Product Description

This book has all the ingredients of a series of "thriller" detective stories, with the added fascination that the searches and rescues described by Bob Maslen-Jones are true, and related by a first-hand witness:- the author himself....The combination of skilled mountain rescue teams and their dogs with the helicopter pilots of the Royal Air Force, adds further flavour to these gripping stories... permit me to recommend "Countdown to Rescue" to everyone who ventures upon our mountains, and to many others besides.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1151941 in Books
• Published on: 1993-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

W. F. Holmström
I would recommend Countdown to Rescue to all mountain/crag enthusiasts and would suggest that it is not simply read at home and then confined to the bookcase.

Geoffrey Templeman, The Alpine Journal
In Countdown to Rescue, Bob Maslen-Jones recounts his personal experiences in mountain rescue work in Snowdonia over the past 15 years or so.

From the Publisher
The Ernest Press are award-winning, specialist publishers of mountaineering books including narratives, guides and novels, and mountain biking guides for the UK. We are a sponsor of the Bretton Hall Mountain Literature Festival. Four Ernest Press titles have won the Boardman Tasker Award, with three being shortlisted.

Customer Reviews

This book is a must for everybody walking and in mountains
This book deals with the history of the Welsh SARDA or Search And Rescue Dog Association during the 1980's. Split into seperate rescue stories this books teaches you a lot about the always present riscs when walking in the hills and mountains of Snowdonia, but the stories go for every mountainrange. When reading this book you automatically learn about which precautions you can take, and how to deal with emergencies yourself, without being a dull study.I learned a lot from it, and it made me feel much more secure about what I am doing when up there. The only reason I didn,t give it a 5 star qualification is the somewhat poor quality of the b&w photographs. Highly recommended Rob Plas

A must for all walkers and climbers
This book, the first from Bob Maslen-Jones, tells through a series of suspenseful episodes the story of the search and rescue work of the volunteer teams in Snowdonia and Scotland, the creation of the Search And Rescue Dog Association (SARDA) and the contribution the Association has made in countless mountain rescues.

An active member of SARDA himself for nearly fifteen years, Bob Maslen-Jones is able to draw on first-hand experience to bring to life the incidents in which highly-trained teams of dogs and men respond to the news that someone in the mountains has met with an accident or failed to show up at an expected rendezvous. Some of the dogs' exploits he describes are nothing short of spectacular, but nevertheless SARDA had a hard struggle getting the message accepted that dogs have a significant part to play in search and rescue work.

The book carries a foreword by the late Lord Hunt of Llanfairwaterdine, who as Colonel John Hunt led the historic expedition which conquered Everest in 1953. It should be on the reading list of everyone who walks or climbs in the mountains and hills of Great Britain.

Graham Brown

March 1999