Forever on the Mountain

Truth Behind One of Mountaineering’s Most Controversial and Mysterious
Disasters

In the summer of 1967, an Arctic hurricane trapped seven veteran climbers at
20,000 feet on Alaska’s Mount McKinley; ten days passed while the storm raged
and despite the availability of massive recourses, no rescue was mounted, and
all seven men died. Reckoning by lives lost, the tragedy was history’s third-
worst mountaineering disaster when it occurred and marked the end of the
golden age of pioneer climbing on McKinley. Through face-to-face interviews
with those involved, unpublished correspondence and diaries the author has
pieced together for the first time the complete, untold story of an expedition
that changed mountaineering.