Mountain Disaster

The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. A "unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots" -- firefighters trained specifically to battle...

Twelve-year-old Carly has recently recovered from an illness and to celebrate, Carly, her older brother, Ajay, and her dad go on a climbing trip in the Rocky Mountains. Even though Carly tries to convince her family she is a hundred-percent better, her troubling bouts of tiredness give her away. When an unexpected injury forces Carly and Ajay back down the mountain, Carly’s health is put to the ultimate test.

The Lady and the Mountain Man (Book 1) Leah Townsend, a recently orphaned heiress, flees Richmond after discovering her fiancé’s plot to kill her after their wedding. Desperate for a safe place to hide, she accepts a newspaper proposal for a mail-order bride from a God-fearing young rancher...

A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the Top At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan...

When an EMP strike cripples America, a diver trapped offshore, a retired sheriff, and two stranded teens must fight to survive. Power is gone, chaos spreads, and every second counts in this pulse-pounding survival thriller.

Survival on Shell Mountain A Shell Mountain Apocalypse Novel — Book One How do you hold on to faith when the world starts to fall apart? When whispers of economic collapse begin to echo across the nation, the Miller family doesn’t wait for permission—they pack up their lives and head for the hills. Trading modern comforts for a cabin in the Smoky Mountains, they commit to living off-grid, off the radar, and on their own terms. But life on Shell Mountain isn’t easy. The land is unforgiving, neighbors are suspicious, and the tension in town is rising fast. While Erin clings to faith ...

In 2006 freelance photojournalist and amateur climber Nick van der Leek wrote a five page analysis of the 1996 Everest disaster titled MOUNTAIN MADNESS, and published in HEARTLAND magazine. His distillation was described at the time by THE CLIMB co-author, Weston DeWalt, as ‘the clearest exposition of the 1996 disaster I have ever seen’. Now, nine years later, having honed his penmanship within the rigors and deceits of the True Crime genre, Nick van der Leek is taking on the Everest narrative once more but with a fresh approach. Compared to his 2006 article, NEVEREST is a much larger ...

On the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded by the district's Bureau of Land Management office as taking place in South Canyon, thereby mislabeling forever one of the greatest tragedies in the annals of firefighting. That...

Fourteen billion gallons of water stand behind a failing structure. Zero time remains to run. After six days of relentless mountain rain, Crown Peak is tearing itself apart from the inside out. Twelve miles downstream, the resort town of Silverpine is packed with thirty thousand festivalgoers trapped in total gridlock. They are completely unaware of the catastrophe about to erase their location from the map. When the massive concrete wall shatters, veteran river guide Briar Holt and safety engineer Hollis Keene must fight against impossible odds. They are forced to lead a group of strangers...

The unsolved mysteries of George Mallory, Sandy Irvine, and their legendary 1924 Everest expedition. This program includes an audio-exclusive bonus conversation between the authors. There is no mystery more compelling in the history of mountaineering than the disappearance of George Mallory and...

The economic collapse started in China. But the world's economies were interconnected and interdependent. Within hours, the collapse had spread around the world. Eldon Waters was a prepper, and had been ever since he married Felicia Gomez. He heard news of the economic collapse as he was getting ready to start a new work week. He knew immediately that chaos and violence would quickly erupt. His first priority was defending his family. He took his marriage vows seriously. He was prepared to lay down his life to keep his wife and children safe. That meant that they would need to escape the ...

After a plane is forced to make an emergency landing in a remote area, the surviving crew and passengers must wait until a rescue team arrives. But they soon discover they are not alone in the wilderness, and the rescue team is not showing up anytime soon.

The definitive account of one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history, which killed nineteen elite firefighters of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and also inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. “A tear-jerking classic.”—Outside Named One of the Best Books of the Year by...

THIRTY THOUSAND YEARS EXTINCT. UNTIL TONIGHT. Deep in the isolated Cascade Mountains, a severe superstorm severs the classified Halcyon Wildlife Preserve from the outside world. But torrential rain and washed-out roads are the least of wildlife technician Nolan Price's problems. When a sudden power failure breaches a heavily reinforced enclosure, a genetically resurrected apex predator is unleashed into the dark woods. The Thylacoleo carnifex is massive, silent, and engineered with the most devastating bite force of any mammal in history. Worse, she isn't just hunting for food. She is a ...

In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, were stranded at 20,000 feet on Alaska's Mount McKinley in a vicious Arctic storm. Ten days passed while the storm raged, yet no rescue was mounted. All seven perished in what remains the most tragic expedition in American climbing history.

The ice held a secret for ten thousand years. Now, it’s awake. When a high-altitude corporate retreat at an isolated Rocky Mountain lodge is severed from the outside world by a catastrophic whiteout storm, the survivors think their biggest threat is the plummeting temperature. They are wrong. Deep in the abandoned underground research tunnels beneath the ski station, something ancient and hungry has been thawed from the permafrost. It is not a myth. It is Arctodus simus—the giant short-faced bear, an apex predator standing twelve feet tall and built for relentless slaughter. As the ...

Sandy Stott, the "Accidents" editor at the journal of the Appalachian Mountain Club, delivers both a history and a celebration of the search and rescue workers who save countless lives in the White Mountains - along with a plea for us not to take their steadfastness and bravery for granted. Filled with tales of astonishing courage and sobering tragedy, Critical Hours will appeal to outdoor enthusiasts and armchair adventurers alike. 

A First Daughter Thriller Charlie Harlow came to the mountains to escape. For three days, she and Jordan intended to leave Washington behind. No crisis briefings. No intelligence reports. No international emergencies. Just fresh snow, quiet nights, and the chance to spend time with the woman she loves. Then the mountain comes down. A catastrophic avalanche tears through an exclusive luxury resort buried deep in the Rockies, swallowing buildings, cutting off roads, and trapping hundreds of guests beneath a relentless winter storm. With communications down and rescue teams unable to reach ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home “In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it...

The water is rising. And so are they. When a relentless storm traps Jenna and her teenage daughter at an isolated summer campground, the rising river is the least of their problems. The devastating deluge has cracked open a sealed underground drainage system—releasing an ancient, flesh-eating colony of amphibious predators that have been breeding beneath the earth for decades. Cut off from the outside world and surrounded by dark, churning currents, Jenna and a small group of desperate locals must navigate the submerged ruins of the property to escape. But the water is getting higher, the...