1974
First Published
313
Number of Pages
The first of several of the planned trans Alaska pipelines i snot completed and two million barrels of hot oil (160 degrees F) pour through it daily. Outside the temp. is minus 70 degrees. If the oil itself were 32 degrees, to avoid threat to perma frosts and ecosystem, 100,000 more horsepower would be needed at the pumps. But the oil is hot, and those horses are not in the system or anywhere near. An earthquake strikes, rougher than the one that in 1964 almost destroyed Valdez, at the pipeline's tanker terminus in the stormy, tidal-wave-prone Gulf of Alaska.
Author
Harvey Manning
Author · 6 books
Harvey Manning was a noted author of hiking guides and climbing textbooks, and a tireless hiking advocate. Manning lived on Cougar Mountain, within the city limits of Bellevue, Washington, calling his home the "200 meter hut". His book Walking the Beach to Bellingham is an autobiography and manifesto fleshing out his journal of a hike along the shore of Puget Sound over a two year span. -Wikipedia
