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Norton New York , NY , Contributor to magazines and newspapers, including Time, U. Tabor attempts to explain what really happened in the ascent of Mt. McKinley that claimed the lives of seven young climbers. Because National Park Service NPS regulations required that mountaineering expeditions had to include a minimum of four members, a three-man team from Colorado, led by Howard Snyder, had to join a nine-man team led by Joe Wilcox.

From the start the two leaders clashed; bad weather and poor communication added to the expedition's troubles. Snyder and his team reached the 20,foot summit—the highest in North America —on July 15th and then began their descent; five men from Wilcox's group summited three days later, but by then a raging blizzard had trapped seven men on the mountain who were camped in two locations above 17, feet.

Ten days passed before the NPS launched a rescue attempt; the climbers froze to death and their bodies were never recovered.

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Though this expedition was one of the worst disasters in the history of American mountaineering, no official investigation of the climb was conducted. While Snyder and his men survived, Wilcox was one of only two members of his group to make it off the mountain alive. Both men later published accounts of the disaster, with Snyder laying most of the blame on errors made by Wilcox while Wilcox blamed the catastrophic storm.

Relying on these first-person accounts as well as on unpublished correspondence, diaries, documents, and interviews with the survivors, Tabor reconstructs the events of the expedition and points out where mistakes were made.