Big walls, swift waters : epic stories from Yosemite Search and Rescue / by Charles R. "Butch" Farabee.

[San Francisco, Calif.] : Yosemite Conservancy, [2017]

³2017

222 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 25 cm

"The men and women of Yosemite Search and Rescue work around the clock, ready to respond at any hour in any weather. It's not all helicopter heroics and plucking unlucky rock jocks off The Nose of El Capitan. It also means helping the teen with the busted ankle on the Mist Trail, finding the missing child in Tuolumne Meadows, and rescuing the newlywed clinging to a slick rock after her raft implodes. Most of Yosemite's nearly 4 million annual visitors leave the park without a scratch. For a few, however, a vacation in this world-famous land of cliffs and waterfalls takes a turn for the terrifying. That's where the YOSAR team comes in. Author and legendary YOSAR team member Butch Farabee relates epic tales of endurance and survival, misadventure and fatal consequences."--Amazon.com.

English

January 06, 2021

Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-213) and index.