Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters

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W. W. Norton & Company, 17 de juny 2008 - 432 pàgines

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award
Grand Prize Winner, Banff Mountain Book Festival

"Forever on the Mountain grips even non-climbers with its harrowing scenes of thorny relationships tested by extraordinary circumstances." —Washington Post

In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, were stranded at 20,000 feet on Alaska’s Mount McKinley in a vicious Arctic storm. Ten days passed while the storm raged, yet no rescue was mounted. All seven perished in what remains the most tragic expedition in American climbing history.

Revisiting the event in the tradition of Norman Maclean’s Young Men and Fire, James M. Tabor uncovers elements of controversy, finger-pointing, and cover-up that make this disaster unlike any other.

 

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PART
7
For Want of a Wrist
21
Ire of the Mountain King
37
Clash at Cougar Rock
48
PART
61
Lone Man Walking
76
Divided We Falter
86
Friktion
94
Where Is the Cavalry?
193
A Most Unusual Storm
205
Where Death Has No Meaning
213
Mixed Messages
222
Some Will Die
241
Hard Men Indeed
244
Crossing the River
251
Far Too Little Way Too Late
258

Pictures of an Expedition
108
Terras Incognitas
113
Summit Conference
125
Blowup
134
Odd Man Up
141
PART THREE Accident
161
Just One More Wand
163
Last Words
179
We Will Live to Tell Stories
188
We Cannot Look at Him
263
And Two Make Three
282
One Hell of a Good Story
289
Aftermath
295
Twisting in the Wind
344
Survivors
350
Authors Note
371
Index
377
Copyright

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Sobre l'autor (2008)

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.

Informació bibliogràfica

TítolForever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
AutorJames M. Tabor
Edicióreimpresa
EditorW. W. Norton & Company, 2008
ISBN0393066851, 9780393066852
Nre. de pàgines432 pàgines
  
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