Just as good as Into Thin Air .... A spellbinder."- Owen Sound Sun-Times"The fairest, most comprehensive account of [this episode] we're likely to see.... Tabor analyzes this debacle with the doggedness of an investigative reporter and the technical knowledge of an experienced climber."- Wall Street JournalIn 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, were stranded on Alaska's Mount McKinley in a vicious arctic storm. All seven perished on what remains the most tragic expedition in American climbing history. Revisiting the event in the tradition of Norman McLean's Young Men and Fire , James M. Tabor uncovers elements of controversy, finger-pointing, and cover-up that combine to make this disaster unlike any other.