James M. Tabor

Forever on the Mountain (eBook, ePUB)

The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393066852
• Artikelnr.: 59591051

Autorenporträt

James M. Tabor authored 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, Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. He lives in Waitsfield, Vermont.