Personality characteristics in extreme sports athletes: Morbidity and mortality in mountaineering and BASE jumping

Adventure and Extreme Sports Injuries: Epidemiology, Treatment, Rehabilitation and Prevention

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 303-314

  Monasterio, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-4363-5_14     Document Type: Chapter

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