A Wall of White: The True Story of Heroism and Survival in the Face of a Deadly Avalanche
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (530 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1416546944 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Page turner Heather Barbieri Ms. Woodlief has done it again with a wall of white! i have a new baby and i'm short on sleep, but i stayed up late at night reading this compelling page turner! i had to give up using capital letters because i only have 1 hand to type, with the baby in the ot. I Liked "A Wall of White" Kay M. Dacy Having never been a skier, I learned a lot from this book about skiing, snow covered mountains and the people who work in this beautiful and sometimes very dangerous setting. The author did a good job of investigating people and facts involved in the massive a. Fabulous! EXCEPT FOR two appalling lines djf This was a fantastic read: gripping, very moving, beautifully told. But how on Earth did the editors allow the following lines to make their way into the final version of this book: "Several other men responded to the call for help as well, including a black m
Jennifer Woodlief is a former reporter for Sports Illustrated. Her first book Ski to Die: The Bill Johnson Story (2005) was optioned by Warner Brothers with Matthew McConaughey to play Bill. A graduate of Stanford University and UCLA School of Law, her past jobs included prosecuting first-degree murder cases as a district attorney and working as a case officer with top secret clearance for the CIA.
A Wall of White is the quintessential American story—a testament to the unwavering dedication of a band of rebel rescuers, driven only by a commitment to saving lives, battling not just extreme conditions but seemingly impossible odds.. The 1982 avalanche at Alpine Meadows ski resort near Lake Tahoe, California was a once-in-a-lifetime catastrophe—an unforeseeable confluence of natural events that created the conditions for an unimaginable disaster—and, in one woman’s case, an astonishing ordeal of survival. At the center of this wrenc
On the other hand, the story of Larry Heywood and his ski patrol team, risking their lives to save a buried woman, is a story of life, death, and heroism, told in a close-up, personal style that puts us right there beside the rescuers. . The book is a triumph of storytelling, of capturing a small human drama in the midst of a massive natural disaster. From Booklist *Starred Review* In 1982, an avalanche at a ski resort near Lake Tahoe took the lives of seven people. Her description of the avalanche itself is vivid and visually compelling, as though she were describing scenes from a big-screen disaster movie. The author tells two stories here—one in broad strokes, the other in precise detail. Books of this nature are automatically compared to the works of Sebastian Junger and Jon Krakauer, but in this case the comparison is apt: Woodlief tells a true story that is compelling, dramatic, and haunting. In the m