Hal Clifford
Auteur de The Falling Season: Inside the Life and Death Drama of Aspen's Mountain Rescue Team
A propos de l'auteur
Hal Clifford is the author of The Falling Season: Inside the Life and Death Drama of Aspen's Mountain Rescue Team, winner of the Colorado Council for the Arts Prize for Best Non-Fiction, and Highroad Guide to the Colorado Mountains. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Business afficher plus Week, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, and Orion. A former editor of the Aspen Daily News and SKI Magazine, Clifford currently makes his home in Telluride, Colorado. afficher moins
Œuvres de Hal Clifford
The Falling Season: Inside the Life and Death Drama of Aspen's Mountain Rescue Team (1995) 32 exemplaires
Downhill Slide: Why the Corporate Ski Industry Is Bad for Skiing, Ski Towns, and the Environment (2002) 23 exemplaires
better, by design a review of cradle to cradle 1 exemplaire
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- Sexe
- male
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The Falling Season: Inside the Life and Death Drama… par Hal Clifford
Very interesting book. Good for those who like inside stories of fire departments, rangers, and hiking books.
The Falling Season recounts how politics affected rescues made by Mountain Rescue - Aspen in the 1990s.
It's a fascinating look at the personalities and conflicts involved when the kind of people who will spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours to help people get safely off a mountain encounter the bureaucracy that develops when paid professionals decide that the risk of getting sued is more important than helping people. The way politics can affect rescue operations was scary to read about. My faith in humans was somewhat bolstered by the willingness of the rescuers to put up with a great deal of interference so long as they could still do what they were there to do - help someone.
I found the author's use of the present tense to be annoying, but it wouldn't prevent me from recommending the book to anyone interested in the politics and personalities involved in mountain rescue.… (plus d'informations)
It's a fascinating look at the personalities and conflicts involved when the kind of people who will spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours to help people get safely off a mountain encounter the bureaucracy that develops when paid professionals decide that the risk of getting sued is more important than helping people. The way politics can affect rescue operations was scary to read about. My faith in humans was somewhat bolstered by the willingness of the rescuers to put up with a great deal of interference so long as they could still do what they were there to do - help someone.
I found the author's use of the present tense to be annoying, but it wouldn't prevent me from recommending the book to anyone interested in the politics and personalities involved in mountain rescue.… (plus d'informations)
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 61
- Popularité
- #274,234
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 6