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Title: Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley by Art Davidson ISBN: 0-89886-687-1 Publisher: Mountaineers Books Pub. Date: December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Book!
Comment: This book is incredible. You cannot put it down. A great gripping TRUE story!
Rating: 5
Summary: WOW!
Comment: I bought this book because I wanted to get a feel for high altitude climbing though I have no interest in climbing for myself. Geez! I got the picture. I'm still blown away by the story of what happened on the mountain. But, thankfully, blown away, only in a metaphorical sense...
I had a friend who was a high altitude climber who told me about a friend climbing in the Himalayas. The guy went out during a blizzard at high altitude to relieve himself and was never seen again. My friend said,"He was blown into the stratosphere". I never understood that kind of language until I read this book.
It's an incredible story of survival right up there with the story of the voyage of the crew of the Endurance.
The writing is awfully good for a mountain climber!
Rating: 4
Summary: A COURAGEOUS AND HISTORIC FIRST...
Comment: It is clear from the beginning of this book that trouble was looming on the horizon for these intrepid, but somewhat reckless, climbers. The loss early on of one of their comrades to a fall into a crevasse was predictable. How they could think of walking unroped, on a glacier that they knew was ridden with crevasses, is almost unbelievable. This was due, no doubt, to youthful inexperience and a lack of leadership necessary to set the parameters of what would be acceptable in terms of safety. These factors combined were to cost them dearly. It was not until near the end of their forty two day stay on the mountain, that they coalesced into a team.
Notwithstanding the sheer recklessness of their initial, bumbling efforts at a winter ascent of Mt. McKinley, the fact remains that they did achieve the first such summit, no mean feat any time of year, but almost inconceivable in the dead of winter. Coming off the summit, their thermometer recorded the temperature at a quite bone chilling minus fifty eight degrees.
Caught in a whiteout on their descent, however, the three summiteers were forced to dig a snow cave, where they were were to spend endless days, in weather which saw temperatures plummet to an almost mind boggling minus one hundred and forty eight degrees with the wind chill factor, hence the name of the book. That they could survive this, is a testament to their fortitude.
In their snow cave, it was a relatively toasty minus thirty five below. That snow cave was the only thing that stood between them and certain death. With virtually no food, frost bitten, and suffering from disorientation due to the altitude, they waited out the storm and lived to tell the tale.
This gripping chronicle, of the forty two days they spent on the highest and coldest mountain in North America, is a classic in mountaineering literature and one of the best books on McKinley climbs. Those who love this genre will certainly enjoy this book. It is made all the more interesting by the author's new afterword, which gives a retrospective of what happened to all those who participated in the first winter ascent of Mt. McKinley.
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Title: Touching the Void : The Harrowing First-Person Account of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson ISBN: 0060916540 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Surviving Denali: A Study of Accidents on Mount McKinley 1903-1990 by Jonathan Waterman ISBN: 0930410483 Publisher: Amer Alpine Club Pub. Date: December, 1991 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Denali's West Buttress: A Climber's Guide to Mount McKinley's Classic Route by Colby Coombs, Bradford Washburn ISBN: 0898865166 Publisher: Mountaineers Books Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: In the Shadow of Denali: Life and Death on Alaska's Mt. McKinley by Jonathan Waterman ISBN: 1558217266 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Mountain of My Fear: Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative: Two Mountaineering Classics in One Volume by David Roberts, Jon Krakauer ISBN: 0898862701 Publisher: Mountaineers Books Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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