Mountain Survival

#9 - THE HUNTED - ANOTHER EXCITING MOUNTAIN MAN STORY ABOUT CODY DAKOTA BY D. M. HAGGARD.Reunited in their quest to hunt giant elk in the wilds of Arizona, Cody and his oldest friend, Jeremiah "Liver Eatin'" Johnson, embark on a long trek to California. Each man has his own reasons for going. Jeremiah to seek a daughter he never knew. Cody to visit the winery he co-founded almost ten years ago with his lost love, Jamie Sutter, and to find out what's happened to the fortunes he left in a bank there. As always in the wilderness, dangers abound. Along with freezing mountain rains and killing ...

BUTCHER MOUNTAIN IS THE SIXTH BOOK IN THE WILDER HAWK MOUNTAIN MAN ADVENTURE SERIES FROM D. M. HAGGARDStill mourning the loss of his woman, Wilder leaves his tribal homeland bound for the northern Rockies he explored and came to love on his first mountain man journey. A chance encounter on the trail, rescuing a young cowboy from attempted robbery, entangles Wilder with the Triple Bar Ranch. The cowboy is the only son of the ranch’s hard-headed owner, Edmund Butcher, who’s currently contending with the Mormon settlers wanting his range land for farming and local Indian tribes who are ...

#3 - COLORADO ROCKIES THE THIRD BOOK IN THE CODY DAKOTA MOUNTAIN MAN SERIES BY D. M. HAGGARD!After completing his dangerous expedition guiding famed explorer John C. Frémont to California, Cody trekked north to Lake Tahoe and lived with the Washoe people. Soon his wanderer's heart called him home again to his beloved Colorado Rockies. His lengthy roundtrip journey takes him through the majestic redwood forests and rough mining towns, home to animal and human predators alike. After an encounter with two bushwhackers, Cody acquires the deed to a gold claim half-owned by James W. Marshall ...

THE SIXTH BOOK “RAYADO” another TERRIFIC ADVENTURE of the MOUNTAIN MAN SERIES from D. M. HAGGARD, the internationally well-known Western Adventure author. This is the sixth and for now, the last book in the Buck Jackson series. After their sojourn in Texas, Buck Jackson, and his young pardnah, Brent Walker head back to Colorado. The journey has many twists and perils when horse thieves ambush them and Brent is injured by a bandit’s lucky shot. Cody’s past relationship with the Navajo people resurrects his spirit and the people adopt Buck as one of their own. But, there is one ...

#7 - GOING HOME! ANOTHER TERRIFIC CODY DAKOTA MOUNTAIN MAN BOOK BY D. M. HAGGARD! Burdened by the loss of the woman he loved, Cody departs California on a long journey back to Colorado. From the majestic Sierra Nevada Mountains, through the red rock deserts of Nevada and Utah he risks life and limb on this hazardous trip. His trek includes a variety of predator attacks, murderous desert heat, and dicey encounters with Native tribes. He and his livestock are moving targets for many. His eventual arrival at his cabin in the Rockies brings a relief to him as he continues his quest of hunting ...

#10 - PREDATOR AND PREY IS THE TENTH MOUNTAIN MAN STORY OF THE CODY DAKOTA SERIES BY D. M. HAGGARD. MORE TO COME. Cody returns to his new mountain home, a rundown miner's cabin in Grizzly Flats miles from Sacramento. Nested amid the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Grizzly Flats offers wilderness to roam and plenty of game to hunt, plus farms and small towns within a day's ride where Cody can buy or barter for supplies as needed. It's also not far from the J&C Winery run by Cody's partner Joseph Sutter. Joseph has a good head for business, but occasionally problems arise that require Cody's special...

When New York native Samuel Dubois moves to Montana, he learns the hard way that his favorite fantasy novel doesn’t help when he’s lost in the wilderness. Surrounded by animals that scream like creatures from his books, towering, creaky trees, and blood-sucking insects, Samuel spends the worst night of his life perched on top of a rock with only his book and the moon for comfort.

On 13 October 1972, the members of a top Uruguayan rugby team were flying over the Andes to play in Chile. Their plane crashed into a mountain and was stranded 11,000 feet up on an inhospitable glacier. Many died instantly in the crash, including the person sitting next to Nando, but others survived. They had almost no food or suitable equipment to withstand temperatures as low as -35C, and had to eat the bodies of their dead team-mates to survive.

