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Den 15. marts 2017 sker der et enormt lavineskred tæt på fjeldet Gråskallen i Haugastøl. En tysk rejsegruppe på seks personer er på skitur i det forrygende uvejr. Den 23-årige Adina Lange bliver begravet i snemasserne. Hun ligger fanget halvanden meter under sneen og kan kun bevæge et par fingre i den ene vante.I Under sne kommer læseren tæt på en fars desperate søgen efter sin datter og på Adinas kamp for livet. Samtidig følger man også den utrolige indsats fra både professionelle og frivillige, som gør alt for at redde den unge kvindes liv.Under sne er en dramatisk og rørende historie om kampen for livet i vild natur – og med både tobenede og firbenede helte.Bjørn Asle Nord (f. 1968) er fra Nordfjordeid og bor i Bergen. Han arbejder ved NRK med digitale klima- og naturfortællinger. Tidligere var han i mange år ansat som journalist ved Bergens Tidende. Nord er kendt for både journalistiske fortællinger og undersøgende journalistik af høj kvalitet. I 2014 udgav han bogen ”Giv meg heller livet. Ein dokumentar om soldatveteranar i Norge” sammen med fotograf Håvard Bjelland.

One Lion and One Man Who BelievedK’wasi the lion was born at Zoo Miami in late 2013 and captured the heartsof the nation; however, his story soon turned dark as K’wasi was orphaned onlya few months later. Join wildlife documentarian Ron Magill and Miami Heraldcolumnist Greg Cote as they detail the remarkable true story of K’wasi.Magill and Cote reflect on K’wasi’s fight for life and the parallels to Magill’sown improbable and unique path into wildlife conservation. Magill and Cotehighlight the beauty and suffering found in K’wasi’s story and throughout theanimal kingdom in the hopes of helping us all understand that, in the end, weprotect what we love, we love what we understand, and we understand what we’retaught.Funny, touching, and profound, The Pride of a Lion teaches us justhow much humans can learn from animals.

In the middle of a moonless night in 1913, the Terra Nova steams silently into Oamaru harbour in New Zealand. The men aboard have a desperate mission - they must reach the relatives of Scott's South Pole expedition before the morning papers break the news that the whole party have perished.

A 2021 Daily Telegraph Book of the YearWinner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award ?Everyone should read the testimonies of the Chibok girls who survived the capture. We need to help with efforts to liberate all of them and become more responsible for women and girls' protection in conflicts.? ? Malala YousafzaiWhat happens after you click Tweet? The heart-stopping definitive account of the mission to rescue hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls whose abduction ignited a global social media campaign and a dramatic worldwide intervention. In the spring of 2014, millions of Twitter users, including some of the world's most famous people, unwittingly helped turn a group of 276 schoolgirls abducted by a little-known Islamist sect into a central prize in the global War on Terror by retweeting a call for their release: #BringBackOurGirls. With just four words, their tweets launched an army of would-be liberators. Soldiers and drones, spies, mercenaries, and glory hunters descended into an obscure conflict that few understood, in a remote part of Nigeria that had barely begun to use the internet. When hostage talks and military intervention failed, the schoolgirls were forced to take survival into their own hands. As their days in captivity dragged into years, the young women learned to withstand hunger, disease, and torment, and became witnesses and victims of unspeakable brutality. Many of the girls were Christians who refused to take the one path offered them?converting to their captors' fundamentalist creed. In secret, they sang hymns, and kept a diary, relying on their faith and friendships to stay alive.Bring Back Our Girls unfolds across four continents, from the remote forests of northern Nigeria to the White House; from clandestine meetings in Khartoum safe houses to century-old luxury hotels on picturesque lakes in the Swiss Alps. A twenty-first century story that plumbs the promise and peril of an era whose politics are fueled by the power of hashtag advocacy, this urgent and engrossing work of investigative journalism reveals the unpredictable interconnectedness of our butterfly-wings world, where a few days of online activism can bring years of offline consequences for people continents away.

A young American travels to a foreign land seeking adventure and finds unexpected love, moments before Lebanon tips into war overnight. Running away from rocket fire, in the darkest of moments, his spirit awakens.

