Forever on the Mountain

In 1967, a twelve-man expedition led by the young Joe Wilcox faced a harrowing fate when seven of its members became stranded at 20,000 feet on Mount McKinley amidst a fierce Arctic storm, resulting in their tragic deaths after ten days without rescue. In his gripping narrative, James M. Tabor revisits this historic climbing disaster, exploring the controversies, accusations, and hidden truths surrounding what remains one of the most tragic events in American climbing history.