Playing for Real: Stories from Rocky Mountain Rescue

Playing for Real: Stories from Rocky Mountain Rescue
ISBN-10
0976052563
ISBN-13
9780976052562
Series
Playing for Real
Category
Sports & Recreation
Pages
158
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
The Mountaineers Books
Author
Mark Scott-Nash

Description

Playing for Real describes what goes through a rescuer'shead, from the excitement of the initial ring of thepager to searching for and finding victims. The rescuerwill share with you the challenges of stabilizing andpreparing a critically injured victim for evacuation-moving the victim to emergency vehicles (sometimes downhundreds of ......

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