The White Death

Fülszöveg

NATURE/ADVENTURE
"A riveting book that uses the deaths of five climbers as a means to
explore avalanches, personal responsibility, the science of snow and the
ethics of extreme sports." -THE OH EG ON IAN
In the summer of 1969, five Montana men aged eighteen to twenty-
two began making plans for a feat no one had yet accomplished:
they wanted to scale the forbiddingly sheer north face of Mt.
Cleveland, Glacier National Park's tallest mountain, and they want-
ed to do it in winter. Park rangers and seasoned climbers called the
plan everything from foolhardy to outright suicidal, but soon after
Christmas, the five climbers began their expedition. Shortly thereafter,
they were killed by an avalanche so heavy during a winter so severe that
their bodies were not discovered until late the following June. The White
Death is the story of that fated climb and the astonishingly selfless and
heroic rescue effort that ensued.
Like Peter Matthiessen and John McPhee, McKay... Tovább

Fülszöveg

NATURE/ADVENTURE
"A riveting book that uses the deaths of five climbers as a means to
explore avalanches, personal responsibility, the science of snow and the
ethics of extreme sports." -THE OH EG ON IAN
In the summer of 1969, five Montana men aged eighteen to twenty-
two began making plans for a feat no one had yet accomplished:
they wanted to scale the forbiddingly sheer north face of Mt.
Cleveland, Glacier National Park's tallest mountain, and they want-
ed to do it in winter. Park rangers and seasoned climbers called the
plan everything from foolhardy to outright suicidal, but soon after
Christmas, the five climbers began their expedition. Shortly thereafter,
they were killed by an avalanche so heavy during a winter so severe that
their bodies were not discovered until late the following June. The White
Death is the story of that fated climb and the astonishingly selfless and
heroic rescue effort that ensued.
Like Peter Matthiessen and John McPhee, McKay Jenkins infuses a
riveting narrative with a breathtaking expanse of relevant information.
Part meditation upon mountains and their climbers, part dissertation on
the many facets of snow, part geology, part folklore, and part history of
avalanches and rescues, this marvelously written book is ultimately a
brutal yet elegant homage to the indomitable spirits found in nature and
in those who strive hardest to hear its remotest whispers.
"In the style of Norman MacLean's best-selling exploration of a notorious
Montana forest fire in Young Men and Fire, Jenkins combines the best
of a study of history and causes for avalanche disasters with a gripping
story." -THE SEATTLE TIMES Vissza