Forever on the Mountain
by James M. Tabor

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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.

Reckoning by lives lost, the tragedy was history's third-worst mountaineering disaster when it occurred. It marked the end of the golden age of pioneer climbing on McKinley, North America's highest peak, and it still stands as the continent's worst expeditionary mountaineering disaster. It has remained, as well, one of the most controversial, bitterly contested, and mysterious tragedies in all of mountaineering history.

No bodies were ever recovered. No cameras, diaries, or IMAX films shed light on the climbers' final agonizing days. Yet agenda-driven critics and officials fearing lawsuits pronounced self-serving verdicts that effectively ended investigations of the tragedy before it began. Further obscuring the truth, two prominent expedition members who fought on the mountain continued their battle in books that offered conflicting versions of the catastrophe.

With an array of new information James M. Tabor portrays an expedition threatened both from without-by crevasses, altitude sickness, avalanches, and horrific storms – and from within, as growing animosities transformed suspicion and dislike to outright hostility.

Through face-to-face interviews with those involved, unpublished correspondence and diaries, and sensitive government documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, Tabor uncovers the lost stories of a feud between young expedition leader, Joe Wilcox, and a mountaineering legend; a stillborn rescue operation thwarted by the Park Service bureaucracy; and the heroic efforts made by other civilian climbers on the mountain to reach the stranded men. 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 an expedition that changed mountaineering and whose victims and survivors both remain, in many ways, forever on the mountain.

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Weight:	0.77 kg
Price:	CDN$ 33.50 (US$ 32.60)

ISBN-10:	0393061744
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780393061741
Author:	James M. Tabor
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company New York, USA
Publication Date:	2007
Pages:	400 pp
Size/Dimensions:	9.5 x 6.5
Binding:	Hard Cover

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Forever on the Mountainby James M. Tabor

Forever on the Mountain
by James M. Tabor