Though this expedition was one of the worst disasters in the history of American mountaineering, no official investigation of the climb was conducted. Ten days passed before the NPS launched a rescue attempt the climbers froze to death and their bodies were never recovered. Snyder and his team reached the 20,320-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 17,000 feet. From the start the two leaders clashed bad weather and poor communication added to the expedition's troubles. 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. McKinley that claimed the lives of seven young climbers. Tabor attempts to explain what really happened in the 1967 ascent of Mt. In Forever on the Mountain: The Truth behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters, James M. News, Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, Reader's Digest, American Heritage,Barron's, Washington Post, and UltraSport. Norton ( New York, NY), 2007.Ĭontributor to magazines and newspapers, including Time, U.S. WRITINGS:įorever on the Mountain: The Truth behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters, W.W. Former contributing editor to Outside and SKI writer and host, The Great Outdoors (PBS series) cocreator, writer, and executive producer, Journeys to the Center of the World. Hobbies and other interests: Mountain climbing, scuba diving, squash, weight lifting. (honors) Johns Hopkins University, M.F.A.
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