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    Rescues and Tragedies In the San Juan Mountains: True Stories from the Region.

    By Kent Nelson

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    Whether an armchair adventurer or a serious hiker or outdoorsman, the reader will find much to like in newly released Rescues and Tragedies in the San Juan Mountains:True Stories from the Region. Colorado-based, award-winning author Kent Nelson writes with an authentic regional voice and the experience of a survivor. His personal story is included in the collection.

    The 18 stories recount some of the harrowing experiences of the Ouray Mountain Rescue Team and other emergency personnel in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. The stories involve:
    •Stranded climbers
    •Injured hikers
    •Lost hunters
    •Unlucky motorists
    •Victims of off-road vehicle accidents
    •Exhausted trail runners
    •Avalanche survivors
    •People encountering bears.

    More than 50 color photos of the events and the mountain settings illustrate the book, some of which can be seen on the book website http://www.mountainrescuestories.com and in a YouTube video. Also available on the website is a free download of one of the tales: “Ordeal on Mount Sneffels”. The 182-page book is available at the website and in San Juan Mountain area bookstores for $25.

    This is the first non-fiction book for novelist and short story writer Kent Nelson. His work has won the Edward Abbey Prize for Ecofiction, the Colorado Book Award, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. As a bonus, two of Nelson’s previously published short stories set in Ouray are also included in the book.

    Twain Publishers released another book about the region, Mines, Miners and Much More, in 2015. President Paul LeRoux has been an avid hiker in the U.S. and Europe for more than 40 years, and his experiences in the San Juan Mountains inspired both books. He contributed to photo research for the rescue book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKent Nelson
    Release dateNov 1, 2016
    ISBN9780692652671
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    Rescues and Tragedies In the San Juan Mountains: True Stories from the Region.
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    Kent Nelson

    Kent and Dylan Nelson are father and daughter. They both write fiction and have birded together for the past twenty-eight years. Kent's latest novel, Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still, will be published by Viking in 2003. He lives in Salida, Colorado.

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