Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite: Gripping Accounts of All Known Fatal Mishaps in America's First Protected Land of Scenic Wonders - Hardcover

Ghiglieri, Michael P.; Farabee, Charles R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0970097379 ISBN 13: 9780970097378

Verlag: Puma Pr, 2007

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Authors Michael P. Ghiglieri and Charles R. “Butch” Farabee draw on their extensive experience in professional wilderness guiding (34 years) and in wilderness Search & Rescue in the National Park Service (34 other years), respectively, to research and create detailed and compelling stories for every known fatal mishap in Yosemite’s complicated recreational wonderland. These sagas span the era from Yosemite’s “discovery” in 1849 today when big wall climbing, BASE jumping, and tumbles off Yosemite’s huge waterfalls take such tolls. All 869 mishaps are included; more than 100 are highlighted in dramatic detail and historical context. This book could save your life.

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Yosemite National Park holds a worldwide reputation for being one of the most astoundingly beautiful places on the planet. Its glacier-carved, high Sierra wilderness has defied verbal description just as its polished walls have defied climbers. But along with Yosemite's ethereal beauty have come human errors.Yosemite's death toll leaves Mount Everest's appalling record in the dust. This ambitious, heavily researched, and absolutely gripping book explores every lethal danger in Yosemite and chronicles every fatal error made by those who failed to recognize or respect those perils.These pages recount story after story in which "Man Meets Yosemite" and underestimates it. Indians, Forty-niners, soldiers, casual visitors, concession workers, loggers, builders, National Park Service personnel, big wall climbers, hikers, fishermen, picknickers, and campers have entered the complex environment and topography of Yosemite for their own purposes then failed to understand what they were up against. Their true stories are suspenseful, engaging, and often astonishing. And while many are tragic, the accounts of near misses offer inspiration and even humor. Each story told here--whether of foolish error or selfless heroism--offer a lesson in survival.Authors Ghiglieri and Farabee recount many little-known errors for the first time. They also set the record straight on avery famous and infamous saga of deathin Yosemite from the time of the Mariposa Battalion "War" against the Yosemite Indians to the infamous tope-jumping death of super soloist Dan Osmond.Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite offers the first conpreensive look at how and where things start going wrong. Its lssons comprise a great leap forward in the quest to prevent future fatal episodes.

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• Verlag: Puma Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0970097379
• ISBN 13: 9780970097378
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 608