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Forever on the Mountain

Forever on the Mountain

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In Forever on the Mountain James Tabor tells the story of a failed 1967 McKinley climb, weaving together new facts to elucidate the causes of one of climbing's worst disasters.

  • Author: James Tabor
  • Softcover; 400 pages; black-and-white photos
  • Norton & Company, Inc.; copyright 2007

In the summer of 1967, an Arctic hurricane trapped 7 veteran climbers, members of Joe Wilcox's 12-man expedition, at 20,000 ft. on Alaska's Mount McKinley. Ten days passed while the storm raged. Despite the availability of massive resources, no rescue was mounted, and all 7 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. 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.

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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