Dare To Survive or The New Glucose Revolution Low GI Guide to Losing Weight

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

Author: Rick Rinehart

Flash floods, plane crashes, animal attacks, avalanches, landslidesthese devastating phenomena all too often claim the lives of men, women, and children in the American West. But some beat the odds, living to tell about their terrifying ordeals. There are inspirational stories of extreme survival and tremendous bravery. Of the hiker who-though armed with only a knife-survived a 30-minute nightmare with a cougar...of the backcountry snowboarder buried alive by an avalanche, saved with only minutes to spare...of the outdoorsman pinned by an 800-pound boulder, who freed himself by amputating his own arm. And there are the unexplainable, senseless tragedies-the little girl whose mysterious disappearance at a national park was never solved...the inexperienced charter pilot who crashed trying to beat curfew in a snowstorm...and the veteran backwoods camper who, despite every precaution, fell victim to a fatal bear attack.

What does it take to endure the impossible? Dare to Survive tackles that question as it vividly reminds us that when danger strikes, survival becomes the ultimate human challenge.

Table of Contents:

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

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The New Glucose Revolution Low GI Guide to Losing Weight: The Only Authoritative Guide to Weight Loss Using the Glycemic Index

Author: Dr Jennie Brand Miller

When it comes to losing weight, not all foods are created equal. The glycemic index—an easy-to-understand ranking of foods, most notably carbohydrates, based on the rate at which the body metabolizes them—can help people choose the right foods to eat in their quest to lose weight and keep it off. Written by the world's leading authorities on the glycemic index, The New Glucose Revolution Low GI Guide to Losing Weight answers the questions most frequently asked by dieters about low-GI foods, recounts success stories about people who have lost weight by making the switch to a low-GI diet, includes a week's worth of low-GI meal plans, and much more.