Hanging by a Thread - My toughest missions as a helicopter rescue doctor

Zusatztext A unique testimony to the world of mountain rescue. Informationen zum Autor Emmanuel Cauchy is one of the world's top mountain-rescue doctors. He worked as medical advisor on such films as Himalaya and Tomorrow Never Dies . His principal work is in the French Alps, where, for the last 20 years, he has served with the PGHM, the helicopter mountain rescue covering the Chamonix and Mont Blanc region. He also coordinates the Institute for Training and Research in Mountain Medicine, of which he is a founder member. Klappentext Amazing death-defying and life-saving tales from an extreme doctor. Extreme medicine - my toughest missions as a mountain rescue doctor. Zusammenfassung Extreme medicine - my toughest missions as a mountain rescue doctor.

Product details

• Authors: Emmanuel Cauchy, Cauchy Emmanuel
• Assisted by: Josephine Cleere (Translation)
• Publisher: Constable
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.03.2009
• EAN: 9781845298920
• ISBN: 978-1-84529-892-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 201 mm x 134 mm x 20 mm
• Series: William Lorimer
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Medicine: general issues, MEDICAL / General, Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs