| 000 -LEADER |
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| fixed length control field |
01908cam a2200205 a 4500 |
| 020 ## - ISBN |
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| ISBN |
0312969856 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
Fic K815 1998 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Kocour, Ruth Anne. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Facing the extreme : |
| Remainder of title |
one woman's story of true courage, death-defying survival, and her quest for the summit / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Ruth Anne Kocour as told to Michael Hodgson. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
St. Martin's Paperbacks, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c1999. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent/Page number |
273 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
She stepped into a death zone. The climbers on Alaska's Mt. McKinley called her "the woman." Ruth Anne Kocour, a world-class mountaineer, wasn't bothered. It was part of the challenge she faced as she joined an all-male team to conquer North America's highest peak ... the mountain the Indians called Denali, or God. Faced the extreme. But nine days into this ascent, a forty-fifth birthday present to herself, the most violent weather on record slammed into the mountain. Ruth Anne and her group would be trapped on an ice shelf at 14,000 feet for the deadliest two weeks in Denali history. Pinned down by blinding snows, unable to help other teams dying around her, and her own feet freezing solid, Ruth Anne tells of a wind chill of minus 150 degrees, deadly hidden crevasses, and being trapped in a place so violent and unforgiving that it threatened to push her over the edge and into a place of no return. And yet, in prose as crystalline as the ice around her, she tells, too, of beauty, courage, and the spirit that drives true mountaineers higher, as she risks all to go for the summit ... and perhaps, for a transcendent moment, touch heaven. And lived to tell about it. |
| 526 ## - STUDY PROGRAM INFORMATION NOTE |
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| PROGRAM TYPE |
Fine Arts and Recreation (architecture, sculpture, painting, music, photography and recreation) |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Kocour, Ruth Anne. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Mountaineering--Alaska--Denali, Mount--History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Women mountaineers--United States--Biography. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Denali, Mount (Alaska)--Description and travel. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME/OTHER AUTHORS |
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| Personal name |
Hodgson, Michael. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS |
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| Classification |
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| Item type |
Book |
