The darkest white : a mountain legend and the avalanche that took him /
"From Eric Blehm, the bestselling author of The Last Season and Fearless, comes an extraordinary new book in the vein of Into the Wild, the story of the legendary snowboarder Craig Kelly and his death in the 2003 Durrand Glacier Avalanche-a devastating and controversial tragedy that claimed the...
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2024]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Part I: Competitor. Roots
- This is the year!
- Mount Baker hard core
- Team rider
- World champion
- Changing teams
- The mystery air
- The smooth groove
- Part II: Freerider. Wild snow
- Getting schooled
- Follow your bliss
- The plan
- Breaking down the walls
- Tailgunner
- Checking all the boxes
- A letter from the ACMG
- Layers
- The dragon stirred
- Part III: Avalanche. Welcome to paradise
- Selkirk Mountain experience
- The human factor
- January 20, 2003
- There for the storm
- To ski or not to ski
- La Traviata
- Up
- We'll be fine
- Mute terror
- Thirteen down
- Nobody on standby
- All but the dead
- Fly
- Part IV: Legend. The aftermath and memorial
- Epilogue.