Also in the genre, Accidents in North American Mountaineering, which is published every year. It includes dissections of what went wrong and how to avoid the problems.
My dad had most of the deaths-in-national-parks books. He'd worked in the parks as a young man, then for the US Forest Service and vacationed in them. Then he discovered the mountaineering accidents reports and would have me find them (because he wasn't on the internet).
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Date: 2018-09-22 08:23 pm (UTC)My dad had most of the deaths-in-national-parks books. He'd worked in the parks as a young man, then for the US Forest Service and vacationed in them. Then he discovered the mountaineering accidents reports and would have me find them (because he wasn't on the internet).