An edition of Forever on the Mountain (2007)

Forever on the mountain

The truth behind one of mountaineering's most controversial and mysterious disasters

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An edition of Forever on the Mountain (2007)

Forever on the mountain

The truth behind one of mountaineering's most controversial and mysterious disasters

1st ed.
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In July 1967, seven young men―members of Joe Wilcox's twelve-man expedition―died on Mt. McKinley, North America's highest peak.
Ten days passed with no rescue attempt, while more than half an expedition was stranded and dying at 20,000 feet during a vicious Arctic storm. The bodies were never recovered. And, for reasons that have remained cloudy, there was no proper official investigation of the catastrophe.

This book begins as a classic tale of men against nature, gambling―and losing―on one of the world's starkest and stormiest peaks. Reckoning by lives lost, it was history's third-worst mountaineering disaster when it occurred―but elements of finger pointing, incompetence, and cover-up make this disaster unlike any other. James M. Tabor draws on previously untapped sources: personal interviews with survivors and those involved in the aftermath, unpublished diaries and letters, and government documents. He consults not only mountaineers but also experts in disciplines including meteorology, forensics, and psychology. What results is the first full account of the tragedy that ended a golden age in mountaineering.

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W. W. Norton
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
796.52209798
Library of Congress
GV199.42.A42 M3273 2007, GV199.42.A42M3273

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL17874741M
Internet Archive
foreveronmountai00tabo
ISBN 13
9780393061741
LCCN
2007013711
Library Thing
3503631
Goodreads
295297

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