Download or read book Heroic Efforts written by Jennifer Lois and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroic Efforts is an ethnography of a volunteer mountain search and rescue group, which the author joined and actively participated in for six years. It examines the motivations behind the volunteers' altruistic behaviour.