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Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters Books
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Binding: Hardcover
Brand: Alpen
Color: No Color
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.52209798
EAN: 9780393061741
ISBN: 0393061744
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: July 16, 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Sales Rank: 336736
Studio: W. W. Norton
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Product Description:
The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
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M. Tabor draws on previously untapped sources: personal interviews with survivors and those involved in the aftermath, unpublished diaries and letters, and government documents.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. Maps; 8 pages of illustrations.
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Still a mystery in parts, but the story of this expedition is well worth reading and reflecting upon. Despite careful preparation and execution, weather will have its out in the long run, and weather predictions are sketchy and unreliable at best. A good read of a very sad story.
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I highly recommend this book, although I have not read (yet) the books written by expedition leader Joe Wilcox and expedition member Howard Snyder.
You don't get much more thorough than this book, and yet it's not at all boring. It's a fascinating exploration into the history of this expedition: what is known and what can only be guessed at. Even more interesting is that Tabor interviews many of the principals (as many as he could find), including Bradford Washburn and his wife, Joe ... Read More
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I am one of those people that is always in the middle of eight books. I start a book, somewhere along the way I pick something else up, I get busy. this happens to me all the time. Some days I get hours to read other days just minutes - but I read everyday. truly one of my favorite things to do.
This book was something I stumbled on when I got my Kindle as a sample, it is something that is completely out of my normal realm. I am not an outdoor person, not a climber and have never read ... Read More
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Tabor has put together a beautiful, extremely balanced account of a tragedy that includes the objective, the subjective, and quite tastefully, the emotions of the survivors. I read it once, and then had to read it again. The story deserved to be told again, and from a person far removed from the story. Tabor does an incredible job of piecing together an investigation some 40 years later. Tabor's descriptions made me want to, as Snyder described, put my parka on in my living room. Having climbed successfully ... Read More
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Enjoyed the book quite a bit. Thought the author tried to be objective but his appraisals did make themselves known. However, his bias was even-handed and therefore gave a pretty fair picture. Felt the comparison with Everest was not warranted and should not have been brought into the book.
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