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1) One by one
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English
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Getting snowed in at a rustic mountain chalet in the French Alps doesn't sound like the worst problem in the world. There is a breathtaking vista, a cozy fire, and company to keep you warm. But what happens when that company is eight of your coworkers-- and you can't trust any of them? When an off-site company retreat meant to promote mindfulness and collaboration is stranded by an avalanche, the corporate food chain becomes irrelevant and survival...
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Offers technical skills, practical advice, and common sense approaches to dealing with avalanches. The author provides avalanche knowledge, practice, and the system of techniques, procedures, checklists, and protocols the pros use to keep themselves and others alive in dangerous terrain. With more than 80 photos and 100 illustrations, this guide includes: how to recognize safe terrain vs. dangerous terrain; how to judge snow stability; techniques...
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2005.
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English
Description
An avalanche expert and predictor explores the often deadly nature of avalanches, sharing dramatic rescue and escape stories, including those of a skier who was forced to make a life-and-death decision and the race to save a buried victim.
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Claude and his best friend, Sir Bobblysock, go to the Snowy Mountains where they throw snowballs, learn to ski, and more until Claude's loud voice starts an avalanche, trapping Sir Bobblysock and the only Mountain Rescue person under a huge pile of snow.
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Dog's day volume 2
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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After avalanche rescue dog Ava, a chocolate Labrador retriever, finally gets to help her handler, Nate, with a real rescue, she realizes that her job at the ski resort includes other important tasks, too.
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Publisher
Mountaineers Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"This new guide by renowned avalanche expert Bruce Tremper is simple, accessible, and offers just the basics an Everyman's guide to avalanche safety that won't overtax your average ski bums, but will keep them safe when they re going for 12 consecutive months of powder. Avalanche Essentials is for everyone who wants to learn the fundamentals of avalanche awareness, focusing on systems and checklists, step-by-step procedures, decision-making aids,...
11) Downhill
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives and how they feel about each other.
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Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
Description
Follow along with Piper, a friendly border collie who came to the mountain as a smart but timid shelter dog, terrified by everything, as she confidently heads off to school on a chairlift to meet her canine classmates. Over a season they romp together through the snow, learning and practicing the skills they need to be avalanche rescue dogs and earn their rescue certification. You'll also learn the warning signs and conditions that cause an avalanche,...
14) Avalanche!
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Twelve-year-old twins Ashley and Ryan are tested to the extreme when faced with a powerful avalanche while skiing in Wyoming's Grand Teton mountains. Includes survival tips from the National Avalanche Center and U.S. Forest Service.
15) Whiter than snow
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Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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When a devastating avalanche traps nine children walking home from school in 1920, the disaster has life-changing effects on the people who live in the small Colorado town where it occurs.
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Dino riders volume 3
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English
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Josh, Abi, and Sam are working the annual iguanodon drive when an avalanche traps them with their arch-nemesis, Amos, and the only way out is through the infamous Roaring Jaws Valley.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Mother Nature unleashes spectacular natural phenomena as Jay, Elisha and Tyler witness the inner workings of Niagra Falls, an actual lightning storm, and try to get out of the way of an avalanche.
Ice: PMK chills out when Vanessa shows us how Hollywood creates those magical winter snow scenes for the movies. Elisha gets the rink ready for a big hockey game, and Tyler goes deep inside NASA's ice tunnel to discover how airplanes are made safe for flying.
Water:...
18) Avalanche
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Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"After an avalanche hits, a group of skiers in the Rocky Mountains must survive Mother Nature and a life-threatening injury to one of their members in order to make it out of the mountains and find help"--
Matt was looking for a fun adventure that he'd never forget; back-country skiing in the Rocky Mountains sounds perfect. But after an avalanche hits, leaving one skier dead and another severely injured, the group must find a way to survive Mother...
19) Nói albinói
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Nói drifts throught life on a remote fjord in the north of Ireland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world. The fjord is surrounded by ominous mountains and covered under a shroud of snow. Nói dreams of escaping from his white-walled prison with Iris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. Unfortunately, his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control and end in complete failure. Only a natural disaster...
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