A Window to Heaven: The Daring First Ascent of Denali: Americas Wildest Peak Dean Patrick
A Window to Heaven: The Daring First Ascent of Denali: Americas Wildest Peak Dean Patrick The captivating and heroic story of Hudson Stuck--an Episcopal priest--and his team's history-making summit…
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A Window to Heaven: The Daring First Ascent of Denali: Americas Wildest Peak Dean Patrick
The captivating and heroic story of Hudson Stuck--an Episcopal priest--and his team's history-making summit of Denali.In 1913, four men made a months-long journey by dog sled to the base of the tallest mountain in North America. Although its height from base to top is actually greater than Everest's, it is Denali's weather, not altitude, that have caused the great majority of fatalities--over a hundred since 1903.Denali experiences weather more severe than the North Pole, with temperatures of forty below zero and winds that howl at 80 to 100 miles per hour for days at a stretch. Several groups had already tried but failed to reach the top of a mountain whose size--occupying 120 square miles of the earth's surface --and position as the Earth's northernmost peak of more than 6,000 meters elevation make it one of the world's deadliest mountains.
But in 1913 none of this