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    Cairngorm John: A Life in Mountain Rescue

    By John Allen

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    For over thirty years John Allen was an active member of the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team and for most of them acted as Team Leader. In 'Cairngorm John' (his call sign when in contact with search and rescue helicopters) he recalls the challenges of mountain rescue and the many changes he has both witnessed and been a party to. His book is filled with exciting accounts of real-life rescues, discussions of mountain rescue topi such as hypothermia, first aid, and the use of helicopters and search and rescue dogs. Peopled with interesting characters his accounts are at all times humane and the book is laced with humour.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSandstone Press
    Release dateDec 12, 2012
    ISBN9781908737489
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    Cairngorm John: A Life in Mountain Rescue
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    John Allen

    John Allen is a South African journalist who served as director of communications for that country's groundbreaking Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and for Trinity Church, Wall Street, in New York. He is a former president of the South African Society of Journalists and has received awards in South Africa for defense of press freedom and in the United States for excellence in religious journalism. He helps manage Africa’s biggest news website, allAfrica.com.

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      this is a great insight into the life of a team leader in one of the toughest mountain rescue teams in Scotlan. John Allen describes in details the rescues, successful and unsuccessful that he's been involved in over the past 30+ years. An interesting and entertaining book and well worth a read!