100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood.We are always captivated by tales of courage and bravery, of world-firsts and death-defying experiences. In this anthology, explorer and bestselling author Levison Wood has gathered 100 of the most fascinating accounts of human endurance throughout history. From the heroism of Antarctic explorers to pioneering women in the Middle East, from record-breaking athletes to survivors of war and torture, this wide-ranging collection embraces both classics of the genre, as well as new and neglected voices. The extracts are organised around a range of themes; you will find those who sought out new frontiers, or who purposely tested their physical limits in full knowledge of the dangers or risks they might face, but also those who endured persecution and suffering, or were thrust into life or death situations yet defied the odds to survive.Endurance is packed full of you-couldn't-make-it-up true stories and adventure fiction classics, from the high seas to the poles, from inhospitable jungles and deserts to the unknown realms of space, through physical and mental despair to euphoric highs. Yet all of these extraordinary stories celebrate the enduring nature of the human spirit, and show the mental and physical determination it sometimes takes to achieve one's aims.This varied and compelling collection will take you on an adventure around the world, but also on an emotional journey exploring what it means to be human.Includes extracts about and by Ernest Shackleton, Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, Amelia Earhart, Marie Colvin, Jon Krakauer, Solomon Northup, Ella Maillart, Freya Stark, Ed Stafford, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Aron Lee Ralston, María Elena Moyano, Gertrude Bell, Isabelle Eberhardt, Nellie Bly, Alex Honnold, Nelson Mandela, David Nott, Jules Verne, Neil Armstrong and Scott Kelly.

?An astonishing and deeply moving work.??Booklist (starred review)?An engrossing, intense, and highly descriptive narrative chronicling the ghastly conditions three pregnant women suffered through at the hands of the Nazis.??Kirkus ReviewsAmong the millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each pass through the concentration camp's infamous gates with a secret. Separated from their husbands and strangers to one another, they are pregnant and scared. After losing so many other loved ones to the Nazis, these women are determined to hold on to all they have left: their lives and those of their unborn babies.Born Survivors follows them as, against all the odds, they give birth to their babies and go on to build new lives with their children after World War II. Theirs are stories of hardships and miracles as they narrowly escape the clutches of Dr. Josef Mengele at Auschwitz; conceal their condition after they are sent to a Nazi slave-labor camp, where they are half-starved and almost worked to death; and as the Allies close in, survive a seventeen-day train journey to Mauthausen in Austria. By the time they arrive, all three babies have been born?but because the camp has run out of Zyklon B, their lives and those of their mothers are saved. Sixty-five years later, the three ?miracle babies? share a remarkable, inspirational story of three mothers who defied death at the hands of the Nazis to give their children life.

An extraordinary story of courage, forgiveness and reconciliation. Sabina Wolanski was just 12 years old when her home town in Poland was invaded by Nazis. In her diary, along with innocent adolescent longings, she recorded what happened next: the humiliations and terrors, the murder of her beloved family and the startling story of her own survival. Leaving Europe after the war, Sabina forged a new life in Australia, juggling a thriving design business, her family, and an unorthodox love life. But as time wore on, she began asking herself why had she survived when so many died? And what kind of justice fitted such crimes? In May 2005, when Germany opened its controversial Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, in Berlin, Sabina was chosen to speak as the voice of the six million dead. In her speech she noted that although the Holocaust had taken everything she valued, it had also taught her that hatred and discrimination are doomed to fail. Her ability to survive, to love, and to live well, has been her greatest triumph. 'I couldn't put down this engaging, honest story of love, loss and survival.' Diane Armstrong, bestselling author of tHE VOYAGER OF tHEIR LIFE 'important and wonderfully written' Australian Literary Review

In Prepare Your Home for a Sudden Grid-Down Situation, you'll discover:¿ The most likely causes of a grid-down situation -- and how they'll affect your family¿ Easy immediate short-term solutions to see you through the first few days of disaster¿ Grid-down cooking options (you'll be amazed by how many ways there are to feed your family a delicious hot meal without your cooker)¿ A full range of emergency backup solutions you can fall back on if you're currently totally reliant on the grid¿ What to do when cash means nothing -- think outside the box to make sure your family thrives¿ The ultimate guide to making sure your family has access to clean, safe water (no matter what's going on outside)¿ Exactly what you can do to stay healthy and well when the toilet won't flush, the washing machine's useless, and a long hot bath is out of the question¿ Everything you need to know about communicating with the outside world in a grid-down emergency¿ A clear breakdown of your off-grid power options -- so you can plan now for any unexpected event¿ Easy DIY projects you can work through right now to sharpen your skills and prepare for the worstAnd much more.

This book reveals the stories and legends of people who once lived and accomplished extraordinary missions in their lifetime. Their biographies were notably responsible for the emergenceof a number of fictional superheroes.This publication is an artistic introduction to real superheroes of former times.

