Doug Scott

Many chemical engineering graduates leave university with limited practical experience, including in the important field of Process Safety. Authored by two veterans of industry, this book provides early career engineers with a strong practical background in Process Safety. It contains basic theory to bolster an understanding of the subject, while the bulk of the book gives practical information covering both design and operation of process plants. It offers an interactive approach, with frequent links between chapters and inclusion of numerous case histories to illustrate and support the text.• Serves as a simple introduction with a bias towards practical and realistic solutions.• Discusses a wide range of safety related subjects with comprehensive links to more detailed references.• Covers both design and operation of plants.• Features a significant number of brief case histories to offer real-world context, many of which have not been published elsewhere.With its accessible and hands-on approach, this book gives early career chemical engineers a deeper understanding of the issues they will face while on the job and practical solutions to address and avoid problems. The book’s many cases studies will also be of value to more experienced engineers.

Completed before his death in 2020, Kangchenjunga is Doug Scott's final book. Scott explores the mountain and its people before going on to look at Western approaches and climbing attempts, including his own in 1979. Kangchenjunga is Scott's tribute to this sacred mountain, a paean for a Himalayan giant, written by a giant of Himalayan climbing.

'One of the greatest mountaineering survival stories never told.' – The Sunday Times Some mountains are high; some mountains are hard. Few are both. On the afternoon of 13 July 1977, having become the first climbers to reach the summit of the Ogre, Doug Scott and Chris Bonington began their long descent. In the minutes that followed, any feeling of success from their achievement would be overwhelmed by the start of a desperate fight for survival. And things would only get worse. Rising to over 7,000 metres in the centre of the Karakoram, the Ogre – Baintha Brakk – is notorious in mountaineering circles as one of the most difficult mountains to climb. First summited by Scott and Bonington in 1977 – on expedition with Paul ‘Tut’ Braithwaite, Nick Estcourt, Clive Rowland and Mo Anthoine – it waited almost twenty-four years for a second ascent, and a further eleven years for a third. The Ogre, by legendary mountaineer Doug Scott, is a two-part biography of this enigmatic peak: in the first part, Scott has painstakingly researched the geography and history of the mountain; part two is the long overdue and very personal account of his and Bonington’s first ascent and their dramatic week-long descent on which Scott suffered two broken legs and Bonington smashed ribs. Using newly discovered diaries, letters and audio tapes, it tells of the heroic and selfless roles played by Clive Rowland and Mo Anthoine. When the desperate climbers finally made it back to base camp, they were to find it abandoned – and themselves still a long way from safety. The Ogre is undoubtedly one of the greatest adventure stories of all time.

'A full and fascinating portrait of one of the great figures of mountaineering.' – Michael PalinAt dusk on 24 September 1975, Doug Scott and Dougal Haston became the first Britons to reach the summit of Everest as lead climbers on Chris Bonington's epic expedition to the mountain's immense south-west face.As darkness fell, Scott and Haston scraped a small cave in the snow 100 metres below the summit and survived the highest bivouac ever – without bottled oxygen, sleeping bags and, as it turned out, frostbite. For Doug Scott, it was the fulfilment of a fortune-teller's prophecy given to his mother: that her eldest son would be in danger in a high place with the whole world watching.Scott and Haston returned home national heroes with their image splashed across the front pages. Scott went on to become one of Britain's greatest ever mountaineers, pioneering new climbs in the remotest corners of the globe. His career spans the golden age of British climbing from the 1960s boom in outdoor adventure to the new wave of lightweight alpinism throughout the 1970s and 1980s.In Up and About, the first volume of his autobiography, Scott tells his story from his birth in Nottingham during the darkest days of war to the summit of the world. Surviving the unplanned bivouac without oxygen near the summit of Everest widened the range of what and how he would climb in the future. In fact, Scott established more climbs on the high mountains of the world after his ascent of Everest than before. Those climbs will be covered in the second volume of his life and times.

On July 31, 1976 conservation history was made where the fast-flowing Snake River in Hells Canyon forms the border between Oregon and Idaho. Here a ceremony is held on the Oregon rim to dedicate the new Hells Canyon National Recreation Area. This dedication prohibited any future dams in the canyon and designated the Middle Snake Wild River and Hells Canyon Wilderness Area. This is the story of how this dedication came to be.

In 1982, following the relaxation of access restrictions to Tibet, six climbers set off for the Himalaya to explore the little-known Shishapangma massif in Tibet. Dealing with a chaotic build-up and bureaucratic obstacles so huge they verged on comical, the mountaineers gained access to Shishapangma's unclimbed South-West Face where Doug Scott, Alex MacIntyre and Roger Baxter-Jones made one of the most audacious and stylish Himalayan climbs ever. First published in 1984 as The Shishapangma Expedition, Shishapangma won the first ever Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. Told through a series of diary-style entries from all the climbers involved, Shishapangma reveals the difficult nature of Himalayan decision-making, mountaineering tactics and climbing relationships. Tense and candid, the six writers see every event differently, reacting in different ways and pulling no punches in their opinions of the other mountaineers – quite literally at one point. Nonetheless, the climbers, at the peak of their considerable powers and experience, completed an extremely committing enterprise. The example set by their fine climb survives and several new routes (all done in alpine style) have now been added to this magnificent face. For well-trained climbers, such ascents are fast and efficient, but the consequences of error, misjudgement or bad luck can be terminal and, sadly, soon afterwards two of the participants were struck down in mountaineering accidents - MacIntyre hit by stonefall on Annapurna's South Face and Baxter-Jones being caught by an ice avalanche on the Aiguille du Triolet. In addition their support climber, Nick Prescott, died in a Chamonix hospital from an altitude-induced ailment. Shishapangma is a gripping first-hand account of the intense reality of high-altitiude alpinism.

This book presents more than a couple hundred waterfalls I have found in New Mexico. I have lived in and hiked New Mexico for most of my 63 years. I'm a "Waterfall Lover" and I have published "New Mexico Waterfalls Handbook" to share these sweet waterfalls with you. 188 pages - 6" x 9" with over 160 full-page photos. gps coordinates and brief descriptions appear for each waterfall. However, I do not "spoon-feed" you... so you will have to do some homework on your own before "discovering" these waterfalls for yourself. I have also recently published "New Mexico Waterfalls"...a full-color version of this book and... "Taos Waterfalls" which concentrates on north central New Mexico. Now you can hit the back-country with a delicious goal beckoning... Each and every waterfall has it's own unique personality... it's own energy... it's own discovery... Become a "Waterfall-Lover"... get hooked on "Waterfalling"...

This book presents more than a couple hundred waterfalls I have found in New Mexico. I have lived in and hiked New Mexico for most of my 61 years. I'm a "Waterfall Lover" and I have published "New Mexico Waterfalls" to share these sweet waterfalls with you. 157 pages - 8.5" x 11" with over 140 full color photos... primarily full page images. gps coordinates and brief descriptions appear for each waterfall. However, I do not "spoon-feed" you... so you will have to do some homework on your own before "discovering" these waterfalls for yourself. I have also recently published "Taos Waterfalls" which concentrates on north central New Mexico. Now you can hit the back-country with a delicious goal beckoning... Each and every waterfall has it's own unique personality... it's own energy... it's own discovery... Become a "Waterfall-Lover"... get hooked on "Waterfalling"...