Dare To Survive: Death, Heartbreak and Triumph in the Wild Book

Foreword     ix
Acknowledgments     xiii
Introduction     1
Theirs Is the Kingdom: Animal Attacks     7
Cute, Endearing, and Occasionally Deadly: The Black Bear     12
The American King of Beasts: The Grizzly Bear     17
Rampant Lion: The Cougar     25
Canidae     33
Antlers, Hooves, and Bad Tempers     43
Missing     51
Laura     55
The Iceman     60
Missing: Deliberately     65
Snowbound     79
A Yellowstone Avalanche     86
Killed in Their Sleep     89
A Warm-Weather Avalanche     91
A Close Call     94
An "Urban" Avalanche and Its Wild Victims     95
Buried Alive     96
Snowdog     105
Lost Horizon: Air Accidents     107
Fallen Angel: The Last Flight of Jessica Dubroff     112
The Bermuda Triangle of the Rockies?     118
Firefall: Heroes in the Sky     127
Troubled Waters     137
Clear, Still-but Still Dangerous: Open Water (Freshwater) Accidents     141
Whitewater Wildernesses: Paddling Accidents     148
TheWeather Underground     156
In Hot Water     159
Biblical Rains     165
Gone in a Flash     168
Flash Floods in the Lone Star State     174
Stuck Behind the Wheel-Tragically     186
And Yet They Rebuild...     189
Earth Movers     193
The Sky Above, the Earth Below: More Severe Weather, Changing Climate, and the Future of Western Wildlands     199
Serious Heat     205
Fire in the Sky     213
Mighty Winds     218
Winds of Change?     226
Wild Still: Two Weeks in September     235
Sources     243