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Glacier wings and Tales
 

   
  By:
Jack Wilson
  Pages: 214  
  Dimensions: 6" x 9"  
  Price: $19.95 (Soft Cover) In Stock
ISBN# 0-937708-18-6
  
    $39.95 (Hard Back) Out of Stock
ISBN# 0-937708-14-3		  
 
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Jack Wilson is a living legend. Born in Colorado, and taught to fly fearlessly during air raids over Germany in WWII, he has spent a lifetime in Alaska flying high and landing dangerously near the very crags and summits of North America's highest mountains. Noted for his ability to pierce icy storms and land safely on top of Mount Wrangall to service a variety of military, scientific, and mountain climbing clients, Jack Wilson also is known and loved world-wide for his mercy flights of rescue on Mount McKinley and elsewhere. This volume recounts many of his more memorable adventures aloft, including his daring co-rescue of the internationally famous John Day Expedition on Mount McKinley with Don Sheldon. Not since Jim Griener's book about Don Sheldon, entitled Wager With The Wind, has there been such a saga of daring, skill and high flying savvy in the Far North. This book, written by the pilot himself, is must reading for anyone who wants to know and understand the men who comprise America's rarest and most elite airmen, these few whom Alaskans lovingly call "glacier pilots".  
 
 
 

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