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A bolt from the blue, the epic true story of danger, daring, and heroism at 13,000 feet, Jennifer Woodlief

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A bolt from the blue, the epic true story of danger, daring, and heroism at 13,000 feet, Jennifer Woodlief

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eng

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non fiction

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A bolt from the blue

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electronic resource eBook

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Jennifer Woodlief

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the epic true story of danger, daring, and heroism at 13,000 feet

Summary

On the afternoon of July 26, 2003, six vacationing mountain climbers ascended the peak of the Grand Teton in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Rain and colliding air currents blew in, and soon a massive electrical charge began to build. As the group began to retreat from its location, a colossal lightning bolt struck and pounded through the body of every climber. One of the six died instantly, one lay critically injured next to her body, and four dangled perilously into the chasm below. In riveting, page-turning prose, veteran journalist Jennifer Woodlief tells the story of the climb, the arrival of the storm, and the unprecedented rescue by the Jenny Lake Rangers, one of the most experienced climbing search-and-rescue teams in the country

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