TY  - BOOK
AU  - Woodlief,Jennifer
TI  - A wall of white: the true story of heroism and survival in the face of a deadly avalanche 
SN  - 9781416546924
AV  - QC929.A8 W655 2009
U1  - 979.4/38 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Atria Books
KW  - Avalanches
KW  - Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) Region
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Search and rescue operations
KW  - Wilderness survival
N2  - Journalist Jennifer Woodlief's gripping account of the deadliest ski-area avalanche in North American history and the woman who survived in the face of incalculable odds. The unprecedented avalanche of March 31, 1982, at Alpine Meadows ski resort near Lake Tahoe, California, was a once-in-a-lifetime catastrophe. An unforeseeable confluence of natural events created the conditions for an unimaginable disaster--and, in one woman's case, an astonishing ordeal of survival. Woodlief movingly tells the story of the massive slab avalanche that killed seven and left one victim buried alive for five days under the suffocating snow while a ski patrol team and a search-and-rescue dog struggled to save her.--From publisher description
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