Forever on the Mountain by James M. Tabor

A former Washington, D.C., police officer and a lifelong adventure enthusiast, Tabor has written for Time, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Outside magazine, where he was a contributing editor.

What results is the first full account of the tragedy that ended a golden age in mountaineering. Tabor is the bestselling author of THE DEEP ZONE, BLIND DESCENT and FOREVER ON THE MOUNTAIN, and a winner of the O. He consults not only mountaineers but also experts in disciplines including meteorology, forensics, and psychology. 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. Tabor draws on previously untapped sources: personal interviews with survivors and those involved in the aftermath, unpublished diaries and letters, and government documents.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. Tabor’s last book was the international award-winning Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering’s Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters. This book begins as a classic tale of men against nature, gambling―and losing―on one of the world's starkest and stormiest peaks. And, for reasons that have remained cloudy, there was no proper official investigation of the catastrophe. Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award Grand Prize Winner, Banff Mountain Book Festival '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-. Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineerings Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters. 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. Forever on the Mountain : The Truth Behind One of Mountaineerings Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters Paperback / softback. In July 1967, seven young men―members of Joe Wilcox's twelve-man expedition―died on Mt.

Forever on the Mountain by James M. Tabor