Spotlights the impressive array of flora and fauna found in the Denali National Park and Preserve, formerly known as Mount McKinley National Park, in Alaska.
the truth behind one of mountaineering's most controversial and mysterious disasters
Tabor, James M
2007
Chronicles the events surrounding a 1967 expedition in which twelve men became trapped at 20,000 feet on Alaska's Mount McKinley and the controversial decision not to undertake a rescue mission until it was too late.
Seventeen-year-old Sarah hopes that accompanying her father on an expedition to climb Mount McKinley will help to bridge the gap that has widened between them since her parents' divorce.
The author recounts his climb of Mount McKinley in 1967, the first-ever winter ascent, during which a storm dropped temperatures to negative 148 degrees with windchill, gravely endangering the expedition.
Seventeen-year-old Sarah hopes that accompanying her father on an expedition to climb Mount McKinley will help to bridge the gap that has widened between them since her parents' divorce.
one woman's story of true courage, death-defying survival, and her quest for the summit
Kocour, Ruth Anne
1998
Chronicles the experiences of a team of mountain climbers who were trapped on Mount McKinley in Alaska during one of the worst storms to hit the mountain in the twentieth century.
Eighty-eight-year-old explorer Norman Vaughan revisits the Queen Maude Mountains in Antarctica to climb the mountain named for him 65 years earlier by Admiral Richard E. Byrd; twelve-year-old adventurer Merrick Johnston becomes the youngest person ever to scale Denali, North America's highest peak.
