1967
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expedition
high altitude
howard snyder
joe wilcox
mount mckinley
mountain climbing
mt mckinley
national outdoor book award winner
national park service
rescue
storm
summit
tragedy
weather
wonder lake
Product details
- ISBN 9780393331967
- Weight: 386g
- Dimensions: 142 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jun 2008
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
James M. Tabor is the author of six books, including the award-winning Forever on the Mountain and best-selling Blind Descent. A creator of the History Channel’s Journey to the Center of the World, he has written for Time, Smithsonian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and others. He lives in Waitsfield, Vermont.
