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"Avalanche Safety" by Casey Gardner
"Avalanche Safety" by Casey Gardner
"Avalanche Safety" by Casey Gardner
"Avalanche Safety" by Casey Gardner
"Avalanche Safety" by Casey Gardner
"Avalanche Safety" by Casey Gardner
"Avalanche Safety" by Casey Gardner"Avalanche Safety" by Casey Gardner"Avalanche Safety" by Casey Gardner"Avalanche Safety" by Casey Gardner"Avalanche Safety" by Casey Gardner

2020
Letterpress, hand-bound accordion folios
14″ x 7″ x 1″

Steep, snowy slopes conceal loaded terrains of uncertainty. Hidden layers and evolving conditions make stability, which depends on cohesion, difficult to predict. Avalanches represent the precarious balance of interdependent elements in nature and how their forces can be triggered to devastating effect. Mountaineers can find themselves in a path of destruction generated by their own behavior. This book, through a story of two climbers, explores human vulnerability and vision in navigating physical and existential risks. The story reflects our era of environmental peril and the blind path of progress toward our own potential destruction. Nature’s perpetual change, unexposed tendencies and infinite interconnections are touchstones of human desire. It is a story of joy and despair woven in wilderness. Narrative layers investigate the inescapable reliance of humans on nature’s unfathomable complexities. Graphics portray snowflake crystallography, history, geology, and avalanche dynamics.

Casey Gardner, Berkeley, California

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