{"product_id":"wager-with-the-wind-the-don-sheldon-story-by-greiner-james","title":"Wager with the Wind: The Don Sheldon Story by Greiner, James","description":"\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0528818562\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Greiner, James\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e new\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003ePerhaps nowhere else on earth is there still a breed of daring, rugged individualists to match the bush pilots of Alaska. And Don Sheldon, one of the few pilots who make high-risk mountain flying a full-time job, is a legend among this special group. Not even the most inventive adventure-fiction writer could improve on some of Sheldon's exploits. In the Devil's Canyon episode, to name just one, Sheldon lands his floatplane in a river and allows the racing current to carry him backward through raging rapids to save the lives of a stranded team of army scouts. There was no reason to believe that it could be done-that he and his plane could survive the attempt-and yet he repeats the hair-raisingly risky feat three times. A grateful U.S. Army presented Sheldon with a citation, one of several, for doing it. Sheldon was among the first pilots to perfect mountainside glacier landings-uphill, in crosswinds, on tiny patches of snow and ice where yawning crevasses lurk just below the surface. Flying teams of mountain climbers and scientists onto Mount McKinley, he has also repeatedly been the one who pulls them out when disaster strikes-and in the swirling winds and numbing cold of McKinley, disaster strikes often.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eUsed Book in Good Condition\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n        ","brand":"Miakarts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49673464643824,"sku":"NEW0528818562","price":81.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ethereallybeautiful.com\/products\/wager-with-the-wind-the-don-sheldon-story-by-greiner-james","provider":"Ethereally Beautiful","version":"1.0","type":"link"}