Totem Pole (Travel Literature)

Sports & Outdoors

Pritchard, Paul

Biographies

Constable

This dramatic departure from traditional mountain-eering literature offers a slice of life by a British dole-climber.

Deep Play: A Climber's Odyssey from Llanberis to the Big Walls

Mountaineering

MOUNTAINEERS BOOKS+

* Winner of the 1999 Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize * Gripping mountaineering literature and inspirational, true-life drama * Chronicles one athlete's struggle to give up the sport that defined his existence After winning the 1997 Boardman Tasker Award for his first book, Deep Play, climber Paul Pritchard used the prize money to kick off a world climbing tour in Tasmania, on a slender sea stack called the Totem Pole. However, a chance rockfall inflicted such terrible head injuries that Pritchard spent the next year in and out of hospitals, relearning basic thinking processes and muscle movements. This insightful, firsthand chronicle of the accident and its aftermath portrays the physical and emotional ordeal of Pritchard's recovery. He weaves together accounts of earlier climbs, his changed relationships with family and friends and his girlfriend, Celia, and details about the rescue operation itself. And with an unpitying voice, Pritchard describes his return to the accident scene with a film crew to watch some of his friends complete the climb that changed his life.

The Totem Pole: And a Whole New Adventure

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Managing Risk and Environmental Liability (Business and the Environment: Practitioner Series)

Business & Money

Nelson Thornes Ltd

This timely publication considers recent developments in environmental risk management as they relate to commercial organizations, including risk transfer through insurance. It starts by looking at characterization of risks based on the hazard-pathway-receptor principles, emphasizing the importance of site specific factors. Environmental risks are increasingly considered as a part of strategic control assessment. Checklists and case studies are presented to assist in review and assessment of environmental risks. Further guidance is offered for decision making under uncertainty, showing the potential of tools such as Monte Carlo analysis and fuzzy logic, and leading to a review of risk assessment and management frameworks. Environmental Risk Management is an accessible and valuable reference to those from a range of backgrounds - including occupational hygiene, safety, quality personnel and operational managers - who are dealing with environmental issues within their organization.

Environmental Risk Management (Business and the Environment Practitioner Series)

Economics

Routledge

The Longest Climb: A Memoir of Love, Mountaineering, and Healing

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Rocky Mountain Books

The Mountain Path: A climber's journey through life and death

Vertebrate Publishing

The Mountain Path: A Climber's Journey Through Life and Death

Community & Culture

For climber Paul Pritchard the biggest challenge he ever faced wasn't a mountain, but the long climb back to life. Not his former life of the 1990s, when he surfed many of the world's most treacherous rock faces. The boulder that crushed him while he was climbing the Totem Pole in Tasmania put a stop to that. His life now is the result of a six-year struggle with hemiplegia and brain injury, slowly reassembling his world physically, emotionally and mentally. Progress is halting and painful, but also triumphant and often blackly humorous. Along the way he charts the small victories, the false hopes the necessary readjustments, and considers the world's perception of disability as he compares experiences with fellow handicapped climbers such as Jamie Andrew on Kilimanjaro - they are united by positive thinking and a refusal to sink into self-pity.

The Longest Climb

Robinson Publishing

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