Crisis on Mount Hood: Stories from a Hundred Years of Mountain Rescue - Paperback

by Christopher Van Tilburg (Author)

Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist in Adventure, Sports, and Recreation
In Crisis on Mount Hood, author and emergency room doctor Christopher Van Tilburg looks at the history of America's oldest all-volunteer mountain rescue team, the Hood River Crag Rats, and his own three-decade commitment to search and rescue. Centered on Oregon's iconic 11,249-foot-high Mount Hood, considered by many to be the world's most-climbed glaciated peak, this dramatic narrative leads readers through a century of life-and-death challenges.