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Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Norton
Category: EBooks
List Price: $18.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 13662
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.52209798
ASIN: B000VRBAXI
Publication Date: June 20, 2007
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Product Description
"In Forever on the Mountain, James Tabor has taken on America's most tragic and confounding mountaineering disaster and reconstructed it with a level of intensity and detail that makes the reader feel like a member of that ill-starred expedition to Alaska's Mount McKinley (Denali) in 1967. As he negotiates his way through egotism, sabotage, freak weather, and staggering courage, Tabor maintains a cool head and, even more importantly in this case, an open heart. "This is a maddening, terrifying book, and also a deeply compassionate one." --John Vaillant, author of The Golden Spruce"
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 Great Suprise April 17, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am one of those people that is always in the middle of eight books. I start a book, somewhere along the way I pick something else up, I get busy. this happens to me all the time. Some days I get hours to read other days just minutes - but I read everyday. truly one of my favorite things to do.
This book was something I stumbled on when I got my Kindle as a sample, it is something that is completely out of my normal realm. I am not an outdoor person, not a climber and have never read or really seen anything on the subject.
But from the first page I was completely sucked in and I couldn't put it down. extremely well written, fascinating story and extremely informative to a layman like me who had zero understanding of anything about mountaineering going in.
Chilling and Wonderful! January 16, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Tabor has put together a beautiful, extremely balanced account of a tragedy that includes the objective, the subjective, and quite tastefully, the emotions of the survivors. I read it once, and then had to read it again. The story deserved to be told again, and from a person far removed from the story. Tabor does an incredible job of piecing together an investigation some 40 years later. Tabor's descriptions made me want to, as Snyder described, put my parka on in my living room. Having climbed successfully to the top of Denali, I always counted myself lucky. This book shows just how truly lucky I was. A brilliant work!
 Forever on the Mountain October 19, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Enjoyed the book quite a bit. Thought the author tried to be objective but his appraisals did make themselves known. However, his bias was even-handed and therefore gave a pretty fair picture. Felt the comparison with Everest was not warranted and should not have been brought into the book.
Preconceived opinions? October 17, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
While browsing my local bookstore, I saw a book with a title that left no question in my mind about the subject: an event that happened 40 years ago and I could now read about the truth surrounding that tragedy on Mt. McKinley: Forever on the Mountain, by James Tabor. In the summer of 1967 I was full of dreams and anticipation as to what my second season at Mt. McKinley National Park might bring: new adventures, amazing sights, the trill of just the chance to view that magical mountain, Mt. McKinley. At the same time I was living my dreams, another group of young men were about to begin their own adventures and dreams, and attempt to summit the great mountain. As I read on, I realized sometimes in life no matter how well we plan and organize, things happen; attitudes and egos do not mix; politics and bureaucracy diminish the chance for success. In this book, these problems are brought forth and analyzed with a very straight forward approach, giving the public an unbiased solution of what happened and didn't happen in the most tragic disaster in North American climbing history. I thought it was a great read, especially having lived at McKinley during the event, and is important for anyone who has preconceived opinions about what actually took place on the mountain.
Gary Smith
Very well researched, gripping account of one of mountaineering's greatest tragedies October 10, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is impeccably research and presents a very controversial subject in an unbiased manner. Tabor does about as good a job as could be done at presenting the facts, providing analysis, and drawing conclusions, while giving all sides the benefit of the doubt.
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