
Forever on the Mountain
The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
James M. Tabor(Author)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 17. August 2007
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-0-393-06174-1 (ISBN)
Description
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. The bodies were never recovered. And, 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, gambling-and losing-on one of the world's starkest and stormiest peaks. 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. James M. Tabor draws on previously untapped sources: personal interviews with survivors and those involved in the aftermath, unpublished diaries and letters, and government documents. He consults not only mountaineers but also experts in disciplines including meteorology, forensics, and psychology. What results is the first full account of the tragedy that ended a golden age in mountaineering.
This book begins as a classic tale of men against nature, gambling-and losing-on one of the world's starkest and stormiest peaks. 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. James M. Tabor draws on previously untapped sources: personal interviews with survivors and those involved in the aftermath, unpublished diaries and letters, and government documents. He consults not only mountaineers but also experts in disciplines including meteorology, forensics, and psychology. What results is the first full account of the tragedy that ended a golden age in mountaineering.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
Maps; 8 pages of illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-06174-1 (9780393061741)
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James M. Tabor
Forever on the Mountain
The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
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06/2008
W. W. Norton & Company
€17.49
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Person
James M. Tabor authored the award-winning Forever on the Mountain and best-selling Blind Descent. A creator of the History Channel's Journey to the Center of the World, he has written for Time, Smithsonian, Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. He lives in Waitsfield, Vermont.