Cairngorm John: A life in mountain rescue (Paperback)

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In Scotland’s Cairngorm mountains, climbers and walkers are drawn into a landscape that can turn quickly from welcome to peril. John Allen spent more than thirty years with the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team, going out in all conditions to search for the lost and injured.

Cairngorm John gathers stories from the work itself, close to the lived reality of life and death on the hill, and sets them alongside the practical knowledge that keeps people alive: hypothermia, first aid, new technology, rescue dogs. The mountains are always present, not as backdrop but as the force that shapes each decision, each delay, each return.

This latest edition adds photographs and new chapters on how mountain rescue has developed in the early years of the twenty first century. It also includes maps of the Cairngorm Mountains, Northern Corries and the Cairngorm Plateau, plus a glossary of climbing terms, Gaelic pronunciation and meanings.