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This fully revised and rewritten edition of the Avalanche Handbook continues as the unrivaled resource for comprehensive information on avalanches and snow safety. An outgrowth of the US forest Service's Avalanche Handbook (published 1976), it replaces that work as the indispensable authority on every aspect of avalanche formation, effects, and control. The extensive text and illustrations are technical, yet accessible, and include the latest information, techniques, and research on understand and surviving avalanches.

Includes chapters on:

• Avalanche formation: types and characteristics of avalanches
• Contributing weather and climate factors
• Avalanche terrain, motion and effects
• Avalanche prediction: stability evaluation and forecasting
• Safety and rescue
• Preventative and protective measures

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