Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering’s Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
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- ISBN13: 9780393331967
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Winner of the 2007 Banff Mountain Festival Book Awards Grand Prize (The Phyllis & Don Munday Award): “A riveting account of a long-ago mountaineering disaster.”—Time In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-ancient Joe Wilcox, were stranded on Alaska’s Mount McKinley in a vicious arctic storm. All seven corroded on what remains the most tragic expedition in American climbing history. Revisiting the event in the tradition of Norman Maclean’s Young Men and Fire, James M. Tabor uncovers fundamentals of controversy, finger-pointing, and take in-up that combine to make this disaster unlike any additional.
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I really like adventure books and this one is pretty excellent, but, for me, it’s not a “can’t place it down” book. In fact, I have not yet finished it. I reflect perhaps I’ve been spoiled by Krakauer’s Into Thin Air.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Unlike Krakauer’s “Into Thin Air” masterpiece which is the inevitable alpine disaster tale comparison here, Tabor belabors a veritable mountain of details in fashioning this non-compelling analysis of a Denali disaster. The actual tale itself is an appealing one at its core and Tabor covers a lot of ground, but never comes close to developing that edge of the seat excitement-that what happens next feeling-of fantastic disaster post-mortems. There are appealing fundamentals here-his visits with the main participants many years later are done reasonably well-but at the end this is too long and inartfully written.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Loved the book reasonably a bit. Thought the leader tried to be objective but his appraisals did make themselves known. But, his bias was even-handed and therefore gave a pretty honest picture. Felt the comparison with Everest was not warranted and should not have been brought into the book.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This is a pre pointer review.
I just hear of the book and ordered it
BECAUSE I was climbing on the South Face of Mt. McKinley when this
book takes place on the Northern side.
I remember being locked in a two man tent for 10 days during the huge storm. After I read the book I’ll review more.
The expedition that I co led with Boyd Everett climbed Cassin RIdge, South Face Direct and the West Buttress. Our climb was written up in AAC Journal and Appalachia.
Will Phillips, will@rexonline.org
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Although this was an appealing tale, and I knew nothing about it before reading this book, I would never read another tale by this leader. I was going to quote some of the flowery prose he used, but when I finished the book, I threw it away – and I NEVER throw away books. He was so interested in building arcane relations to additional expeditions or philosophers, etc., that the tale got lost in the telling. I’m going to read the additional two books written by people who were there, so at least he piqued my interest. I just wish he was a more coherent leader, it was a well researched tale that needed to be told – by a name else.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5