![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. What results is the first full account of the tragedy that ended a golden age in mountaineering. He consults not only mountaineers but also experts in disciplines including meteorology, forensics, and psychology. Tabor draws on previously untapped sources: personal interviews with survivors and those involved in the aftermath, unpublished diaries and letters, and government documents. Reckoning by lives lost, it was history's third-worst mountaineering disaster when it occurred―but elements of finger pointing, incompetence, and cover-up make this disaster unlike any other. ![]() This book begins as a classic tale of men against nature, gambling―and losing―on one of the world's starkest and stormiest peaks. '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. And, for reasons that have remained cloudy, there was no proper official investigation of the catastrophe. Ten days passed with no rescue attempt, while more than half an expedition was stranded and dying at 20,000 feet during a vicious Arctic storm. In July 1967, seven young men―members of Joe Wilcox's twelve-man expedition―died on Mt. ![]()
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