Minus 148 Degrees: First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley, Anniversary Edition (Paperback)

from nancynova

A re-publication; an expedition sets out to climb Mt Mckinley (Denali) in Alaska in the winter. Only three of them "summit", then are caught in a storm, the waiting party of four separates after they think the other three surely are dead. In the end all are rescued, although the party lost one ma...

from breic

Good, but only average for the genre. The climbers themselves seem a bit lukewarm about the whole thing—not surprising given the grim difficulties and disasters they face. They reach the summit in the dark, where they can't see anything except detritus from other climbers. What's the point? > She...

from dypaloh

"Altitude was heckling my mind." Not nice. But the author and his companions, on an expedition to accomplish the first wintertime ascent of Mt. McKinley, managed to keep their wits when failing would have killed them. Minus 148° is that story. For the first two-thirds of the book, the author's ac...

from TheSmarch

One of the better mountaineering books I have read from the NatGeo list. Most mountaineering books are full of jargon and descriptions that are incomprehensible to a lay person. This one is told simply but descriptively and the story and progress are easily followed.