Mount McKinley: The Pioneer Climbs

by Terris Moore

Book Overview

* Author participated in McKinley's third ascent. * Contains maps and historic photos * Includes vast literature references and a glossary of mountaineering terms The natives called it Denali, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898860210
• ISBN13: 9780898860214
• Release Date: April 1981
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

best denali book ever written

From the first sightings by Russian and British explorers from Cook Inlet, through the first attempts, and finally, success, Dr. Moore, past president of the University of Alaska detailed the history of discovering and climbing America's highest mountain. I simply couldn't put it down. You won't believe the interview with Billy Taylor, one of the sourdoughs who mushed from Fairbanks in 1910 and climbed to the top with a thermos of coffee and a sack of donuts, and erected a 14' spruce pole on the north peak. Then they simply hung out for the summer and mined for gold near the base. True or false? You'll have to find out for yourself.