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

Name: Forever on the Mountain The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
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ISBN: 9780393331967

ISBN-10: 0393331962

ISBN-13: 9780393331967

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Authors: James M. Tabor

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Winner of the 2007 Banff Mountain Festival Book Awards Grand Prize (The Phyllis & Don Munday Award): "A riveting account of a long-ago mountaineering disaster."Time In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, were stranded on Alaska's Mount McKinley in a vicious arctic storm. All seven perished on what remains the most tragic expedition in American climbing history. Revisiting the event in the tradition of Norman McLean'sYoung Men and Fire, James M. Tabor uncovers elements of controversy, finger-pointing, and cover-up that combine to make this disaster unlike any other. Maps, 8 pages of photographs.

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.60" wide x 8.30" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Cast of Characters


Prologue: Sharp End of the Dream



Approach



Realms of Myth



For Want of a Wrist



Fool's Gold



Ire of the Mountain King



Clash at Cougar Rock



Ascent



The Long Road North



Lone Man Walking



Divided We Falter



Friktion



Pictures of an Expedition



Terras Incognitas



Summit Conference



Blowup



Odd Man Up



Accident



Just One More Wand



Last Words



We Will Live to Tell Stories



Where Is the Cavalry?



A Most Unusual Storm



Where Death Has No Meaning



Mixed Messages



Some Will Die



Hard Men Indeed



Crossing the River



Far Too Little, Way Too Late



We Cannot Look at Him



And Two Make Three



One Hell of a Good Story



Aftermath



Hanging Jury



Memorable Quotes



Summit and ANAM



Just a Publicity Stunt



Crossing the Line



Remaking History



Twisting in the Wind



Survivors


Author's Note


Recommended Reading


Photograph Credits


Index


Maps


Alaska & Mt. McKinley / Denali


Mount McKinley, Alaska / Route of the Wilcox Expedition


1967 Tragedy Area: Camp VII to Summit