In July 1967, seven young men-members of a twelve-man expedition
- died on Mt. Mc Kinley. Ten days passed with no rescue attempt, while more than half an expedition was stranded & dying at 20, 000 feet during a vicious Arctic storm. The bodies were never recovered. &, for reasons that have remained cloudy, there was no proper official investigation of the catastrophe. This book begins as a classic tale of men against nature. Reckoning by lives lost, it was history`s third-worst mountaineering disaster when it occurred but elements of finger pointing, incompetence & cover-up make this disaster unlike any other. James M. Tabor draws on previously untapped sources & he consults not only mountaineers but also experts. What results is the first full account of the tragedy that ended a golden age in mountaineering.