Mountain Rescue - Chamonix Mont Blanc

A Season with the World's Busiest Mountain Rescue Service

* Paperback

First English mountain rescue guide to Chamonix, Mont Blanc for mountain book and general readers. The rescues come in all types - mountain walkers with twisted ankles, penniless Eastern Europeans, lost schoolchildren, heart attack victims. Often a recipe for disaster resulting in the full range of high accidents, tragedies, and high mountain ailments (snow blindness, altitude sickness). Anne Sauvy always tries to accentuate the positive taking pleasure from ônear miraclesö where the rescuersÆ swift and skilful actions save stricken victims from almost certain death. SauvyÆs findings are thus exciting, moving, inspiring and thought-provoking.

ISBN: 1898573522