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A Window to Heaven: The Daring First Ascent of Denali: America's Wildest Peak

Patrick Dean
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The captivating and heroic story of Hudson Stuck—an Episcopalian 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. 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. 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. But in 1913 none of this mattered to Hudson Stuck, a fifty-year old Episcopal priest, Harry...
Anno:
2021
Casa editrice:
Pegasus Books
Lingua:
english
File:
MOBI , 7.43 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2021
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