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Survivor Stories
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| Author | Title | Location | | Ashcraft, Tami Oldham | Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea | A hurricane kills her fiance, leaving her to navigate the injured boat for 41 days alone | | Boukreev, Anatoli | The climb: tragic ambitions on Everest | Anatoli Boukreev was a guide in the expedition party to Mount Everest that is the subject of Jon Krakauer's book | | Callahan, Steven | Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea | Atlantic Ocean, off the Canary Islands | | Gammelgaard, Lene | Climbing high: a woman's account of surviving the Everest tragedy | Another account of the events on Mount Everest in May 1996 (see Jon Krakauer's book below) | | Krakauer, Jon | Into Thin Air | Mount Everest | | Lewan, Ted | The Last Run: A True Story of Rescue and Redemption on the Alaska Seas | A shipwreck off the coast of Alaska | | Maclean, Norman | Young Men and Fire | Forest fire disaster in 1949 Montana | | Mundle, Rob | Fatal storm: the 54th Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race | Ocean yacht racing in the southern Pacific Ocean | | O'Grady, Scott | Basher Five-Two | shot down over Bosnia | | Read, Piers Paul | Alive! | Andes Mountains | | Roberts, David | Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World | Russian walrus hunters with two days' of supplies survive for six years in the 1740s | | Simpson, Joe | Touching the Void | Two guys climbing a remote Peruvian mountain alone - one breaks his leg on the descent. As Simon lowers Joe down in a blizzard he unknowingly lowers him off the edge of a crevasse. The only thing Simon can do is cut the rope and leave Joe for dead... | | Stanton, Doug | In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of its Survivors | WW II vessel sunk by the Japanese and the political and legal aftermath | | Weathers, Beck | Left for dead: my journey home from Everest | Another of the climbers on Mount Everest in May 1996. Weathers was judged beyond help by other climbers near the top of the mountain and left for dead | | Willis, Clint, ed. | Epic: Stories of Survival From the World's Highest Peaks | Mountain climbing stories from all over the world | | Willis, Clint, ed. | High: Stories of Survival from Eversest and K2 | Mountaineering adventures across the ages and the globe | | Willis, Clint, ed. | Storm: Stories of Survival from Land and Sea | Recountings from survivors of all kinds of storms |
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