Ben and Helen Harrison set aside their comfortable life in San Francisco and headed to Costa Rica to build a 38-foot sailboat. They had never built a boat before...Then they had to get it down a mountainside to the water, and from there sail to Key West, where they now live. It was a dauntless task and a challenge that put their marriage, their sanity, and their very lives on the line. A real-life adventure that will make you feel like you’ve got a berth on La Dulce Mujer Pintada, the Sweet Painted Lady.

Year after year, climbers return to the world's most difficult mountains. At these places, even the most cautious climber is vulnerable to mistakes, bad weather, and bad luck, which often leads to death. This collection offers harrowing accounts of extreme mountaineering and its potentially fatal consequences.

Of all the games mountaineers play on the world’s high mountains, the hardest - and cruelest - is climbing the 14 peaks over 8,000 meters in the bitter cold of winter. Ferocious winds that can pick you up and throw you down, freezing temperatures that burn your lungs and numb your bones, weeks of psychological torment in dark isolation - these are adventures for those with an iron will and a ruthless determination.

His cheeks are as tender as raw meat on a butcher's block. And those are just the cheeks of his face. As he slumps in the saddle, watching the road disappear into the distance, he aches in parts of his body that he's only just discovering he has. When Mark travels to Ecuador to go hiking and climbing, he discovers a land of dramatic volcanoes rising through the clouds and wide-open horizons rich in history.

Encounters in Avalanche Country tells the story of mountain communities' responses to disaster over a century of social change and rapid industrialization. As mining and railway companies triggered new kinds of disasters, ideas about environmental risk and responsibility were increasingly negotiated by mountain laborers, at the elite levels among corporations, and in socially charged civil suits.

Hastiado de vivir en un apartamento de una ciudad populosa, Sam Gribley se refugia en la soledad de las Montañas Catskill para comenzar una vida nueva. Con la ayuda de un cortaplumas, una pelota de corcho, cuarenta dólares y unas piezas de acero y pedernal, debe confiar para sobrevivir en su propio ingenio y en los recursos que le ofrece la tierra. Solo en la montaña, Sam descubre el valor, el peligro y el verdadero significado de la palabra camaradería.

By the age of seven, Kyle Coon had his second eye removed and became totally blind. Discovering a Life Without Limits is the true story of Kyle going from the darkness of blindness to the world's mountain peaks while navigating everyday life. Through the journey, Kyle learns how to trust a world he cannot see and how to conquer the fear of the unknown, while asking the listener a simple question: Are you ready to live a Life Without Limits?

Working at Camp Eagle Ridge was amazing until my asshole ex showed up. Parker Camp Eagle Ridge is my safe space. It’s where I first came out as gay, where I met my best friend, where I found home when there was no longer a home to return to. But this year, everything has changed. My best friend has a better job offer, the staff is full of people I don’t even recognize. I’m getting too old for summer camp. And the worst part of all? My ex—the closeted athlete who refused to make our relationship official—is in our cabin and won’t explain why. Dare I dream that he’s here to ...

The first book in a brand new Western Series by D. M. Haggard! Rex was forced to leave his family at fifteen after he killed an evil man three years before. He is no stranger to vigilante justice and after finding a new home at the Triple Seven Ranch in northern Montana, the ranch's owner used his fighting and gunslinging skills for special programs. He has been a favorite of the owner and his resided on the ranch for ten years, but on one of his trips to recover stolen cattle he runs into more trouble than he counted on or even knew existed. The Indians call them "skin-walkers" or "shape-...

After a family trip turned disastrous when their truck broke down in the middle of an old logging road in Oregon, Francie is now back in British Columbia. People try to make things as "normal" as possible for her, but they don't understand that trying to be normal in your old life that's exploded is the worst feeling in the world.

Gravity Drive 4 - Gus, is a spin-off novel from the original Gravity Drive series, written to be enjoyed as a stand alone novel for readers of all ages. A baby Burrowing Owl is orphaned from his family during the eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera, and is rescued by a young woman named Pepper. They climb into the Sierra Nevada mountains to escape the devastation being caused by the volcano only to discover that Pepper’s family had to evacuate their home and escape to the safety of an orbiting space station. Pepper is forced to make a series of survival decisions which take the pair ...

1933. When Ellie and her family lose everything, they flee to Echo Mountain to build a new life. Ellie runs wild, exploring the mountain's mysteries. But the one she can't solve is who's leaving the gifts for her: tiny, beautiful wooden carvings of animals and flowers, dotted around the mountain for her to find. Then Ellie's father has a terrible accident. Now he lies in a coma, while Ellie shoulders the blame for what happened. When she sets out to find a cure for him, she discovers Cate, the outcast witch, and Larkin, a wild mountain boy.