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Forever on the Mountain

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

by James Tabor
Scott Brick
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In the summer of 1967, an Arctic hurricane trapped seven veteran climbers, members of Joe Wilcox's twelve-man expedition, at 20,000 feet on Alaska's Mount McKinley. Ten days passed while the storm raged. Despite the availability of massive resources, no rescue was mounted, and all seven men died. The tragedy was one of the most controversial, bitterly contested, and mysterious tragedies in all of mountaineering history.
No bodies were ever recovered. No cameras, diaries, or films shed light on the climbers' final agonizing days. Yet agenda-driven critics and officials fearing lawsuits pronounced self-serving verdicts. Further obscuring the truth, two prominent expedition members offered conflicting versions of the catastrophe.
Through interviews with those involved, unpublished correspondence and diaries, and sensitive government documents, James M. Tabor uncovers an array of new information: a feud between the expedition leader, Joe Wilcox; a stillborn rescue operation thwarted by the Park Service bureaucracy; and the heroic efforts made by other civilian climbers. To interpret the details, he consults experts in disciplines as diverse as forensics, meteorology, and psychology.
In the end, Tabor has pieced together for the first time the complete, untold story of this expedition whose victims and survivors both remain, in many ways, forever on the mountain.
From the Compact Disc edition.

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    July 17, 2007

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      • ISBN: 9781415941669
      • File size: 457460 KB
      • Duration: 15:53:02

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Seven men climbing Mount McKinley on a 1967 expedition died after being trapped by a storm. Who was responsible? The debate continues to this day, and Tabor considers the arguments as he tells the story of the disastrous climb. Scott Brick's narration brings out the drama of facing the elements. Emphasizing the tension and danger of such an endeavor, he gives a gripping delivery of passages about the climb itself and about past mountain-climbing tragedies. Brick also brings alive the passions of the debate. Tabor's thoroughness in examining the arguments over responsibility does mean a few slow passages, although, overall, the book has plenty of thrills. J.A.S. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine

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