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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 796.52209798 EAN: 9780393331967 ISBN: 0393331962 Label: W. W. Norton Manufacturer: W. W. Norton Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 432 Publication Date: June 02, 2008 Publisher: W. W. Norton Studio: W. W. Norton Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 Maclean's Young 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. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Absorbing and interesting adventureStill 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. Rating: - Thorough and comprehensiveI 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 Rating:  - Great SupriseI 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 Rating: - Chilling and Wonderful! 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 Rating:  - Forever on the MountainEnjoyed 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. |
