Surviving Denali: A Study of Accidents on Mount McKinley, 1903-1990
- ISBN-10
- 0930410483
- ISBN-13
- 9780930410483
- Category
- Mountaineering
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- The Mountaineers Books
- Author
- Jonathan Waterman
Description
The motivation for writing this book is to dispel themyth of Denali as a cakewalk, and to help climbersprepare adequately for polar, high-altitude survival. Bylearning from the past, climbers can avoid similarproblems; this is the goal of Surviving Denali. Watermanpresents an in-depth analysis of altitude medicalproblems, frostbite, ......
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