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Shattered Air : A True Account of Catastrophe and Courage on Yosemite's Half Dome  
Author: Bob Madgic
ISBN: 1580801307
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From Publishers Weekly
Madgic claims that "in the annals of hiking tragedies caused by lightning," an ill-fated climb up Yosemite's famed Half Dome mountain by five experienced hikers in 1985 was "one of the most calamitous... of all time." Two of the hikers were killed and three sustained life-altering injuries after they decided to ignore signs of an oncoming thunderstorm and continued climbing a mountain...