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Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
James M. Tabor
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Description for Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
Hardcover. In July 1967, seven young men-members of Joe Wilcox's twelve-man expedition-died on Mt. McKinley, North America's highest peak. Num Pages: 432 pages, Maps; 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: BT; WSZG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 168 x 35. Weight in Grams: 770.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393061741
SKU
V9780393061741
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About James M. Tabor
James M. Tabor, a former contributing editor to Outside, attempted Mount McKinley and summitted Mount Sanford. He hosted the PBS series The Great Outdoors and cocreated the History Channel series Journey to the Center of the World. He lives in Waitsfield, Vermont.
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