Mountain Survival

In August 2017, 32-year-old Jeremy Evans endured multiple ferocious attacks by a protective female grizzly bear while hunting in the Alberta wilderness. Jeremy’s injuries were massive, his scalp and face destroyed, an eye and his jaw dangling down. The tendons on one leg had been fully severed during the mauling. His hands were damaged where he had physically fought the bear. It was more than a dozen kilometres to where he had parked his truck in darkness early that morning and absolutely no one was near.

Cynthia feels the pressure, as every day reduces the time available to save a small sample of humanity. This time, Nibru will bring an Extinction Event, in less than five years. A breakthrough physics discovery offers a glimpse of an unknown world beyond a portal. She is directing a project that dwarfs the Manhattan Project, in scope and secrecy. The United States will attempt to launch, through an expanded portal, a group of its best and brightest young people into the unknown world. Will the clock reach midnight before Project Bolthole can be completed?

Mountain Survival: When search-and-rescue park ranger Autumn Mercer and her K-9 partner, Sherlock, meet a stranger in the mountains whose brother is injured, they drop everything to help. But all they find where Derek Peterson last saw his sibling is a trail of blood—and men who want them dead. Search and Defend: Undercover to track the assassin who killed his partner, FBI special agent Alex Driscoll accidentally pulls his partner’s widow, Violet Sharp, and her search-and-rescue K-9, Teddy, into the case.

"This is the tale of Mark Horrell’s not-so-nearly ascent of Gasherbrum in Pakistan, of how one man’s boredom and frustration was conquered by a gutsy combination of exhaustion, cowardice, and sheer mountaineering incompetence. He made not one, not two, but three intrepid assaults, some of which got quite a distance beyond Base Camp, and overcame many perilous circumstances along the way. The mountaineer Joe Simpson famously crawled for three days with a broken leg, but did he ever have to read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown while waiting for a weather window?

For 18 years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing's holy grail: to stand atop the world's 14 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much about the man who would become the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest. As Viesturs recounts the stories of his most harrowing climbs, he reveals a man torn between the flat, safe world he and his loved ones share and the majestic and deadly places where only he can go.

When a bolt of lightning ignited a hilltop in the sleepy town of Yarnell, Arizona, in June of 2013, setting off a blaze that would grow into one of the deadliest fires in American history, the 20 men who made up the Granite Mountain Hotshots sprang into action. An elite crew trained to combat the most challenging wildfires, the Granite Mountain Hotshots were a ragtag family crisscrossing the American West and wherever else the fires took them. The Hotshots were loyal to one another and dedicated to the tough job they had.

The adventure continues when Abby and Derick begin their second semester at Cragbridge Hall, the most prestigious secondary school in the world. But when Grandpa Cragbridge admits them to the Council of Keys - a secret group of people who have keys to travel back in time - strange things begin to happen. One by one, members are found unconscious and unable to wake, their keys stolen. Now Abby and Derick must scramble to figure out who is behind the attacks before they become the next victims, which would give their enemy the power to change the past forever.

An angry, determined young man.... a dangerous mountain trail.... Matt is a driven mountain biker seeking a greater thrill with every new sponsored ride, each filmed in video and posted online. He has no patience for inexperienced, wanna-be outdoor enthusiasts, and makes no attempt to veil his contempt. When a high-stakes solo ride takes him on the rugged trails of South America, he battles altitude sickness and unfamiliar terrain, and finds himself confronting his own arrogant ego and self-destructive nature.

Dan and Mary August lived in the valley of their dreams, raising cattle and their young daughter. Unexpected challenges shatter the dreams, forcing them to fight for the life they had chosen. Prayer and a steady gun-hand become Dan’s constant companions.

When he discovers that he has terminal cancer, retired heart surgeon Ben Givens refuses to simply sit back and wait. Instead he takes his two beloved dogs and goes on a last hunt, determined to end his life on his own terms. But as the people he meets and the memories over which he lingers remind him of the mystery of life’s endurance, his trek into the American West becomes much more than a final journey.

Virgil is making his older siblings trek to a mountain lake on a trip unlike any they have taken before. They carry precious cargo: the ashes of their beloved mother, who asked that her remains be scattered at her favorite spot. But when a forest fire is sparked by a bolt of lightning at the exact moment when their van breaks down, the journey quickly turns to disaster. Virgil finds himself separated from his sister and alone in the wilderness. He isn’t sure he can make it, but with the memory of his mother and her lessons to guide him, he learns that survival starts with letting go.

Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team to Chile had crashed deep in the Andes, killing many of his teammates, his mother, and his sister. Stranded with the few remaining survivors on a lifeless glacier and thinking constantly of his father’s grief, Parrado resolved that he could not simply wait to die.

In the untamed Colorado Territory of the 1850s, seventeen-year-old Josephine Wesley's life is shattered when Arapaho raiders attack her family's homestead. After witnessing her father's murder and the capture of her mother and sisters, Josephine is left for dead in the brutal winter wilderness. Finding shelter in an abandoned cabin, she must overcome her fears and learn to survive alone in the harsh mountain environment. When German immigrants Benjamin and Millie Schaeffer return to find Josephine living in their cabin, an unexpected romance blooms between the strong-willed survivor and the...

An inheritance or a lottery and nothing more nor less would have every brought this city slicker couple to this Godforsaken place with mountains and snow as far as one could see. A no man's land with no Internet, no satellite, and no cell phone service. And, not to mention the move-in day in the dead of Winter! But, desperate times call for desperate measures. They embark upon a journey, that will forever change their lives!

#8 - SHADOW DWELLERS - ANOTHER GREAT BOOK FROM D. M. HAGGARD. IN MOUNTAIN MAN SERIES. Cody's journey to Texas is over and the trail beckons him on another dangerous and long journey to the Colorado Rockies. But every trek has its dangers and so does this one. From the West Texas deserts into the rugged foothills of the San Andres Mountains, Cody is plagued by wolf packs, roving Indian warriors and the hazards of Mother Nature. A dangerous river crossing nearly costs him his life as well as the lives of his faithful livestock. Two things keep him going - his love of the wilderness and a ...

"BEASTS" IS THE FIFTH BOOK IN THE MOUNTAIN MAN ADVENTURE SERIES FROM D. M. HAGGARD The Jicarilla tribe have returned to their northern New Mexico homeland thanks to Wilder Hawk, but he believes a full Apache chief is better suited than he is to lead them. Devastated by the loss of their first child, Wilder and his wife, Olathe, embark on a wilderness journey in search of healing. Their trek through mountains, canyons, and deserts brings challenging encounters with beasts of all kinds – animal, human, and powerful forces of nature. Tragedy once again strikes Wilder and he struggles to find...

#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 ...

STONE COLD IS THE SEVENTH BOOK IN THE WILDER HAWK MOUNTAIN MAN ADVENTURE SERIES FROM D. M. HAGGARDWilder’s trek home from Montana to the southern Rockies is interrupted when Crow raiders attack three stranded wagons not far from his campsite. The pioneers are part of a wagon train, left behind when they stopped to nurse a sick family member. Wilder catches up to the major portion of the train in the hope of convincing its leader to wait for the stragglers to catch up. The callous and inexperienced wagon master abruptly quits, leaving the pioneers to their fate. Though he wants to return ...

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 ...