"Accidents are never one event. They're usually a combination of things that happened beforehand." - From Critical Hours: Search and Rescue in the Whit"Accidents are never one event. They're usually a combination of things that happened beforehand." - From Critical Hours: Search and Rescue in the White Mountains, Chapter 10: When the Angles and the Odds Rise by Sandy Scott
Critical Hours tells the story of SAR in the White Mountains region of New Hampshire, addressing everything from the history of SAR to how current operations run to the lives of those who volunteer their time search for and (hopefully) rescue others. It's a lot to deal with, and unfortunately the book bounces around a lot in the process of touching on the disparate topics. I wouldn't have minded it so much if each chapter had been pretty self contained in the history, function, importance, experience, or something else for a particular topic around the axis of White Mountains SAR IF those chapters didn't have so many digressions that would have been more appropriate and timely if they had simply been included in their relevant chapters. There's a lot of good information in this book; unfortunately the manner in which the author relates that information is more than a little haphazard. Critical Hours wasn't a bad book by any means, but it could have done with a better editor.
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"Accidents are never one event. They're usually a combination of things that happened beforehand." - From Critical Hours: Search and Rescue in the White Mountains, Chapter 10: When the Angles and the Odds Rise by Sandy Scott
Critical Hours tells the story of SAR in the White Mountains region of New Hampshire, addressing everything from the history of SAR to how current operations run to the lives of those who volunteer their time search for and (hopefully) rescue others. It's a lot to deal with, and unfortunately the book bounces around a lot in the process of touching on the disparate topics. I wouldn't have minded it so much if each chapter had been pretty self contained in the history, function, importance, experience, or something else for a particular topic around the axis of White Mountains SAR IF those chapters didn't have so many digressions that would have been more appropriate and timely if they had simply been included in their relevant chapters. There's a lot of good information in this book; unfortunately the manner in which the author relates that information is more than a little haphazard. Critical Hours wasn't a bad book by any means, but it could have done with a better editor....more
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