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

ISBN: 0393331962

Author: Tabor, James M.

Condition: New

Winner of the National Outdoor Book AwardGrand 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 PostIn 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 Alaskas 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 Macleans Young Men and Fire, James M. Tabor uncovers elements of controversy, finger-pointing, and cover-up that make this disaster unlike any other.