Mountain rescue doctor : wilderness medicine in the extremes of nature

**A memoir from a doctor who rescues hikers, bikers, rafters, and skiers from the wilderness, as part of the Hood River Crag Rats, the oldest mountain rescue team in the country.** Christopher Van Tilburg, MD is an emergency room physician, ski patrol doctor, emergency wilderness physician, and member of the Hood River Crag Rats, the oldest mountain rescue team in the country. When Dr. Van Tilburg's beeper goes off, the call may take him racing up a mountain peak to rescue an injured hiker, into a blizzard to search for missing skiers, or to a mountain airplane crash scene for body recovery. Dr. Van Tilburg's work requires a unique combination of emergency medicine, survival skills, agility, and extreme sports. In __Mountain Rescue Doctor__, Van Tilburg shares personal stories of harrowing and suspenseful rescues and recoveries, including the recent Mount Hood disaster, which claimed the lives of three climbers. __Mountain Rescue Doctor__ is an exhilarating tour through the perils of nature and medicine.

A memoir from a doctor who rescues hikers, bikers, rafters, and skiers from the wilderness, as part of the Hood River Crag Rats, the oldest mountain rescue team in the country.

Christopher Van Tilburg, MD is an emergency room physician, ski patrol doctor, emergency wilderness physician, and member of the Hood River Crag Rats, the oldest mountain rescue team in the country. When Dr. Van Tilburg's beeper goes off, the call may take him racing up a mountain peak to rescue an injured hiker, into a blizzard to search for missing skiers, or to a mountain airplane crash scene for body recovery.

Dr. Van Tilburg's work requires a unique combination of emergency medicine, survival skills, agility, and extreme sports. In Mountain Rescue Doctor, Van Tilburg shares personal stories of harrowing and suspenseful rescues and recoveries, including the recent Mount Hood disaster, which claimed the lives of three climbers. Mountain Rescue Doctor is an exhilarating tour through the perils of nature and medicine.

An Emergency Wilderness Physician And Member Of The Hood River Crag Rats Rescue Operation Presents A Series Of Rescue And Recovery Stories, Offering Insight Into Emergency Wilderness Medicine And The Physical Demands Placed On Its Practitioners. Resuscitation -- Into The Slot -- Crag Rats -- The High Cost Of High-octane Sports -- Flight For Life -- The Moment Of Fear -- Timberline Trail -- Dial 911 For Mountain Rescue -- Cliff Jumpers -- Disappearance In Gifford Pinchot -- Dead Man On Suksdorf Ridge -- Mount Rainier -- Rattlesnake Bite On Dog Mountain -- Storm Warning On Zigzag Glacier -- Midnight At Bennett Pass -- Plane Missing, Presumed Down -- Svitek V. Nidecker And Mount Bachelor -- Anatomy Of A Search: Tragedy On Mount Hood. Christopher Van Tilburg.