Glacier Travel & Crevasse Rescue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Glacier Travel & Crevasse Rescue write by Andy Selters. This book was released on 1999-11-30. Glacier Travel & Crevasse Rescue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. * Technical advice for traveling safely on glaciers and how to perform a rescue should the worst happen * Sidebars provide extra lessons on techniques presented * Large format with photographs showing the techniques discussed Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue is a comprehensive course in understanding glaciers, crossing them, avoiding crevasses, and rescuing crevasse victims. Topics covered include: how glaciers form and how crevasses develop; basic principles of glacier travel; route finding; knots and harnesses; holding a fall; rescue techniques, including self-belay and what a victim should do; and glacier skiing and sled hauling. Sidebars feature descriptions of accidents and near-accidents to emphasize the importance of the techniques presented.
CREVASSE ROULETTE
CREVASSE ROULETTE - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook CREVASSE ROULETTE write by JON. STEPHENSON. This book was released on 2016. CREVASSE ROULETTE available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Crevasse Roulette
Crevasse Roulette - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crevasse Roulette write by Jon Stephenson. This book was released on 2012-10. Crevasse Roulette available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The British Commonwealth - sponsored Trans - Antarctic Expedition (TAE) of 1957 - 58, under the leadership of Dr Vivian Fuchs, completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole. A pioneering and hazardous journey, and not without controversial elements, it also included scientists participating in International Geophysical Year research. Jon Stephenson was a geologist on that expedition. As well as giving his account of the Expedition, its planning and its aftermath, Stephenson supplies a history of Antarctic exploration since James Cook's voyage of 1775, an account of other Antarctic exploration and scientific study contemporaneous with TAE, and an overview of subsequent expeditions.
Shackleton's Dream
Shackleton's Dream - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shackleton's Dream write by Stephen Haddelsey. This book was released on 2011-11-30. Shackleton's Dream available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton watched horrified as the grinding ice floes of the Weddell Sea squeezed the life from his ship, Endurance . Caught in the chaos of splintered wood, buckled metalwork and tangled rigging lay Shackleton's dream of being the first man to complete the crossing of Antarctica. Shackleton would not live to make a second attempt – but his dream endured. Shackleton's Dream tells for the first time the story of the British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary. Forty years after the loss of Endurance, they set out to succeed where Shackleton had so heroically failed. Using tracked vehicles and converted farm tractors in place of Shackleton's man-hauled sledges, they faced a colossal challenge: a perilous 2,000-mile journey across the most demanding landscape on the planet. This epic adventure saw two giants of twentieth-century exploration pitted not only against Nature at her most hostile, but also against each other. Planned as a historic (and scientific) continental crossing, the expedition would eventually develop into a dramatic 'Race to the South Pole' – a contest as controversial as that of Scott and Amundsen more than four decades earlier.
The Crossing
The Crossing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crossing write by John Knight. This book was released on 2018-11-15. The Crossing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The definitive account of Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary's Trans-Antarctic Expedition, completed 60 years ago this year.
