-known as freaks of naturel, forecasting exactly where and when they will strike, intentionally triggering them with explosives, instructing possible victims how to keep alive, and primary rescue attempts when tragedy strikes. 

 

In Snowstruck, Fredston draws on many years of personal encounter to just take “avalanches out of the statistical realm and into the individual one” (Skiing Magazine): a skier making what may show his ultimate determination, a sufferer buried so tightly that he can not transfer a finger, rescuers racing both time and weather conditions, forecasters treading the line among realistic risk and threat. Fredston delivers to existence the wonderful forces of naturel that can change the mountains deadly—and the similarly inexo­rable forces of individual naturel that lure us time and once more into treacherous terrain.