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Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and...
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by James M. Tabor
Sales Rank: 57410
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Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton June 2, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393331962
ISBN-13: 978-0393331967
Product Dimensions:
8.3 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
Tabor's exhaustive look at the doomed 1967 expedition to scale Alaska's Mt. McKinley is an often gripping, detailed account of the infamous climb that remains controversial. Only five of the 12-man team survived the ascent to the 20,320-foot summit, making it one of the deadliest mountaineering disasters in North America. The journey was fraught with tension from the beginning: the National Park Service (NPS) required a group of nine men, led by Joe Wilcox, to merge with a three-member party of Coloradoans, led by Howard Snyder. Wilcox and Snyder clashed almost immediately. Both men survived and went on to retell the trip in books: Snyder in his 1973 version that mostly blamed Wilcox's leadership; Wilcox's account in 1981 cited an overpowering storm as the culprit in the deaths. Tabor (who hosted PBS's Great Outdoors) shows that the NPS was very slow to react and might have saved the climbers with quicker response. His writing about the brutal difficulties of climbing Mt. McKinley in subfreezing temperatures with hurricane-like wind in blizzard conditions is breathtaking, although he lapses into minutiae and repeats details, particularly regarding the accident's investigation. His profiles of the expedition's survivors 40 years later make for a strong conclusion to the book. (July)
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Product Review
'I thought I knew the essential story of the Wilcox party disaster, but Jim Tabor's new book has undercut all my preconceptions. A shrewd and penetrating investigation of one of climbing's greatest tragedies, Forever on the Mountain grapples with the most fundamental questions of risk and responsibility.' -- David Roberts, author of On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined
A maddening, terrifying book, and also a deeply compassionate one. -- John Vaillant, author of The Golden Spruce
Forever on the Mountain, James M. Tabor's tale of the mysterious fate of a group of expert climbers who disappeared on Mount McKinley in 1967, was awarded the 2007 Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize. ""The era of mountaineering Tabor describes -- just a generation ago -- is so different from today's light and fast style, that it's almost impossible to imagine ourselves back there," says Book Festival jury member Dougald MacDonald. "This book helps us understand what it was like." -- GRAND PRIZE, BANFF 2007 MOUNTAIN BOOK & FILM FESTIVAL
He tells a gripping story, and he tells it with authority and with compassion for its victims. -- Clint Willis, author of The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation
Lays bare some of the crucial issues facing serious mountain expeditions, then and now: exuberance, incompatability or mutual support, blame, error, or accident, and the relentless nature of the mountain, its weather and its wilderness. James Tabor's resolve and sustained engagement, his determination to uncover the truth, and his lucid and consistent style of writing whilst exploring and including a wide range of source material, make this book, we believe, a touchstone for the future. -- 2007 BOARDMAN TASKER PRIZE, Second Place
So compelling that as the doomed climbers ascend into a white hell, you'll find yourself shivering—and praying—with them. -- David Baron, author of The Beast in the Garden
Tabor's unflinching exhumationilluminates its grim clash of personalities with clarity and a long overdue objectivity. -- Peter Potterfield, author of In the Zone: Epic Survival Stories from the Mountaineering World
This harrowing tale of the 1967 catastrophe on the slopes of Mt. McKinley will leave you breathless! -- Gay Salisbury, co-author of The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
This is a comprehensive, necessary and valuable book. (James Perrin, author of The Villain: A Portrait of Don Whillans) -- James Perrin, author of The Villain: A Portrait of Don Whillans
What actually happened and why so many died in one of North America's worst mountaineering disasters is still debated to this day. James Tabor's Forever on the Mountain sheds a new light on the tragedy. In addition to his extensive investigative work, Tabor is an outstanding story teller, and once started, this is a book that is hard to put down. -- 2007 NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD
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