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Forever on the Mountain by James M.
Tabor
Paperback Edition
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 Artic storm. Ten days passed while the storm raged,
yet no rescue was mounted. All seven perished in 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 elements
of controversy, finger-pointing, and cover-up that make this
disaster unlike any other.
Reviews
'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
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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