I'm not a big reader of adventure or mountaineering books, but this book may change that.
Tabor tells the story of twelve men who climbed Denali (aka Mount McKinley) in July of 1967. Only five of them came back; the other seven died on the mountain during one of the most severe storms in Denali's mountaineering history. What happened to those men before they died remains a mystery to this day, and the lessons to be learned from their fate remain mired in finger-pointing and scapegoating. Nevertheless, Tabor has taken a convoluted and controversial set of facts and created a compassionate yet compelling story for his readers.
This book won a National Outdoor Book Award in 2007. A natural companion book? Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer.
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