Surviving Denali: A Study of Accidents on Mount McKinley 1903-1990 - Softcover

Waterman, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0930410483 ISBN 13: 9780930410483

Publisher: The AAC Press (American Alpine Club), 1997

Synopsis

* Helps expose long-time accident patterns so future climbers can avoid repeating these climbing mistakes on Denali* Waterman has worked as a climbing ranger on Denali and speaks from first-hand rescue experience
In his preface, Dr. Peter Hackett writes of Jonathan Waterman's motivations for writing Surviving Denali, "The motivation for writing this book is to dispel the myth of Denali as a cakewalk, and to help climbers prepare adequately for polar, high-altitude survival. By learning from the past, climbers can avoid similar problems; this is the goal of Surviving Denali."
Waterman presents an in-depth analysis of altitude medical problems, frostbite, avalanche and fall injuries, and deaths on Denali in order to point out the mistakes that may have been made and methods that might have been used to prevent them. In further chapters Waterman also covers how to prepare properly for Denali.

About this title

Review:

Is the accident report the highest form of mountaineering literature? Sure not; yet of four recent books on Denali, Jonathan Waterman's Surviving Denali is by far the most engrossing. (John Hart Summit magazine)

About this edition

• Publisher: The AAC Press (American Alpine Club)
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0930410483
• ISBN 13: 9780930410483
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264