Finding God at the City Dump: The George LeMaster StoryIt was Valentine's Day 1982. After two decades of alcohol abuse and a growing list of related problems, George LeMaster Jr. had lost hope. He went to a place where he was familiar--the Wayland Dump, northeast of Wayland, Missouri.He had scavenged things like bicycle parts and old fans from the dump for years and given them a new life.George took a handgun and was planning to end his life at the dump that cold February morning but instead found God by one small item at the dump he didn't expect to see. That item caught his attention and changed his story when he was moments away from an irreversible and needless decision.Now it was George getting a new life, finding the love of Jesus, and rediscovering a love of his family.Finding God at the City Dump tells George's story of growing up in tiny Wayland in Clark County, Missouri; the alcoholism; the deliverance that God gave him starting at the dump; an incredible healing; the importance of caring friends; and the purpose God gave George that led to his salvation, participation in music, his eventual ministry, and powerful testimony as well as a platform to share it.His story reminds us that God can work through difficult and impossible circumstances to bring things for his glory.

Nepal, c. 1900: The single deadliest animal in recorded history began stalking humans, moving like a phantom through the lush foothills of the Himalayas. As the death toll reached an astonishing 435 lives, a young local hunter was dispatched to stop the now-legendary man-eater before it struck again. One part pulse-pounding thriller, one part soulful natural history of the endangered Royal Bengal tiger, acclaimed writer Dane Huckelbridge's No Beast So Fierce is the gripping true account of the Champawat Tiger, which terrified northern India and Nepal from 1900 to 1907, and Jim Corbett, the legendary hunter who pursued it. Huckelbridge's masterful telling also reveals that the tiger, Corbett, and the forces that brought them together are far more complex and fascinating than a simple man-versus-beast tale. At the turn of the twentieth century, as British rule of India tightened and bounties were placed on tiger's heads, a tigress was shot in the mouth by a poacher. Injured but alive, it turned from its usual hunting habits to easier prey?humans. For the next seven years, this man-made killer terrorized locals, growing bolder with every kill. Colonial authorities, desperate for help, finally called upon Jim Corbett, a then-unknown railroad employee of humble origins who had grown up hunting game through the hills of Kumaon. Like a detective on the trail of a serial killer, Corbett tracked the tiger's movements in the dense, hilly woodlands?meanwhile, the animal shadowed Corbett in return. Then, after a heartbreaking new kill of a young woman whom he was unable to protect, Corbett followed the gruesome blood trail deep into the forest where hunter and tiger would meet at last.Drawing upon on-the-ground research in the Indian Himalayan region where he retraced Corbett's footsteps, Huckelbridge brings to life one of the great adventure sagas of the twentieth century. And yet Huckelbridge draws a deeper, more complex story into focus, placing the episode into its full context for the first time: that of colonialism's disturbing impact on the ancient balance between man and tiger; and that of Corbett's own evolution from a celebrated hunter to a principled conservationist who in time would earn fame for his devotion to saving the Bengal tiger and its habitat. Today the Corbett Tiger Reserve protects 1,200 km of wilderness; within its borders is Jim Corbett National Park, India's oldest and most prestigious national park and a vital haven for the very animals Corbett once hunted.An unforgettable tale, magnificently told, No Beast So Fierce is an epic of beauty, terror, survival, and redemption for the ages.

In her new book, Shantial returns to express and recount the struggles she dealt with while homeless, the violent relationships she was in, exposure to drug dealing, as well as familial conflicts. She describes how she was able to turn her life around, turn the struggles into positive stepping-stones for a new life. She details heartbreaks, setbacks, and misfortunes, revealing how she was shattered again and again by disappointment, but kept striving forward.The is the story of one woman's harrowing tale you will never forget.

Through the lens of a single day, we are offered a glimpse of the whole life of Hilkka Mednis. One of five daughters of Pauli and Anne Polvinen, Hilkka enjoyed a happy early childhood until her mother died in childbirth. Then, at the age of thirteen, on the invasion of Finland by the Red Army, she, together with her father and three of her sisters were deported to Siberia.On the day she finds out her son, an up and coming ballet dancer, has defected, Hilkka describes her experiences including the interrogation, and, in so doing, we are dipped into the tough, mundane and, sometimes, sublime nature of Soviet life. Whilst the book is set in the past it is very much about determination, grit, bravery and resilience, the Finnish term for which is 'sisu'.